President Donald Trump was re-elected in part because he was the only peace candidate on the ballot. That’s not to say he isn’t ready to use military force to protect America. But that’s very different from launching a Liz Cheney-style regime change war and committing tens of thousands of Americans to go die in some country no one can find on a map.
Trump has committed to finally waging war on the drug cartels—Tom Clancy style—for the mass poisoning of Americans. We should think about what that’s going to look like in the near future.
We already know most of what Trump’s plans for the southern border entail. He’s going to finish the wall and he won’t let Congress stop him this time. The Remain in Mexico policy will be reinstated almost immediately. He’s promised to sign the long-awaited anchor baby executive order on day one.
Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan isn’t kidding around when it comes to Trump’s mass deportation plans. Homan has already told Joe Biden’s illegals that they’d be better off self-deporting right now. Trump will also put diplomatic and economic pressure on Mexico to control its southern border.
The drug cartels are an entirely different matter, though. They’re violent, wealthy, and heavily armed. The Mexican military frequently gets their butts kicked by the cartels because their weaponry is that advance. They’re also subhuman animals without moral conscience. It’s why they got along so well with the Biden regime.
The scale of the drug cartel menace is far larger than any threat that America faced during the Global War on Terror. We spent a trillion dollars on wars with Iraq and Afghanistan after Islamic terrorists (maybe) killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11. The drug cartels kill 100,000 mostly young Americans every year.
That’s how many of our people die from drug overdoses every year, most of them from fentanyl poisoning. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sells the precursor chemicals to make fentanyl to the drug cartels and ships the materials to Mexico. The CCP is doing this deliberately. No one ever talks about this, but the CCP says it will do more to crack down on the precursor chemicals just as soon as the US stops selling weapons and ammo to Taiwan.
China can be dealt with diplomatically and it’s certain that Trump will work out some kind of a deal with them. The cartels are a different story because they can’t be reasoned with.
Trump announced in December 2023 that one of his first acts in office would be to designate the drug cartels as international terrorist groups. You have to wonder why the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden administrations never did this. With the terrorism designation, Trump will be able to shut down the cartels’ banking access.
Other possibilities include targeted drone strikes on the homes of cartel leaders. They’re easy to spot. Just look for the gaudy luxury haciendas with lots of glass, waterfront views, and Anne Hathaway lounging by the pool in a bikini. (Okay, that was a cheap shot. Anne prefers to date Italian mobsters.)
The exotic pets also give away the cartel leaders a lot of the time. South America is still struggling to deal with a herd of wild hippopotamuses that got loose after Pablo Escobar died. The herd is up to more than 100 hippos at last count.
Incoming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has also endorsed the idea of targeted strikes to take out the cartels. They simply operate out in broad daylight after four years of Biden throwing the border open. Trump could also impose a naval blockade to stop the Chinese ships loaded with precursors from making it to Mexico.
The problems will start once Trump actually does launch a drone strike on some cartel boss’s house. The United Nations will throw a sh*t fit because there will probably be civilians in the home at the time. Even if there are no innocents killed, the UN will still claim they were and will try to brand Trump a war criminal. It may create all sorts of diplomatic problems for the US if we start dropping bombs on Mexico’s sovereign territory (or whichever country the cartel bosses are living in).
But which is the better alternative? Ticking off Mexico and the UN, or continuing to lose 100,000 Americans to nasty drug ODs every year?
