Mexico will never tolerate an invasion of its national sovereignty by the United States, President Claudia Sheinbaum warned Thursday after Washington designated Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations.

“This cannot be an opportunity for the U.S. to invade our sovereignty,” she said. “With Mexico it is collaboration and coordination, never subordination or interventionism, and even less invasion.”

On Wednesday, the Trump administration formally labeled eight cartels as terrorist groups. They include Mexico’s two main drug trafficking organizations, the Jalisco New Generation and Sinaloa cartels.

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  • Noxy@pawb.social
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    I deeply hope none of this happens. But if it does I hope the cartels destroy the invading US forces.

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      23 hours ago

      It would be another Vietnam… the cartels curry favour with locals, so would likely have the general civilian population on their side and helping them.

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      I hope it never happens either, at least not under the current administration.

      but boy do I have news for you…

      there won’t be an invading army. only artillery and drones.

      the cartel is nothing compared to the horror shit show from the last 25 years. the army won’t even need to use 1/10% of its full capabilities.

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        The US is shit at fighting guerilla armies despite exclusively doing so for the last 60 years. You make the mistake of invading Mexico, shit on the US side starts blowing up. Mexico won’t assist the US, and if they start really sanctioning the US that’s pretty much it for motor vehicles in the military. If China takes the opportunity to then sanction the US that’s it for military drones and quite a lot of the air force.

        Logistics and manufacturing wins engagements and wars, and other countries control both in the US.

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                Bruh, if you can’t be bothered to read, why are you replying? No wonder your reply made no sense.

                Your initial comment seems to imply that it won’t be a problem for the US army to fight against the cartel, which the other guy was arguing against by giving examples of how bad their performance has been against guerilla fighters.

                You replied by asking him which army isn’t bad at fighting guerilla warfare? His point wasn’t that the US army is the only one bad at fighting guerilla warfare. Your rebuttal even goes against your original point that the US won’t have trouble with fighting the cartel, so it doesn’t even work as a supporting argument for your own point.

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        There is nothing preventing these cartels from retaliating in kind.

        Drones are not difficult to source or build, and these orgs have weapons, manpower and 100s of billions of dollars.

        They have nowhere near the arsenal of the US military, but this isn’t an 800lb guerilla vs a toddler. This is an 800lb guerilla vs a 100lb guerilla. That small guerilla is still going to wreck unimaginable havoc in the US if the two fight.

      • Masterbaexunn@lemmy.world
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        Broooo have I got news for you. … the cartels already operate in the USA and do so quite unobstructed. They will kidnap, torture and kill, then release the tiktok.

        And then once the trump cronies and the unending greed get a little taste of the blood money, it fucking over.

        • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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          you’re absolutely correct. the cartel inflicts terror into their victims.

          the US military industrial complex thrives on terror and killing.

          my money is on the US military to outlast the cartels and they would be hit weeks before they’re ready.

          they’re used to dealing with feds and agents.

          soldiers aren’t going to arrest you. they’re deployed to kill you.