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Trump says Putin launching massive strike on Ukraine is ‘what anybody would do’
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mexico??? you know the panama/canada/greenland talk yeah.
It's been a long standing right wing fantasy of sending the us military to deal with the cartels
What about that is right-wing?
The United States has a history of organizing campaigns to crush terrorist organizations. A month ago, the United States designated six cartels as terrorist organizations, which prompted Mexico to issue a warning about the United States attempting any sort of invasion or incursion. This is also occuring in tandem with the current President of the United States going on about taking Greenland and Panama, and how Canada should be part of the United States, which was also interpreted as a suggestion of a hostile takeover.
And then there are reports of them having been mulling options since November, talk of it by political candidates in 2023, talk by sitting members of Congress and even legislation introduced in support of it within Congress.
Not so curiously, these acts have been exclusively done by Republicans, also known as the Right-Wing.
Of course, if you could show that Democrats were as keen on the idea of invading Mexico, then calling it right-wring would be in error.
When your response to complicated situation that could be solved with non-violence is to send in the military - that's right wing
How do we solve it with non-violence?
Fix the root issue. Cartels thrive because yanks want drugs. Yanks mostly want drugs because there are issues in their lives they want to run away from and end up addicted to said drugs. Decriminalizing possession and offering detox programs to those addicted would already help reduce the demand by making people willing and able to come forward to get treatment for a drug addiction without fear of being arrested and having their lives ruined further. Then you can attack the source of this desire for drugs by passing laws that actually help people by offering them social safety nets and access to healthcare. Then you can legalize far less addicting and dangerous drugs like cannabis so people who do seek drugs won't go to black market ones that help cartels thrive.
There are SOOOOO many little steps that can be taken to reduce the power of cartels, but that would require Yanks to actually care about one another, not just about their own wallet and be willing to go for complex solutions, not just the easy solution of just shoot your problem, so I guess that's just never happening.
Cartels have been diversifying their investments for years. They're involved in way more than drugs at this point.
Wonderfully said!
Indeed, when we've based our society around "get rich or die trying" and a constant state of misery is the motivator to work ever-demanding jobs with less compensation, and people are scared to lose the house over an ambulance ride...
The US practically molded the cartels' success from their own policies. A cartel is simply violent unfettered capitalism, after all. They are destructively "filling a need."
We could reduce or eliminate that need, but the State would rather crush their competition in the misery business.
It's no wonder we saw the serious rise of the cartels especially around the 1970's and onward, and that's when the working class started its increasingly rapid descent.