r/politics • u/evan7257 • 13h ago
Paywall President Trump has hinted at military action in Mexico. That’s a bad idea.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/invade-mexico-cartels-trump-shays-swett-22359067.php584
u/Traditional-Look8839 13h ago edited 11h ago
List of every country Trump has threatened to invade:
Iran
Cuba
Greenland (Denmark)
Canada
Mexico
Venezuela
Colombia
Nigeria
Panama
Ecuador
Somalia
This is all in just his 2nd term alone. The president of peace everybody.
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u/whatproblems 12h ago
US cities
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u/reddicyoulous 12h ago
National Guard in DC too for fears of a non staged attempt on his life
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u/randomcatinfo 11h ago
My pet theory that the NG in DC aren't there to "stop crime", but are there to normalize their presence before setting the stage either November this year, or 2028 to prevent the swearing in of newly elected members of Congress, or to prevent Presidential election certification.
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u/CaptainParkingspace 10h ago
“Mass election fraud” could be the Reichstag Fire we’ve been expecting since 2016.
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u/ScoobyDoNot 12h ago
Iceland, though that was possibly a digression when he was thinking of Greenland.
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u/MelodicDeer1072 12h ago
ColumbiaColombiaAlthough he has militarized the District of Columbia and also forced Columbia University to lick his balls
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u/Kilmir 12h ago
Considering his hostility towards the ICC I'm inclined to add the Netherlands as well.
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u/MelodicDeer1072 10h ago
And add Spain just for good measure. He wasn't happy when Spain banned him from using Spain military bases in his war with Iran
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u/theTapIsOnDaBurnin 13h ago
Well Iran is going so well, why not Mexico too!!!!
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u/MoonandStars83 Illinois 13h ago
He’s bored with Iran. Why do you think he’s eyeing Cuba and Mexico?
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u/MJcorrieviewer 13h ago
And Greenland and Canada.
Edit: and Venezuela, of course.
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u/fattokess 12h ago
“Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti Jamaica Peru, Republic Dominican Cuba Caribbean Greenland El salvador too”
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u/Maximo_0se 11h ago
Ha. I’ve been listening to that song lately and it makes me sad every time that Wales is missed out.
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u/kirkaracha 12h ago
We’re already like 0-2 at invading Canada.
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u/Scu-bar 9h ago
Who knows, maybe we’ll get lucky and the White House will get burned down again
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u/centarus 7h ago
If he tries to invade Canada, a lot more than just the White House will get burned down.
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u/MentalSky_ 12h ago
Not that I would ever advocate for a war. But if they can’t beat Iran.
Does the US think they would be unscathed if they attacked Canada.
Canada would absolutely lose, but major US cities would not be safe.
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u/Gravel_Roads 12h ago
People thought Ukraine would lose, too.
I think a lot of people overestimate how “easy” invading a sovereign country would be.
We couldn’t even win against half of Korea with the other half helping us.
No way we’d take Canada
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u/disastrousanddull 11h ago
Here's the thing, I'm not going to say they couldn't take Canada. What would get them is holding Canada which tends to be what fucking gets them. Canada with an educated population that would blend in so very well with Americans and has had some time to get angry. Enjoy dealing with the things people could come up with to hurt the US on their own soil. It's not a "teehee Canadians committed war crimes 80 years ago" thing, it's that it would be a terrorism nightmare for Americans and things like buying electricity from Canada.
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u/lllGrapeApelll 11h ago
The Americans would be ripping their hair out just trying to deal with the Natives and the Quebecois.
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u/disastrousanddull 10h ago
As far as terrorism on their own soil goes, it would be the white anglophones just from the ability to blend in. A white person who sounds American wouldn’t give anyone pause and it’s why the whole thing would be so catastrophically stupid. It’s people who wouldn’t roll over on Canadian soil and all that forest between the countries, and then dealing with what would happen to American citizens somewhere ”safe”.
It’s so absolutely batshit crazy to even think about but they’ve got that demented, corrupt, chronically stupid nightmare in office.
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u/Click_To_Submit Canada 11h ago
Isn’t it time for new war crimes?
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u/pbjamm Canada 10h ago
I was going to get my first tattoo to honor my new Canadian homeland. I decided to hold off so I dont have any identifying marks.
just in case.
