Summary

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dismissed reports of a potential U.S. “soft invasion” to combat cartels as “entirely a movie,” emphasizing Mexico’s sovereignty as a free, independent nation.

The Rolling Stone report claims Donald Trump’s incoming administration is considering covert military operations in Mexico, including airstrikes and assassinations of cartel leaders.

While Trump and key officials like Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio support such measures, experts warn they could backfire by boosting cartel recruitment, undermining Mexican sovereignty, and fostering cartel-Mexican authority collaboration.

  • Blackout
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    5412 hours ago

    He’s not even in office yet and threatening war with Mexico. This is going to be a long 4 years

      • @[email protected]
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        108 hours ago

        The Nazis annexed 3 neighbors without even firing a shot.
        The US doesn’t even have 3 neighbors.

          • @[email protected]
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            36 hours ago

            Land connected countries I think it’s only two (direct neighbors): Mexico and Canada. Is there another country I’m missing? If we can continue down south we get into Guatemala and Belize. If we allow water traversal, then the Caribbean is full of places.

            I don’t see many of these locations not fighting back one way or another, either directly or through international responses. Germany at least had some casus belli for annexing territory through ethnic/cultural grounds and/or historical border European nation border changes. The US has no such thing to work with, we’d just be obviously complete assheads to annex anything at this point.

    • @RamblingPanda
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      2010 hours ago

      *Soft war. Just the tip.

      I still can’t believe America voted for this. Holy shit.

      • @[email protected]
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        510 hours ago

        I hope he tells all the troops its a soft war, has them walk leisurely across the boarder, to be met with a wall of mexican flac

    • @[email protected]
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      99 hours ago

      As long as it ends in 4 years. Otherwise it’s going to be much longer and much bloodier