It's Time To Start Treating Mexico As A Hostile Foreign Power

[Rightguide]

It’s Time To Start Treating Mexico Like A Hostile Foreign Power​

We’re never going to have peace and security on our southern border until we deal with the corrupt and criminal elements that run Mexico.

By: John Daniel Davidson
January 30, 2025


Earlier this week, suspected Mexican drug cartel gunmen fired on U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas, who fired back. This took place on a strip of land in the middle of the Rio Grande called Fronton Island, also known as “Cartel Island” because it was previously used as a staging area for cartel smuggling operations. Texas authorities took over the island as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star and declared it Texas territory in November 2023.

The incident illustrates why it’s time to start treating Mexico as a hostile foreign power that represents a direct threat to the American homeland — not just for the way the Mexican state has facilitated and encouraged illegal immigration, but also because it has allowed the cartels to take control of vast swaths of Mexican territory, infiltrate the Mexican government at the highest levels, and carry out sophisticated operations on both sides of the Rio Grande.

Having just issued an executive order designating some of these cartels Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists, Trump should take the next step and begin military operations against them — inside Mexico. The president floated this idea five years ago, early in his first term, asking his military advisers about the possibility of launching missiles into Mexico to take our cartel drug labs. His advisers at the time dismissed the idea out of hand, but Trump’s instincts were right: If we want to control our southern border and stop the flow of illegal, deadly drugs into our country, we have to take the terrorist designation seriously and go to war with the cartels by taking the fight to them.

It’s not an outrageous or reckless idea. In early 2023, Reps. Dan Crenshaw and Mike Waltz, both military combat veterans, introduced legislation creating the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) to target Mexican drug cartels responsible for the fentanyl crisis at America’s southern border. The bill never went anywhere, just as previous Republican bills designating the cartels as terrorist organizations never went anywhere, but under the Biden administration it didn’t really matter. Biden was never going to do anything about the border, much less the cartels that control it.

Much more here: https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/30/its-time-to-start-treating-mexico-like-a-hostile-foreign-power/

It's long past time to lay down the law to Mexico.

 

[ll74]

Ending wars again, I see.

Which ones are the neocon war mongers again?

 

[Rotadom]

Nothing like a border war to start this already failed regime.

You're being distracted from what's happening.

 

[Rightguide]

Ending wars again, I see.

Which ones are the neocon war mongers again?

Mexican cartels are firing on our Border Patrol and penetrating our border at will. They are asking for an armed response. We have the right to defend ourselves and our border with whatever force is necessary. Much more so than the borders of Ukraine.

 

[ll74]

Mexican cartels are firing on our Border Patrol and penetrating our border at will. They are asking for an armed response. We have the right to defend ourselves and our border with whatever force is necessary. Much more so than the borders of Ukraine.

Or - we could press Mexico to do more to address cartels and work with them in their effort, as an ally.

 

[Noitall]

Or - we could press Mexico to do more to address cartels and work with them in their effort, as an ally.

Has that worked for 50 yrs

 

[TastySuckToy]

Typical leftist morons don't know the difference between injecting one's country into foreign wars on the other side of the globe (giving away massive amounts of tax dollars in the process), and defending a nation's borders from hostile forces infiltrating the country with drugs, violence and massive flows of illegals intended to negatively impact the economy.

 

[Bray123]

TheFederalist is no more of a source than GatewayPundit.

They both make the Felon sound sensible.

 

[ll74]

Has that worked for 50 yrs

How much has that been tried? Is it better to work with an ally or to invade an ally?

So you're advocating for military invasion of an ally without their cooperation

 

[Rightguide]

Or - we could press Mexico to do more to address cartels and work with them in their effort, as an ally.

The Cartels are controlling the upper reaches of the Mexican government and their military, so we will probably run into intransigence at every level.

 

[ll74]

The Cartels are controlling the upper reaches of the Mexican government and their military, so we will probably run into intransigence at every level.

The new President has been very hawkish on fighting corruption along with cartels and immigration. Providing assistance could lead to more of that. She's been in office for less than a year.

 

[ll74]

Speaking of - Mexico defends sovereignty as US seeks to label cartels as terrorists | AP News https://apnews.com/article/trump-us...rganizations-8f010b9762964417039b65a10131ff64

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s executive order moving toward designating drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations would only impact Mexico if there’s close coordination between the two governments.

