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Trump wanted to missile drug cartels in Mexico
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:37 pm
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:37 pm
Specifically their drug labs. This is the kind of military intervention I can fully support and would volunteer myself to join the effort.
Daily Wire
Daily Wire
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NEWS
Trump Wanted To Fire Missiles Into Mexico To Destroy Drug Cartel Labs: Report
By Ryan Saavedra
May 5, 2022
Then-President Donald Trump reportedly asked then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in 2020 about launching missiles into Mexico to destroy drug cartel labs, according to a new book.
Esper claims in “A Sacred Oath,” which is expected to be released next week, that the idea from Trump came out of his frustration about the constant flow of drugs across the southern border.
Trump reportedly asked Esper at least twice if the U.S. military could “shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs,” noting that the Mexican government did not “have control of their own country.”
“When Mr. Esper raised various objections, Mr. Trump said that ‘we could just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs, quietly,’ adding that ‘no one would know it was us,’” The New York Times reported. “Mr. Trump said he would just say that the United States had not conducted the strike, Mr. Esper recounts, writing that he would have thought it was a joke had he not been staring Mr. Trump in the face.”
Trump had also pushed to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists in 2019 before ultimately holding off on doing so at the request of Mexican President Lopez Obrador.
Mexican drug cartels, officially referred to as Mexican Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs), are the greatest drug trafficking threat that the U.S. faces, according to the DEA, which notes that they “control most of the U.S. drug market and have established varied transportation routes, have advanced communications capabilities, and hold strong affiliations with criminal groups and gangs in the United States.”
U.S. officials say that the Mexican cartels have established clandestine laboratories in Mexico for the synthesis of fentanyl and other drugs.
The Mexican drug cartels remain the primary source for illicit drugs ranging from fentanyl to methamphetamines in the U.S., and they produce the drugs in “industrial scale laboratories” with precursor chemicals that come from China.
“Chemical shipments are mislabeled at the origin, shipped to legitimate companies, and then diverted by the TCO and smuggled to the clandestine laboratories,” the DEA notes.
The DEA adds that the Mexican drug cartels “control most of the U.S. drug market and have established varied transportation routes, have advanced communications capabilities, and hold strong affiliations with criminal groups and gangs in the United States.”
“Mexican TCOs export significant wholesale quantities of fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana into the United States annually,” the report added. “DEA considers the following nine Mexican TCOs as having the greatest drug trafficking impact on the United States: Sinaloa Cartel, CJNG, BeltranLeyva Organization, Cartel del Noreste and Los Zetas, Guerreros Unidos, Gulf Cartel, Juarez Cartel and La Linea, La Familia Michoacána, and Los Rojos.”
This post was edited on 5/6/22 at 5:52 am
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:39 pm to burger bearcat
Should have been done ...
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:41 pm to burger bearcat
Walk tall and carry a big Patriot missile.
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:42 pm to burger bearcat
i miss seeing that beautiful orange bastard in the white house everyday
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:42 pm to burger bearcat
Clear and Present Danger
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:42 pm to burger bearcat
I don't believe it and anyway, special operators could get the job done with plausible deniability.
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:43 pm to burger bearcat
This post was edited on 5/5/22 at 9:43 pm
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:43 pm to Woobie
I hope he goes scorched earth when he gets elected.
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:43 pm to burger bearcat
I’m all for blowing up fentanyl labs but these operations grew because of weed being illegal for so long.
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:44 pm to burger bearcat
Seems pretty reasonable to me.
If Mexico can't handle their business and their inaction is helping to bring the ruination of our country, how could you blame someone for taking substantive action?
It's not war with the country of Mexico, it's a targeted strike of a known foreign enemy (the cartels).
What we are doing now sure isn't working...
If Mexico can't handle their business and their inaction is helping to bring the ruination of our country, how could you blame someone for taking substantive action?
It's not war with the country of Mexico, it's a targeted strike of a known foreign enemy (the cartels).
What we are doing now sure isn't working...
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:46 pm to burger bearcat
quote:
we could just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs, quietly,’ adding that ‘no one would know it was us,’”
The tried and true diplomatic stratagem of…
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:48 pm to AndyCBR
Merc the labs and scorch the weed fields with napalm just to piss off all the Cheeto-eatin’ Cheeches for good measure, LOL.
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:51 pm to burger bearcat
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Trump wanted to missile drug cartels in Mexico
If my tax dollars had to go towards something.. just be sure to video it
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:52 pm to burger bearcat
Is this supposed to be a smear? Trump is fricking awesome.
Posted on 5/5/22 at 9:53 pm to burger bearcat
Lol. He couldn't even build a wall that Mexico would pay for. Like he promised.
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