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I assume mostly to keep the US from deciding to do the strike themselves.
Seriously you think the violent Reprisals are bad now. Just Imagine if word was US Special Forces did the killing blow
I agree, I imagine this was a "if you don't do this with our intelligence as help, we will just do it".
This is an enormous "No Duh" to anyone who has been paying attention. Cooperation between Mexican Authorities and US NORTHCOM has been public knowledge for months now as is what they are doing and how they are doing it.
And this will only cause more violence and chaos, not less.
She seems capable of reading the room but always seems to fumble herself over when the time comes.
Why does Mexico need intelligence from the US. For one thing, they are spying on their citizens, Mexico should be at least outwardly mad about that, feigned shock, I rebuke you sir! But for another, why didn't mexico know enough to take him down?
Mexico needs to get it's shit together, because if they let the cartels run wild like this, the project 2025 people will start reaching across the border killing people, and they are running the show the president doesn't know what is going on they have him shitposting ai slop picking fights with better men at the moment, then a nap.
Mexico is such a new country, they don't have the long history the US does, I mean take Mexico City they haven't even changed the default name of their capital city yet! That city must be tiny AND brand new.
Comparatively the capital of USA, The Los Angeles, has existed since before movies or even computers and has survived countless Democratic Administrations. They name SUBMARINES after our capital!
Mexico should thank US.
I presume this is some kind of joke, I just refreshed my memory, the latin americas reached for independence during and after the Napoleonic wars weakened spain, and weakened France who lose over a quarter million troops there in guerilla actions, and faced their first real losses where their aura of invincibility was broken.
But around 1810 or so, Mexico declared independence, and spain was too weakened to fight them for it, as south america followed suit, under their founding father Simon Bolivar, who dreamed of a union of south american countries, sort of like a loose United states, {which is how the US was supposed to be to this strong federal government is what they were trying to avoid but I digress,) where they had a common military, and I'm not sure how much of an economic bloc he evangelized on, but as for now, an EU style union amongst latin america is a must for them to prosper, and come out from under the boot of American twatfaced leaders screwing them for their billionaire pals.
Africa needs an economic bloc too but that's a much harder sell.
But south america, and it would have to include venezuela, they are the most important given their oil, with a common currency, more freedom of movement and rules about investment to give more surety to start businesses. And a federal function that negotiates with foreign powers as a group, and runs a cooperative military, would make all the difference.
They've had some interest in this recently too, the US works to scupper it under the table. But either they come up with something better, or the US will topple them for RW dictators to make a rather paltry amount of money for a few rich people in dictatorships and squander the potential of their countries. Look at venezuela, the US made a deal with their military to become their de facto leader, and oversee them selling out their oil and such to the US' connected parties. The civilian leadership are puppets now, it's the cold war template they dusted off, and expect a lot more of that.
The militaries of countries cannot be trusted, especially if they were brought into domestic affairs, as almost all have been, and as the US is trying to do itself. Dooming them all to military rule, barring some kind of union.
It was, I am a shark that must continually develop sarcastic remarks to breathe and I am all out of /s's