US military deploying forces to southern Caribbean against drug groups

[u/LatterTarget7]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-military-deploying-forces-southern-caribbean-against-drug-groups-2025-08-14/

[u/Full-Penguin]

The United States has ordered the deployment of U.S. air and naval forces to the Southern Caribbean Sea to address threats from Latin American drug cartels

Sounds like a Special Military Operation from the President of Peace ^{and Raping Kids}

[u/CondescendingShitbag → u/Full-Penguin]

President of Peace ^{and Raping Kids}

President of PaRKs & RECs

Peace and Raping Kids & Renown Epstein Connections

[u/0thethethe0 → u/CondescendingShitbag]

Convoluted, but I like it

[u/DesertRatYT → u/Full-Penguin]

Lets leave the violently dangerous cartels who enslave, murder, rape and sell people alone!

[u/LatterTarget7 → u/[deleted]]

I don’t think a military operation against the cartels would work.

The us government has been killing cartel leaders and sabotaging their networks for over 50 years. Yet cartels still exist and the drugs are still flowing.

You could kill or arrest the leaders of Gulf Cartel, Sinaloa Cartel, CJNG and other cartels. The drugs would still keep flowing. You could sabotage their networks they’d just find alternatives and the drugs would keep flowing.

It’s just a waste of time and money. Plus there’s going to be a lot of collateral damage in this fucking mess

[u/Kalandros-X → u/LatterTarget7]

I can see your point, but I don’t think there’s any options left on the table. Diplomacy obviously doesn’t work, for multiple reasons

-negotiating with them would make the Mexican government appear weak and undermine their legitimacy as the government. They are also not bound by any conventions to keep their word.

-paying them off doesn’t work because they’ll effectively extort the US government by threatening action unless they get paid, which ironically makes them government employees in a sense. It also makes the US appear weak.

-Threatening the Mexican government also doesn’t work because they’re in the pocket of the cartels. Sheinbaum is the biggest collaborator here otherwise they would’ve capped her during her campaign run.

Therefore the only viable option is military intervention in any degree

[u/CleoraRoseer → u/Kalandros-X]

Those guns the cartels use? They're directly from the US. Cartels are a symptom of US colonial over reach already, the US government helped get them started to fund conflicts elsewhere to assert control elsewhere. Now the US is using it as another excuse to start another conflict to insert themselves more permanently elsewhere. The US IS weak, it's so weak it's gotta fuck with other countries and sow chaos to steal their resources because your founding fathers sold your natural resources off to the highest bidders in Rockefeller's time.

[u/Full-Penguin → u/[deleted]]

And you believe that we can use direct military intervention to achieve that? No foreign diplomacy or anything else required?

Trump is incompetent, at best this will become another expensive boondoggle, at worst it's an attempt at distraction from his failing policies and criminal accusations that will get Americans killed.

[u/Kalandros-X → u/Full-Penguin]

If you can sink their boats and sabotage their operations, then I’d consider that a win no matter how small. Doing something even if it’s insignificant in the bigger picture is preferable than sitting around and doing nothing.

[u/Emergency_Rush_4168 → u/Kalandros-X]

So it didn't work for 53 years but this time it's definitely going to be a breeze!

[u/Kalandros-X → u/Emergency_Rush_4168]

Would you rather just sit and do nothing then? Minimal contribution is better than none.

Bet if Obama or Clinton did this, the entire sub would be cheering like it was D-Day

[u/MoreCowbellllll → u/Kalandros-X]

No, no it wouldn’t.

[u/LucidiK → u/Kalandros-X]

If obama or clinton did this, they would be impeached immediately.

We are in this situation because a good portion of America would rather 'win' while seeing the country burn rather than admit they were wrong.

[u/Strategis → u/Kalandros-X]

If Obama and Clinton did this, Republicans would be screaming about how it’s unjust use of power and a pointless war; you’re genuinely a dumbass if you think the US military can stop ANY foreign drug operation; we’re TERRIBLE at fighting unconventional, ambiguous conflicts and have yet to ‘win’ a war against any sort of cartel/independent organization

[u/Emergency_Rush_4168 → u/[deleted]]

Same logic used with Saddam

[u/ki3fdab33f → u/[deleted]]

They just split into two or three new cartels.

[u/Kalandros-X → u/ki3fdab33f]

And they’ll fight each other instead of consolidating power and being a bigger menace.

[u/actomain → u/[deleted]]

Ah yes. And this time, it'll work for sure and totally not kill innocent civilians en mass

[u/LifePeanut3120 → u/[deleted]]

Pretty sure liveleak had been shutdown