Remember when Trump said “America First” and everyone cried? Pepperidge Farms remembers…
Okay but you SHOULD be doing something about the fucking cartels…speaking as a Mexican American
Sounds like they are. They’re going to let America fight its drug war in America.
They’re not though, they have constantly capitulated to the cartels over the last few years and more. The cartels are literal terrorist scum and should be wiped the fuck out
Except it isn’t that easy to just “wipe them out”. It’d be like dealing with a very well armed, very large resistance movement and would probably start a civil war. Without support from somewhere (like the US) it would be political (and probably regular) suicide
with a lot of Chinese gangs helping them
And american institutions.
The US drug war, as well as decades of funding dictators and death squads, created the instabilities that contributed to the creation of the cartels.
You’re on crazy pills/ignorant as fuck if you think it is on Latin America to clean up our fuckin mess
The US should focus on defunding them and any local support but by no means should the US do anything on Mexicos soil. Legalizing and regulating drugs locally would cut a lot of their funding I imagine. Long term it would also probably help the immigration numbers as well. Especially is we placed tariffs that enticed companies to not ship products from China but rather if they must use labor elsewhere to make it more profitable to move their manufacturing from China to Mexico/South America. It would help the regions and decrease shipping distance cutting back on environmental impacts.
Edit: typo, defunding became defending
What’s with OP’s pro-Trump editorializing? How does this article possibly serve as a defense of Trump’s fascist “America First” policies?
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USA should legalize all drugs.
The problem is, unless something is done about the cartels before hand, all that is going to do is legitimize them.
Legalizing drugs doesn’t mean there are no regulations. The FDA would have to control the quality of the drugs, and I bet the cartels don’t exactly have quality control.
Cartels make an estimated $20-30 billion a year selling drugs to the U.S.
If the FDA regulates and we make our own, you just cut out all that money from them. Their influence goes down greatly. Also feeds the money back into our economy and the taxes on it can help us line our politicians pockets, oops I mean help fund healthcare
Yeah, but the comment I’m replying to specifically said mexico should legalize, that wouldn’t change the us demand at all.
Mexico cutting off its nose to spite its face.
He said that, then put Trump first. What did he do for America besides racist rhetoric, a few miles of border wall that apparently doesn’t work, and fast tracked a COVID vaccine you won’t take?
I think it’s gone under the radar for most people just how massive and powerful the cartels have gotten over the last 10 years, all aided by crypto. Now that they don’t have to worry about trucking dollars over borders, they can basically operate like multinational corporations
