There are reports that claim that Trump’s administration is considering drone strikes against drug cartels in Mexico. If this ever happened, How do you think Mexico should respond and what precedent will this have in the rest of the region?
There are reports that claim that Trump’s administration is considering drone strikes against drug cartels in Mexico. If this ever happened, How do you think Mexico should respond and what precedent will this have in the rest of the region?
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One thing Mexico CANNOT do is declare war. That would give Trump the legal power to put every Mexican and Mexican-American in a concentration camp.
Mr.President, that children’s hospital has cartel members in it!
No sovereign country can accept that.
The way I see it the best way for Mexico would be to get ahead and offer cooperation with the USA in striking the cartels. That way they would have some control of what’s happening, could use it as a bargaining chip for tariffs, and trump would be happy to save face.
There are 3 other options the way I see it, and they are all bad.
Mexico could strike down American drones. I don’t know if they even have the capability with stealth and all, and even if they did they would never be able stop all American firepower right in their border.
They could also retaliate diplomatically and economically, closing the embassy, imposing tariffs, and so on. Wouldn’t be great for the Mexican economy
Or they can make some meaningless strongly lettered statement condemning the USA with no retaliation at all, basically giving the USA free reign to do whatever they want in Mexico
If they were a clear target, I would help and assign a lot of places to be hit by the drones. But geography is the point here, you cannot bomb highly populated areas, probably border areas, airfields, vessels, tunnels.
Trump is already overreaching. Just wait him out. Don’t give him any propaganda victories by resisting. His Senate allies are already walking sideways because of tariffs. Midterms are next year. He could be handicapped soon.
The smart thing would be to follow through and take those cartels out if the strikes were effective in eliminating leadership. Knowing that the demand would continue the cartel might be reformed anyway. This would be more about reclaiming certain areas than slowing drug trafficking.
Lol, this sounds like someone trying to overreact to a problem they’re largely responsible (or at least partially responsible) for creating themselves
Like, 70-90% of guns found in Mexico have their origin traced back to the US, and most drugs produced by these cartels are exported to the US due to the high demand for them that exists in the US
If the US wanted to stop cartels, launching programs to end the habits of this junkhead population or being much more strict with controlling where these guns are going to could help tremendously. They have the best police and intelligence service in the world, I don’t know why this should be a problem.
But I guess it’s difficult to do this when selling them guns is so lucrative for their corporations.
The drones would just change cartel leadership, so long as there is demand for drugs there will be a supplier ready to step in.
Mexico has no influence in the region. So probably will be the same argument they use back and forth every political election.
The US has been conducting military and covert ops in Mexico for decades and helped disappear thousands of Mexicans, so Mexican sovereignty is already nonexistent as far as the US is concerned. There are also provisions of the Bucareli Treaty from 1923 between the US and Mexico that have never been made public, and some scholars speculate that it allows for limited US military incursions into Mexico under specific circumstances.
The last time the US threatened to directly invade Mexico was about a hundred years ago. Since Mexico was essentially defenseless, President Elías Calles ordered that all the oil wells in the country be blown up in the event of an invasion. This was an effective deterrent.
Yeah, those reports are literally Elon Musk saying it.
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I really don’t know how they should respond. On one hand, if they cooperate, they might be able to reduce civilian casualties. But on the other hand, what the U.S. would be doing would violate Mexico’s sovereignty and shouldn’t be accepted, otherwise, it would set a precedent, and they’d keep doing it not just in Mexico, but in other countries as well.
If that happens, I just know we’d receive a lot of refugees. We’d probably just condemn the actions, and Guatemala would likely help with humanitarian aid from the UN and similar efforts.
Mexico will probably report the United States to international organizations and ask them to condemn the United States
I don’t think Mexico should respond military and I don’t think they will either
They morally have the right to do so, but just the practicality of it seems impossible given the power differential
In fact, I think if the United States insists on doing this, the Mexican government might get involved and try to coordinate the strikes so that they only target the cartels and limit collateral damage.
Maybe I’m wrong, but in the long-term is removing the cartels completely a negative from a Mexican perspective?
Hypothetically, if it were possible.
That clown has enough problems now with the rest of the world, I doubt he will do it.
How we should respond if they start droning cartels? With cheers and gratefulness.
This gets reported a lot, but apparently, some kind of agreement was signed recently that assures the US would respect Mexican sovereignty, but demanded greater action from Mexico. I know that this is worth fuck all at the end of the day, but people need to remember how catastrophic it would be if the US used direct military action in the country.
I don’t mean to put down these countries, but Mexico is not Syria, it’s not Afghanistan, Somalia or any place like that. It’s the US’s neighbor and largest trading partner. There are close to 40 million people of Mexican descent in the US. Mexico is a regional power with a decent amount of pull on the world stage. There would be consequences.
Another thing to keep in mind, is who is saying this. Not too long ago, I posted here about how the US is drawing up plans for an invasion of Panama, but people pointed out that the US likely has war plans for most countries, so the fact that they are considering airstrikes shouldn’t be too surprising.
Mexico should respond with Drone strikes against cocaine buyers in Miami.
As Mexican I have no idea but declaring a war to your neighboor country and one of your biggest commercial partners is a bad plan.
That’s false.
Mexico will do nothing, they’ll probably protest, but in the end they’ll do nothing because they’re impotent.
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Nothing is going to happen in Mexico, at least not anytime soon. No one is going to be put in internment camps especially not Mexican-Americans, this isn’t the 1940s.
The USA is in serious trouble right now with tariffs, economy and our stock market.
Americans are holding mass protests everywhere pissed off and angry with this current administration.
Trump has destroyed the relationships we had with our closest allies of Canada, the UK and EU, while LITERALLY siding with Russia. The turd is enabling Israel’s genocide in Palestine while the UN rejects it.
China keeps saying they are ready for “any war” with the United States. They are not backing down from this tariff war as the USA is gravely underestimating China.
Bottomline… the USA has bigger things to worry about right now than Mexican cartels despite the orange turd’s rhetoric.
Tell me one, just one instance of a conflict with a well organized militia, perfectly blended with the civilian population, and with a lot of resources and motivation has improved because of a US drone strike.
Like one instance, even if the improvement is only for US-only politics & economics.
Fuck your opinions, a clean-cut black or white before and after case. Something like: “After targeted drone strikes, the conflict with _____ de-escalated/American troops took control/that militia disappeared?stituation improved by __ factors“.
After that example, I’m willing to discuss that is a feasible idea, in the meantime: it’s just fighting the 1,000 heads hydra, but with a sharper knife.
I don’t know about the government, but if that happens a lot of American tourists in Cancun or Acapulco are quickly going to find out why cartels are world-renowned by their hospitality. And it will only get worse from there.
Mexico military capabilities are a joke.
The mexican government has the duty to retaliate since they’re targeting one of their biggest allies
They should take the opportunity to get rid of these thieves and murderers. They won’t though, many people make a living in crime. All these people have friends and family. Mexico will never get rid of the cartels themselves. I don’t see the problem ever getting fixed. You’ll get just excuses and finger pointing. They’ll keep living in a place where you can get extorted, or kidnapped + murdered for having a business or having money.
That would be straight up war with Mexico. Unacceptable, utterly appalling. Period.
I’d bet most Brazilians from different parts of the whole political spectrum wouldn’t like it.
We’d be watching absolutely thunderstruck. The South America would be watching it closely.
Try to invade South America, let’s say Venezuela or Colombia, bam: USA invasion to get oil and rare earth minerals in Amazon Forest until proven otherwise. BAM. DEFCON 2. WW3.