[walterbell]

> There wouldn't be a drug business there any more than there would be any other kind of business once all the engines that enable commerce are silent.

This would conflict with US goal of reshoring manufacturing from Asia to NAFTA/USMCA.

[michaelmrose]

The would be less important than legislators not having their children kidnapped by cartel henchmen and dismembered.

[dragonwriter]

It would acheive both: destroying the goals long sought by US trade policy, and increasing terrorist violence (in the short term by cartels, but once you destroy Mexico, it won't just be the cartel members with motives, opportunity, and a perception of nothing to lose) directed at US policymakers.