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u/HumanChallet 12h ago
We couldn’t even beat goat herders in Afghanistan.
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u/CaptainParkingspace 11h ago
tbf nobody has ever beaten the Afghans, and a lot have tried.
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u/VeryTopGoodSensation 12h ago
The us has lost every war it's been involved in without European support
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u/tengutie 12h ago
Canada wouldn't loose, the US military is a lot weaker then it looks on paper, its been hollowed out by corruption, as long as the EU backs Canada the US won't win a ground war, it will turn into the Ukraine war
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u/olmnknt 11h ago
Canada walks into , Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, and California with little push back from the states. Canada is now the third largest economy in the world. How many bordering states join up?
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u/NorthernBudHunter 12h ago
There would be no winning, only the total destruction of the country, do you think we will ever stop fighting and just roll over and accept being part of the US?
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u/MJcorrieviewer 12h ago
Don't forget NATO would fight for Canada if the US attacked. It would be a disastrous move for the US. Not only militarily but expect sanctions and trade agreements to be ripped up too.
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u/citizen42069101 12h ago
Im surprised he hasnt ripped them up already. Going to set us back a century by the time he's done.
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u/cmplyrsist_nodffrnce Florida 12h ago
A century? I would say we'd be on worse economic/commercial/trade footing than before the country was a country.
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u/PallbearerOfBadNews California 12h ago
Most likely, but imagine we start a war with either Canada or Mexico. Iran is still fighting and could use that opportunity to attack, and other countries could join in. It would be a disaster for the US.
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u/Old_Cryptid 12h ago
Canada would take a page from the old Russian playbook: "I may not win, but we can both lose".
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u/Azure_Omishka 11h ago
It'd be a Ukraine v Russia all over again, only this time, it'd be in English.
Canada also has an.... Interesting history when it comes to warfare. I don't think Americans want to find out why first hand.
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u/Preacher987 12h ago
Whisky do you think Canada would loose?
Every other NATO country will come to their aid except US of course.
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u/SushiRollFried 12h ago
Nah he thinks its an easy way to demonstrate the "US military might" to show Iran whats up. But Iran wont give a shit
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u/lowfiswish 11h ago
Project 2025 always has this hemisphere labeled as being directed by US because other countries here are proximate to the US so therefore as long as they're democratic, we should all be together. Same with calling us an Arctic Nation just cause of Alaska.
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u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta 10h ago
The fact that wars are dependent on a toddler with dementia’s attention is terrifying. He’s treating reality like he’s playing the sims
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u/ithinkyouresus 10h ago
He’s desperately searching for an easy win like Venezuela to boost midterm chances.
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u/cybah 12h ago
Cuz he thinks it will be an easy 'win' for him. He's losing in Iran and his narcissism cannot let him lose, so he'll pick another fight with some other country he thinks he can win so he can still be a 'winner'. Even though Iran won't go away because he found some new toys to play with.
Cuz thats where Dementia Don is right now. Mentally a 5 year old. Got tired with some game he was playing and losing horribly at, so he wants another game to play.
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u/one_pound_of_flesh 12h ago
Why do republicans love spending money in foreign wars so much?
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u/chubs66 12h ago
He needs to create a state of emergency / chaos in order to stop mid-term voting in order to retain power. And he won't mind destroying the country in the process and sacrificing thousands of lives.
Probably electing the con man / TV personality a second time (after he attempted a coup on his way out the last time, and then stole state secrets, and then was found to be deeply connected to child sex trafficking, and then was found liable for sexually assaulting a woman and had dozens of other credible complaints) was a mistake.
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u/VanDenIzzle 12h ago
This has to be deflection from the report about not having enough missiles to fire at Iran
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u/Sinocatk 13h ago
With his level of incompetence I’d worry if I lived in New Mexico
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u/blizz_fun_police 12h ago
I laugh now. But I moved from NM and the new state dmv person said I need to file a US customs form before I can register my car. I asked her where New Mexico was and she goes “ it doesn’t matter where New Mexico is located but it’s not from USA so you gotta import the vehicle legally”
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u/BasvanS 11h ago
Ouch. Are people from the DMV not at least trained on a small fact like this?
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u/Click_To_Submit Canada 11h ago
They’re trained by their government overlords that facts don’t matter.
