re: Your president is ready to send the Marines after the cartels

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The Cartels killed over thirty thousand Mexicans last year and they are heroes?

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I know it seems strange, but it’s true. Look up the Narcocorrido bands. They write ballads that celebrate the cartels and their music is massively popular over there.

you get what you want out of the military dude

If you sign up thinking you're going to be Audie Murphy toting three squad automatic weapons into battle on the back of a war elephant... you're probably going to have a bad time... If you sign up thinking you aren't going to have to do stupid shite, and not have to listen to orders you think are dumb, but don't fully understand why you're even doing what you're told... you're probably going to have a bad time.

but if you sign up knowing that it's mostly just a job that involves a lot of mind games to get people into a state of readiness and operational competency, followed by doing a lot of actual work around whatever field you're in... realizing that said work is very likely going to sometimes be boring, repetitive, and even make no sense occasionally....

then you can probably also keep the attitude that you're looking at a much bigger picture, where you are simply a piece of a larger puzzle that only really works with all of its pieces.

once you've started working as one of those pieces... and function well... then you can get a lot out of it. trust me on this

for some guys, they aren't even taught basic life lessons, because they had shite parents or no parents at all...or divorced parents. I see this all the time with soys... some guys are caught up in a bad situation with no real escape, but they still want to make something of themselves.

dudes like that, going to college or getting a regular job usually just isn't an option.

but the military -whether or not you're obeying the orders of an admin you may disagree with... it's made up of people who can usually build men into a much better version of themselves, if they are willing to actually put in the effort on their part.

that's where they will learn those life lessons, along with career training, and will get opportunities they probably never would have had without it. if you disagree with what I'm saying then direct be to the correct info because I'm intimately familiar with this situation

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But they will be quickly overwhelmed and outgunned by the Marines.

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.......and take no prisoners. Kill these animals.....kill them all.

I know people like to show pictures of dead children under 18 to undermine the U.S morale. SO yeah a war with the Cartel would be bad, and RoE ignore everyone under 18.

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But they will be quickly overwhelmed and outgunned by the Marines.

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that hasn't really worked out for the last 40 some odd years

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It's a massive waste of resources for starters. It's redundancy that isn't necessary. If we use our military in that capacity, CBP is insanely over-inflated. I know Trump's people love a huge federal government, but it's ridiculous to say CBP needs the military to help them do their job.

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Agreed. Loan them a drone or 2 and call it done



ETA: IF something just HAS to be done

I know exactly what you can get out of the military.

I'm not sure why you think any of that is relevant to what I posted.

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I haven't read all seven pages of this thread so I don't know if someone has already mentioned/asked the question. Nevertheless, here goes:

Why haven't we or why don't we invade Mexico and take it over and make it a part of the United States? It seems like this course of action would resolve all of the US Mexico issues other than wealthy business owners getting ridiculously cheep labor there. I mean, the Mexican government is worthless and is seems as if all of their citizens want to live here anyway. Instead of coming over here we can bring America to them. Plus, we would absolutely obliterate the drug cartel. We would either kill them all or run them into South America and then build a wall along Mexico's southern border.

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The Republicans would be too afraid, even though it would bring in a fairly conservative Christian population.

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Apache helicopters would work nicely for this!

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There's a nice squadron of A-10's in Tucson.




Just sayin'

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Dems would just promise them free shite and tell them republicans are racist over and over and turn them into socialists. We dont need more easily manipulated people that just want free shite.

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Yet we would suddenly get more competitive in the World Cup.