DeSantis: I’d strike drug cartels in Mexico ‘on day one’
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A war with a neighbor would be expensive and significantly more lethal to US citizens than fentanyl. How about instead start with threatening sanctions and tariffs if they don't get their cartels on a leash?
How long would it take Washington DC to collapse without the drugs that come through Mexico? Where would everyone get their easily victimized non-Citizen underclass?
Far better to leave Mexico alone for a bit longer.
Of course neither is far away to really serve the purpose of feeding the defense contractors, so the actual strategy will probably hinge on starting in Argentina and conquering south America in a grand drive to the equator.
Would it? I'd think it would just as filled with drugs from China, Columbia, and the Middle East, just via different routes, and enriching different middlemen, and that's ignoring legal weed.
If Europe had a person representing the US mind set, it would be Jeremy Clarkson. "MORE POWER! GIVE ME A HAMMER!"