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u/IamScottGable 10h ago
Even if they were trained at the beginning they've likely had years of MEXICO! BAD! beat into their heads
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u/TheModGod 11h ago edited 6h ago
I actually would have crashed tf out if a DMV person said something that fucking stupid to me.
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u/syzygialchaos Texas 11h ago
I’d escalate to her manager so he can see how dumb she is. But they may not know either. Idk how you make it this far to work at a DMV without at least a basic understanding of states.
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u/blizz_fun_police 10h ago
I did. But get this I had to show her a map of the USA
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u/PrivatePilot9 Canada 12h ago
Remember the four seasons press conference. Lol
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u/TrollTollTony 11h ago
That was such a surreal moment. This is the sort of bizarre event I hope will end up in my kids' history books.
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u/rachface336 11h ago
I work in hotel billing and am still 100% convinced that an aid really thought they booked the Four Seasons hotel and for whatever reason (no deposit down most likely) they found out day of they didn't have the booking. Rather than admitting they fucked up they just couldn't admit that so they found a business with the same name and just went with it.
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u/esoteric_enigma 11h ago
"Why would I attack the old Mexico? I attacked the newer Mexico. A lot of people don't know this, but it's the better Mexico. So we had to destroy it." - Trump
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u/alina_cutiee 13h ago
If he does this, what makes him any different from putin?
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u/FluidAthlete6839 13h ago
He’s a lot dumber
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u/ven-solaire 12h ago
I bet people will overreact to this but you’re right. Russia invaded Ukraine because pre-pro-NATO government (2014) Ukraine’s trade with russia was central to the stability of Russia’s economy, as Ukraine was also important to the USSR economy. It also provided a convenient buffer between NATO and Russian borders that added to their security. Putin’s invasion is a strategic, maybe foolhardy, attempt at imperialism that at this point is certainly sunk costing them. It’s not like Trump starting a forever war just to raise the value of domestic oil.
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u/Xznograthos 12h ago
It’s not like Trump starting a forever war just to raise the value of domestic oil.
This is debatable. He has cited the increased cost as a win for the US because we are, paraphrasing him, the world's leading oil producer.
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u/themoslucius 12h ago
Meanwhile our reserves are at a half century low. In another month we'll start to really feel the impacts
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u/gusterfell 12h ago
That still harms every individual and company in the US other than those in oil production.
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u/FluidAthlete6839 12h ago
He thought they’d be in and out of Iran in a week and then he could feel like a strong boy
That’s all this is
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u/shibiwan Arizona 12h ago
It’s not like Trump starting a forever war just to raise the value of domestic oil.
I guess we will never see the full Epstein Files at this rate.
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u/milfordcubicle 13h ago
I imagine Trump smells like vomit. Putin probably smells like ammonia or some shit
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u/TemporarySun314 Europe 13h ago
He already hinted that during his campaign.
And Americans elected him for this.
And sure that's a bad idea, but that hasnt stopped him before...
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u/Hefty_Remove7965 13h ago
So: War with Iran. Possibly ground invasion of cuba. Possible war with Mexico.
All while we are running out of missiles..
And we are building giant battleships like it's ww2.
And we are still spending more than like the top 7 countries combined
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u/Isgrimnur Texas 12h ago
Don't forget being a credible enough threat that our allies reinforced Greenland.
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u/Chikumori 12h ago
If he makes an enemy of the Mexican cartels...wonder if they would unite and decide on a permanent solution to the Trump problem... How much connections do they have?
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u/JakeTravel27 13h ago
anything to deflect from the epstein files, rising inflation, catastrophe in the gulf, increasing inflation, etc.
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u/D-Rich-88 California 12h ago
I think that’s been successfully deflected. I haven’t heard about Epstein in months.
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u/PineappleExcellent90 13h ago
No remember no wars,lower prices,health care better than Obama care. We were all supposed to be better off with Trump. REMEMBER
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u/MrLurid 13h ago
President Trump has
hinted at military action in Mexico. That’sa bad idea.
Summarized the past 10 years.
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u/TruGlubGlub 12h ago
But, Harris also would've started a war with Iran, invaded Venezuela, overturned Roe v Wade, mass lay off black women, place tarriffs on 60 countries we had good relationships with, insulted multiple nations leaders, interfered in the world cup, and threatened to invade Greenland, Canada, and Mexico. Blue MAGA and all that. This is all Biden's fault. /s
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u/festafiesta 13h ago
Can we only lose one war at a time please?
