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    They’re going to use the Palestine strategy aren’t they?

    “Oh there are drug cartels hiding in this hospital! Drug labs in this school! We need to bomb it! Humanitarian aid workers? They’re actually Hamas double agents! We mean drug cartels or whatever.”

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    With the respect, the Trump team failed to invade the US Capitol when they controlled it’s defense apparatus, they are more likely to kill themselves than succeed in any ground invasion.

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    Dude you’d never believe this I have donny gets assassinated by the cartel on my bingo card!

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    So, this is what you do to your #1trade partner

    • Level 100% tarrifs on their goods

    • dump millions of deportees on them

    • invade them with military

    IDK about you, but to me it sounds a little counter productive

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      What you were expecting a productive presidency this time around?

      They’ll sure produce a lot of bullshit lies.

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      “The only thing trump can produce on a counter is E Coli! The BEST E Coli! HahaHAH, stupid Libs!!!”

      - trump, probably. (Never trust a person that speaks in 3rd person.)

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    Given the level of expertise in the trump regime, this can only possibly end with mexico reclaiming texas. I hope they rename it Alamonia. To remember.

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    If this happened in a video game, this is how you’d end up in a bizzaro situation where you’d have Russian bases in Mexico. Trump has bad advisors.

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      The worst advisors. Truly the worst advisors anyone has ever had, the worst in history! They say my advisors are pretty good, but they lie. My advisors SUCK.

      Sorry. I’m tired and doing an off kilter Trump impression just seemed like the thing to do in the moment.

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    Haven’t we already demonstrated that we can’t successfully hold a mountainous desert against the will of its population in the modern era?

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    Trump has reportedly been gathering “battle plans” to attack drug cartels in Mexico since early 2023, with or without Mexico’s permission.

    One source close to Trump told Rolling Stone about a plan for a “soft” invasion of the country, in which U.S. special forces would assassinate cartel leaders covertly

    These actions vary in their level of force, including drone strikes and airstrikes against cartel targets such as drug labs, sending military advisers and trainers to Mexico, sending “kill teams” to the country, using cyberwarfare against drug lords and their organizations, and the assassination plan.

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      Sounds accurate. He thinks things work like 80s action movies. He probably literally got mad when they told him Rambo was a fictional character, so they had to force some guy to legally change his name to Rambo so Trump would be happy.

      The idea that you can just “send” “special forces” “assassins” to kill cartel leaders in a foreign country is fairly challenging just as an accomplishsble mission, let alone factoring in the potential and very serious blowback from the cartels AND the Mexican government.

      $20 says he recently watched Sicario or something.

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    What’s more amusing is how they’ve all cried about how illegals are invading the country. If we invade and annex Mexico, are they still illegals?

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    This is hilarious, I just wrote a comment the other day stating:

    “… If Mexico goes socialist for any reason, will see Canadian soldiers in the front line annexing Mexico with the US.”

    And the response I got was “Pure insanity”

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    I can’t make it a fucking day without making a sardonic, cynical joke based on old sci-fi nerd shit till BAM yeah, getting degrees in poli sci and econ were a waste of time, my nerd sense as a child ( + the ability to discern fantastical elements from plausible elements of a story) was all that was actually needed to learn about the future.

    So anyway, Ghost in the Shell timeline it is then.

    Obviously minus the impossible robotic/cybernetic tech.

    Season 2, Episode 14 of Stand Alone Complex.

    Most of the episode is a flashback to the 2020’s, where its established that America invades Mexico with the goal of stopping the cartels, and both sides are using PMCs/Mercenaries.

    (Blackwater never went away, they just changed names a bunch of times, now they’ve merged/consolidated with a bunch of other similar PMCs into Constellis… Trump pardoned 4 of the Blackwater guys in the Nisour Square massacre in Iraq at the end of his last term, so they’re obviously in his rolodex)