Instability in a neighbour is the perfect excuse for a fascist expansionist "intervention". Ugh. Not that I like the cartels or anything. Mexico is stuck between a rock and hard place here.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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The people are stuck, the politicians are doing great!
oh yeah, if you dare to fight back you will be killed regardless of your class
politicians, candidates, journalists, marine officials...
What inevitably happens when you kill a drug boss. Like it or not drug king pins reduce violence and taking them out just leads to their underlings fighting it out for a while until a new one consolidates their rule and you're back to square one.
Cops and governments love to target them though so they can say they bagged the next pablo Escobar while they ignore the main problem of why people are killing people over drugs: prohibition and poverty.
Why didn’t we do this to the sacklers?
They're white and rich.
Nice to see the CIA is still doing its job of preventing South American countries from becoming too stable or democratic.
And this wild conspiracy speculation is based on....?
To quote Wikipedia:
Yes, yes, om sure the CIA is fucking evil and they've overthrown many governments and commit sabotage on a regular basis
None of that means that the CIA had anything to do with this violence.
Having lived through multiple of these violent events in Mexico, this is not a revolution in progress. Mark my words, the worst is behind us, and within a few days this will be utterly go e.
I can tell you this has more to do with the Narcos being fucking violent organizations that are reacting with revenge for their leader.
Could the US be any more incompetent? Zero planning for repercussions, just kill kill kill.
Zero planning for repercussions
You're viewing the backlash as a bug rather than a feature. Vance will be back on TV in a week, arguing the US needs to intervene directly.
Fair. Did not immediately think of other ways the US could abuse its power.
I was thinking it would be much sooner than that
Vance will be back on TV in a week, arguing the US needs to intervene directly.
This was the plan all along
Vance is a clown, he's got no juice, it's the project 2025 people calling the shots.
This was the Mexican army, not US
“The US has been pushing its southern neighbour to take more aggressive action”
Acting on US intelligence.
Coerced by Trump…
I mean, what's your alternative competent plan for dealing with the cartels?
Make peoples lived better, so most don't want to escape them.
But how does that benefit the shareholders?
They get to continue living. Pretty cushy don't ya think.
Unless your idea of Cushy is the national razor that sound dumb.
That was literally the implication. They can change their ways and become a benefit to society. Or eliminated to at least cease being a burden.
The cartels aren't going to allow that
The cartels can't. And yes they won't. This was more that the people complaining about them and drove the attack on them. (Fascists/trump) They are the only ones that could do anything to hurt the cartels. IE make peoples lives better so they don't seek drugs to escape them. But they don't care about making lives better or helping anyone but themselves. And anyone appeasing them only hurts themselves.
I got ya! I misunderstood!
No worries, it was a sort of vague statement after all.
Do you think the Mexican government isn't already trying to do that? They clearly don't have the resources to pull it off.
I wasn't speaking specifically of the Mexican government more as a general thing. Unfortunately, this is largely out of Mexican government control. The fascist oligarchs in the United States have made the lives of people there so miserable that they need drugs to get by. There's not much the Mexican government can do about that. As long as that problem exists, the symptoms of cartel leaders rising up to fill that need will always happen.
Oh, in that case I agree completely - the root cause is demand in the US.
Yep. I 100% feel for the Mexican government ON THAT POINT. For every kingpin they kill 1-2 will pop up. More vicious and violent than the last. And there's literally nothing they can do. Because its a response to an external issue they can't address.
Tha'ts more of a goal than a plan.
Legalize all drugs and dismantle the CIA
We should do this regardless
I mean, what’s your alternative competent plan for dealing with the cartels?
Cut off demand, you'll never kill every single drug dealer... its insane to think you can do it that way
Hugs not Drugs! /s