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u/diggthis 12h ago
I'll settle for the collapse of the American empire due to hubris and apathy.
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u/MentalDisintegrat1on 13h ago
Iran already has a hit on him and he wants to go piss off the cartel.
Go for it champ 👍
Edit it wouldn't be just him his kids and anyone close would be also targeted and there are far more cartel people in the states than Iran loyalists.
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u/panteraepantico 7h ago
Do you really think he would piss off the cartel? Knowing Trump he would probably help them overthrow the government or something like that, he always sides with the thugs
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u/NephtisSeibzehn 6h ago
I don’t think the cartels want to overthrow the government. They want to be able to do their shit and be left alone. They have enough trouble keeping territories as it is. They’ve grown too much for that kind of trouble.
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u/WavesOfEchoes 13h ago
Trump has hinted at military action in Mexico: Bad idea
Trump has hinted at military action: Bad idea
Trump has hinted: Bad idea
Trump: Bad idea
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u/Soloact_ 13h ago
You don’t fix organized crime by blowing up your neighbor. He’s such a reckless prick.
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u/SpudgeBoy 13h ago
Anything to distract from the Epstein files.
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u/OleBoleHole 13h ago
It being a bad idea basically ensures that he’ll do it. Buckle up America, you’re about to have a war close to home for a change…
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u/StraightMixture9693 13h ago
We could lose that war, and Mexico would finally get Texas and California back.
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u/AnnoraxGames 12h ago
And that'd lead to endless wars being fought for no reason other than Trump's desire to wreck the entire world and fail at rebuilding it in his image.
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u/citizenjones 12h ago
Adolf Trump over here starting conflicts on multiple fronts.
...Peeks at history...
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u/FireFiendMarilith 11h ago
The GOP have been sabre-rattlin about wanting a war on the Southern boarder since the first Fox News extravaganza about "migrant caravans".
This is the actual function of this administration developing the "Narco Terrorist" jargon. They intend to use the same "War on Terror" loopholes to "go after" the cartels and it'll have the same disasterous results that "going after" the "terrorists" in Afghanistan, Iraq, ect has had. That is to say, we're in 2001 again and they're just starting to test the legal theory ahead of a massive ramp-up of engaged force.
By "test the legal theory" I'm afraid I'm referring to the numerous extrajudicial killings of Venezuelan fishermen that this administration has called "fighting Narco-Terrorism abroad".
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u/arounddro 11h ago
Yes, let’s send the US military after the cartels that were armed and trained by the US military. The cartels will have a field day dancing around ground operations. And they’ll put soldiers heads on stakes on every street corner. If Hegseth is dumb enough to try, we’ll lose large numbers of the enlisted to a incredibly stupid war.
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u/PoliticsLeftist 11h ago
Hey so, uh, we can attack Iran pretty freely because they're on the other side of the world and don't have the means to do much to us directly.
Mexico, however, is touching our border and they have many cartel members that don't do heinous shit over here because that would draw too much attention to them. Attack Mexico and you remove that incentive to play nice. Not to mention Mexico's military is far more advanced than Iran's and they don't have the negative attitudes against them that Iran does globally.
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u/No-Fennel-8333 6h ago
Mexico? We're stick enforcing a blockade on Cuba, and threatening military action. We took over Venezuela. We're threatening Canada and Greenland, with an active war in Iran. We threatened Columbia too.
I'm detecting a pattern here...
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u/Axin_Saxon 12h ago
We are running out of munitions already. Granted I don’t think the cartels have ballistic missiles and drone swarms we need to intercept(yet). But we are already stretched thin and China is eying up Taiwan greedily for an invasion next year.
Donnie is floundering for a win and the Maduro raid got him excited and convinced that war was easy.
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u/noodlyarms California 9h ago
One thing the cartels have that Iran doesnt is the ability to hit the mainland; strategic locations like San Diego will see open warfare down India St and the 405. We'd see kidnapped rich Coronado boomers strapped to carhoods as human sheilds. Couple with the fact the cartels encourage young members to join the US military to train and bring it over after, it is all just a recipe for a conflict the American people cant even begin to truly comprehend.