She said that Mexico would defend its sovereignty and independence while seeking coordination with the U.S. in the wake of the order signed Monday.

“We all want to fight the drug cartels,” Sheinbaum said at her daily press briefing. The U.S. “in their territory, us in our territory.”

 

[AlexBailey]

Which of our allies are saying the same thing about us?

“We’re never going to have peace and security until we deal with the corrupt and criminal elements that run the USA.”

We literally have a government run by grifters, criminals, abusers, and rapists and a president who changes loyalty at the flash of cash. What foreign country could trust anything the US government says?

 

[TastySuckToy]

We literally have a government run by grifters, criminals, abusers, and rapists and a president who changes loyalty at the flash of cash. What foreign country could trust anything the US government says?

That why all those people got kicked out or are in the process of getting kicked out by the Trump administration. The democrat/leftist infection within government is pretty extensive, so we need to give it a little bit more time to treat and clean.

 

[HisArpy]

We need to give the Mexican people a choice. Either stay as a sovereign nation, or become a US territory.

Sovereign nation = drug wars, poverty, crime, etc.

US Territory = good jobs, Constitutional Rights, effective policing, etc.

Let them decide which future they want to have and either vote to keep their current political setup, or abolish it to become US citizens. No requirement to sneak across the border to get better living/pay conditions.

 

[AlexBailey]

That why all those people got kicked out or are in the process of getting kicked out by the Trump administration. The democrat/leftist infection within government is pretty extensive, so we need to give it a little bit more time to treat and clean.

So meanwhile 47 and Co make sure other nations understand we can’t be counted on so they go and develop more ties with China, India, and Russia.

If you stop feeding your cat and chase it off your porch it will find another benefactor.

Soft diplomacy. Do you not believe in its influence?

 

[AlexBailey]

We need to give the Mexican people a choice. Either stay as a sovereign nation, or become a US territory.

Sovereign nation = drug wars, poverty, crime, etc.

US Territory = good jobs, Constitutional Rights, effective policing, etc.

Let them decide which future they want to have and either vote to keep their current political setup, or abolish it to become US citizens. No requirement to sneak across the border to get better living/pay conditions.

Yeah, ultimatums tend to encourage trust and respect.

 

[HisArpy]

Yeah, ultimatums tend to encourage trust and respect.

There was no ultimatum in what I wrote.

If you think there is, then that's a YOU problem.

 

[ishtat]

The USA has started more wars or invaded other states in the past 50 years than China, Russia and the next half dozen countries put together. Would one more make much difference?

And before any knee jerk denial just add them up.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Gullible Comrade RightGuide shares moronic opinion piece written by a particularly dimwitted chimp, and Comrade RightGuide finds a way to worm in a complaint about supporting Ukraine against Putin’s invasion.

Comrade RightGuide is as gullible as Noitall/moOHmo who is mentally challenged. Is Comrade RightGuide mentally challenged also? It seems so.

 

[AlexBailey]

There was no ultimatum in what I wrote.

If you think there is, then that's a YOU problem.

You wrote:

“We need to give the Mexican people a choice. Either stay as a sovereign nation, or become a US territory.”

Under what definition is this not an ultimatum?

 

[Rightguide]

Which of our allies are saying the same thing about us?

“We’re never going to have peace and security until we deal with the corrupt and criminal elements that run the USA.”

We literally have a government run by grifters, criminals, abusers, and rapists and a president who changes loyalty at the flash of cash. What foreign country could trust anything the US government says?

It's probably just you.

 

[AlexBailey]

It's probably just you.

Probably?

So you literally can’t think beyond your own perspective.

 

[HisArpy]

You wrote:

“We need to give the Mexican people a choice. Either stay as a sovereign nation, or become a US territory.”

Under what definition is this not an ultimatum?

The part where your lack of reading comprehension said:

Let them decide which future they want to have and either vote to keep their current political setup, or abolish it to become US citizens.

Honestly, it's like you enjoy getting your ass reamed... oh wait...

 

[Rightguide]

Probably?

So you literally can’t think beyond your own perspective.

I was referring to your peculiar perspective.