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by goodguyamericun 1593 days ago
It does. Trump even offered to send marines. But was rejected
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What a nice guy.

When has letting US Soldiers in ever helped a country?

The "Defense Department" doesn't care about freedom. The State Department doesn't care about freedom.

They are extensions of US Corporations, the State Department leaks showed that loud and clear. Corporations only care about control and extraction. If you let US Soldiers into your country, you are ceding control of it to multinational corporations.

And you do realize that the worst of the modern cartels were trained by the US Military and US Intelligence in the "School of the Americas" in espionage, counterespionage, guerilla warfare, asymmetric warfare?

The cherry on top: US Soldiers in another country can rape and murder with impunity. They are immune to prosecution, legally and practically.

And even if you bring in the soldiers... Look at Afghanistan and it's poppy fields. Our little puppet government was producing opiates for the entire world, controlled by Karzai's family. We setup a Narco state. And you think we'll waltz into Mexico and fix things with M-16s and F-35s?

What Mexico needs is decriminalization of drugs in the USA. I used to be opposed to any degrees of legalization because the most abused drugs are the legal ones. But the US needs to deal with its addiction problems itself, without causing a civil war in Mexico and Central America and everywhere else it sources its drugs.

It's what makes the anti-immigrant stance of the right wing so infuriating. How much illegal immigration is the creation of the right wing war on drugs? You think people are traveling the length of Mexico from Central America because it is an easy and safe trip?

I agree with most of what you said, United States doesn't care about happiness or peace of foreign countries, only power and influence.

But anti immigration has nothing right wing. Bernie fucking Sanders called it Koch brothers policy. Obama and Biden campaign against it. Obama built the cages. If you want to be treated seriously stop being partisan otherwise you just come across as a cnn watcher with no real grasp on things.