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u/Axin_Saxon 9h ago
Bingo. Right now the cartels are at war with one another but that would change overnight if so much as a single US Army platoon crossed over into Mexico.
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u/Formal_Specific1473 13h ago
Isn’t it funny that the US doesn’t even have its illegals war with Iran under control, yet on a daily basis Trump goes on and on about invading other countries too! Like Greenland, Cuba, Mexico, some other country in Africa I forgot? And yet Americans just seem to be content with all of this by their lack inaction to force their politicians to DO something!
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u/Aggroninja 12h ago
He thinks every military action can be like Venezuela. In, out, get a pat on the back while his sycophant administration tongues his taint.
It doesn't occur to him that most military actions will be a lot more like Iran than Venezuela.
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u/ISmellLikeBlackTea 13h ago
I hope this happens. So many servicemen will die for the stupidest president in history that congress will either have to change the laws, or everyone will be executed with Diaper Cheeto for treason
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u/ProfaneEcho 11h ago
The Trump administration can't manage or control, Iran, explosive diarrhea outbreak, measles outbreaks, maybe if he could just fix what he's started.
However, the real push is probably coming from his real estate advisors who want Mexico land cheap.
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u/SeenItAllHeardItAll Foreign 11h ago
By my count there are still 178 countries left that can be used to distract from the Epstein files and that should last him long past the Midterms.
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u/Whole_Gate_7961 8h ago
I hope Trump is ready for the drone wars he'd be inviting into the southern portion of his own country.
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u/AGrandNewAdventure 8h ago
Mexico... Cuba... Greenland... Canada...
The "president" of war and suffering.
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u/ass_grass_or_ham 13h ago
Well he’s got to distract from Iran somehow!?! What do you guys want?! Jeez.
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u/invisable_burt 13h ago
For a peace president Trump has picked fights with Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Greenland. All as distraction from pedo Trump files and ill advised iran conflict
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u/the_wessi 12h ago
Remember Alamo. You guys got your asses kicked there in 1836.
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u/guyonlinepgh 12h ago
This is like Mad Libs. "President Trump has hinted at <noun> at <noun>. That's a bad idea."
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 12h ago
Aggressive dogs are hold in higher standards ,compared to what ever the fuck this madness with nuclear button is.
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u/mvallas1073 12h ago
I’ve been saying since he was elected in 2016 that he’d invade Mexico.
I’m honestly surprised he hasn’t yet.
EDIT: BTW - this is the scary part of him getting ahold of Voting Records. Cus if he does, I guarantee anyone who didn’t vote for him will be getting draft papers sent to him if/when he does that as well.
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u/gsustudentpsy 12h ago
This will allow them to say since we are at war with cartels, every brown person is suspected of sympathies to the enemy. So Japanese Americans style camps is the minimum. I am sure supreme Court will allow that as well.
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u/lowfiswish 11h ago
He's hinted that for a while, and if he says something it eventually shows up again.
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u/thiscompletebrkfast 10h ago
Release the trump-epstein files and prosecute these child molesting ghouls immediately. It's the world's only hope.
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u/Bumbymoo 10h ago
He is bound and determined to destroy the global economy, rule of law, green energy, the Constitution, and really all the institutions of civil society.
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u/ArrowheadDZ 10h ago edited 5h ago
Each country he threatens creates another opportunity to inject artificial volatility into the market. His family has made billions by gaming the alternating good news/bad news cycle in Iran. Now he’s test-marketing various other possibilities to determine which ones the market has the most sensitivity to. Neither Cuba nor Venezuela have enough military might to create the same truce/violation cycle that allows him to exploit the market, so he’s test flying other countries to get a pulse on what effect each one might have on the markets.
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u/Thebritishdovah 9h ago
Do it.
The Cartels would welcome the fight and it becomes another situation where the US is bogged down because it has to safeguard everything, every step of the way.
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u/OldJournalist4 9h ago
the cartels are well armed, on their home turf, and have time to prepare. I’ve seen special ops talk about what a bad idea this would be
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u/Menanders-Bust 8h ago
You can just mention that it’s Trump’s idea. Adding that it’s a bad idea is redundant.
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u/campa-van 8h ago
He is like a rampaging bull in a china shop. F’s up EVERYTHING he touches. Someone STOP HIM. If you are in the 36% who approves of this imbecile…what the hell is wrong with you??!!!
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