President Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night that the United States is “going to start now hitting land” in its fight against drug cartels—framing the move as a response to what he claimed is cartel control of Mexico and a U.S. death toll in the “250,000–300,000” range every year.
Why would I want nazis to be my friends? I just want them to murder some mafia heads. Any disruption to the status quo would be a gain for us, seeing how efficient their operation had become. You can’t even buy lemons or avocado without financing the cartels.
The thing with Trump is that he has no reason to want to kill the heads of organised crime. He benefits from cartel violence because it helps him to rhetorically justify US imperialism, so he has no reason to eradicate them.
If the US invades Mexico, the cartels will scatter like cockroaches to take shelter from the action, and then in the aftermath, they will leverage their efficient organisational infrastructure to cement their power even further. If the US invades Mexico, there is no way that this ends well for the Mexican people.
To Trump and his ilk, you look the same as any cartel member — except you’re a lot easier to kill.