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

[Politruk]

No post in this thread so far, including the OP, has made any case for treating Mexico as a hostile foreign power.

 

[Rightguide]

You say nothing there that doesn't apply to yourself.

This is what we hear when you speak:

 

[Politruk]

No post in this thread so far, including the OP, has made any case for treating Mexico as a hostile foreign power.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Mexico is threating to sue Google over the change of name on Google Earth. I think Google will back down. I predict Trump will have a hissy fit and slap tariffs on Mexico.

 

[jomar]

Mexico is threating to sue Google over the change of name on Google Earth. I think Google will back down. I predict Trump will have a hissy fit and slap tariffs on Mexico.

That’s interesting, haven’t read the lasted showdown. Seems I read name changes happen fairly often and typically the country who renames sees the new nam on its google maps and whatnot, while the rest of the world sees the old standard name. I guess there’s conventions or rules for when a vanity marketing whim becomes the standard or something.

 

[Nicefella]

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.

I absolutely agree. We had no problem doing this with Noriega and we shouldn’t with Mexico. Yes - different issue from Noriega - but firing into the US is an act of aggression and Congress can and should allow for surgical strikes along the border. Yes, this is definitely controversial but Mexico has been negligent and corrupt for far too long.

The question is - will our otherwise weak legislature actually do something of substance or cower to the Latino voting bloc? Or perhaps the President can act in an emergent measure?

 

[Nicefella]

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.

That is a dumb idea and it will never happen. And why would the US want Mexico with all of their border problems and gang violence/health and poverty challenges??

 

[RobDownSouth]

No post in this thread so far, including the OP, has made any case for treating Mexico as a hostile foreign power.

....and they won't. This is simply their "daily poutrage" exercise, permitting them to clutch their pearls and whine piteously in public whilst lecturing us on "teh way things ought to be".

 

[Rightguide]

US special forces landing in Mexico to train marine infantry​

Julian Resendiz
Updated: Feb 17, 2025 / 03:09 PM CST

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A Mexican Senate commission has approved the entry of members of the U.S. Army’s 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) into the country starting this week.

The Americans will come fully armed as part of a mission to train the Mexican Navy’s Infantería de Marina (marine infantry) on conventional and non-conventional types of combat.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/us-special-forces-mexico-training/

This is the cover story for a much bigger series of actions to come.

 

[Politruk]

US special forces landing in Mexico to train marine infantry​

Julian Resendiz
Updated: Feb 17, 2025 / 03:09 PM CST

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A Mexican Senate commission has approved the entry of members of the U.S. Army’s 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) into the country starting this week.

The Americans will come fully armed as part of a mission to train the Mexican Navy’s Infantería de Marina (marine infantry) on conventional and non-conventional types of combat.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/us-special-forces-mexico-training/

This is the cover story for a much bigger series of actions to come.

A nation's military does not train the military of a hostile foreign power.

 

[Rightguide]

A nation's military does not train the military of a hostile foreign power.

Mexico still has a few patriots willing to risk it all to take their country back from the Cartels.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

That’s interesting, haven’t read the lasted showdown. Seems I read name changes happen fairly often and typically the country who renames sees the new nam on its google maps and whatnot, while the rest of the world sees the old standard name. I guess there’s conventions or rules for when a vanity marketing whim becomes the standard or something.

Mexico's point is the US can only unilateral change the name to the limits of it's continental shelf. Not the whole Gulf.

 

[Politruk]

CIA flying covert drone missions into Mexico to spy on drug cartels.

Mexico president says her government requested US surveillance drone flights.