Comment on Any US Military Action in Mexico Unacceptable: Foreign Ministry

Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• ga_so_art@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The US can help stop the cartels by:
  - Fixing its drug laws / policies so that American addicts can get help getting clean, and stop paying money for Mexican drugs. American drug demand fuels the Mexican cartels.
  - Actually regulating gun and equipment trafficking from the US to Mexico. US weapons and ammunition flood Latin America, and the US does virtually nothing about it.

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That would be a good start, no question.

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• echutaaa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The problem is the US wouldn’t get rid of them, they’d just do what they always do and prop up one as the defacto monopoly and use it to control the region. Drugs are to valuable to the justice system to let go.

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• switcheroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Now is not the time for ANYONE to be accepting help from the US. Mexico would be wise to say HELL FUCK NO and follow up with “if you come here, it’s an invasion and will start a war”.

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• Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Who do you think created and funded cartels?

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The answers are both the same, people that want more power.

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    • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sometimes people mistake puppets for puppeteers.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  racism intensifies

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  helping people get rid of those cartels is something I would appreciate a lot

  You’d have to be very gullible to believe they’re going to do that. EXTREMELY so to believe That it’s ALL they’re going to do.

  And I highly doubt their government is able to deal with that problem on their own

  Probably much better at it than US soldiers with no background in law and little to no local connections.

  they are too powerful and murder any opposition

  The time when fighting organized violence with more organized violence was an effective strategy ended DECADES ago. If it ever started.

  The same way North Korea is stuck in the middle of the 20th century

  Ethics comparisons aside, saying that the cartels (whose leaders tend to be scrupulously anonymous or known chiefly by an alias/nickname) act in the same way as the hereditary cult of personality monarchy of North Korea is so untethered from the situation on the ground that it’s currently orbiting one of the moons of Saturn.

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