No. I prefer to see our special forces wipe the floor with the keystone cartel.
They are a JV Team.
Yours is the sort of hubris that will get Americans killed. The largest concentration of American expats in Mexico is in Guadalajara, Jalisco, which happens to be where one of the most violent Mexican cartels, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, is headquartered. What you don’t seem to understand is these aren’t illiterate goat herders we’d be fighting. These cartels have recruited men
that we trained! The CJNG’s military wing is allegedly headed by former U.S. special operators (Navy SEALs and Delta Force). They are extremely violent, and have access to virtually unlimited resources. (That’s why they can hire a trained army and recruit from among the best soldiers on the planet from numerous countries, including the USA.) One of the Sinaloa Cartel’s five U.S. distribution hubs is in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where the U.S. Army Special Operations Command is headquartered. If we can’t get rid of these people operating under the nose of Delta Force in North Carolina, what makes you think we can eliminate them 1,300 miles from the U.S. border surrounded by 88,000 American hostages in Jalisco or in the mountains surrounding Culiacan, Sinaloa?
To show you how dumb we are, we channeled billions of dollars in aid to combat the cartels through Mexico’s former Secretary of Public Security (the Mexican equivalent of the Director of the FBI), who was under the thumb of the Sinaloa Cartel and is now doing a 38-year stretch in a U.S. prison. Basically, we helped a man under the control of one cartel take out his patron’s opponents. It’s like something straight out of
Queen of the South. Allegations of corruption extend to at least the last two Mexican presidents prior to the current one, Claudia Sheinbaum. Even if she isn’t corrupt, you can bet that people under her are or soon will be. The Taliban never had that advantage, and recall that they killed thousands of Americans, including some of the best special forces soldiers on Earth. We lost 30 Americans, including 22 SEALs, in a single incident in which the goat herders shot down a CH-47 Chinook using an RPG. The cartels won’t be using RPGs. They have SAMs and MANPADs. It’s easy to start a war, not so easy to exit one to the point where you can say, “Mission accomplished!” Talk about a forever war. Get ready.
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