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Take I wrote on increasing calls in Republican and bi-partisan spaces for a Military intervention into Mexico against the Cartels, and why this would inevitably lead to armed conflict within America itself, along with a possible death spiral of instability in the wider North American region.
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I'm not sure how anybody can talk about persecuting a war when a much simpler task - not letting millions of people, armed with nothing but their feet and sad stories, to cross over the border without any authorization or control - continually remains of out reach of the US system for decades. And I don't mean it's a couple of people slipping through the cracks, which happened even in Soviet Union. I mean like thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.
Messing with Mexico with current societal capabilities is plainly insane, and that's before we remember that if Republicans try to do that, Democrats would actively sabotage any effort on every level, to the level that would make Vietnam time resistance look like kindergarten theater imitation of the real thing. I mean, they successfully sabotaged building a fricking border wall, which every normal country would have on its borders, which didn't require killing anybody and only required doing what Democrats love doing almost above all else - spending the taxpayer money. And then we can remember how fucked up the whole thing in Afghanistan was - and there they didn't even had to do it to stick it to the Republicans, they just did it out of pure idiocy. It's like having a leaky bucket, being unable to fix it and wondering is it strong enough to cross the Atlantic in it? Would it survive hitting an iceberg? It can't survive sitting on our own kitchen floor, what are you talking about?
I'm no pacifist hippy, but I'd say anybody who actually proposes this thing as a real solution - I mean not helping Mexico, not training some troops, not sending them arms and other assistance even, but actually going to actual full-scale war with Mexico - is a loon. It maybe could be a nice thing (or maybe not) if it were possible to solve that problem that way, but it's completely and totally impossible.
So the idea is insane, and the Democrats would also be bad for... opposing this insane idea? Trying to make it not happen?
I didn't read any "Democrats bad" in that post, just a cynical take on how they would react.
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The idea is insane, and even if it were sane because I missed some clever way in which it could be done, it would not be possible in current setup, which makes it doubly insane. I know it's more complicated that would fit a bumper sticker, but things often are. There are several factors in play here, and each of them plays against this idea.
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It seems to me that when (R) politicians from Texas talk about military intervention in or invasion of Mexico, they mean ‘making the noreste independent and bribing it to interdict unwanted traffic to the US border, the rest of Mexico be damned’. More than likely other (R) politicians are copying them and haven’t thought it all the way through.
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