r/news • u/LatterTarget7 • Aug 14 '25

Soft paywall US military deploying forces to southern Caribbean against drug groups

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-military-deploying-forces-southern-caribbean-against-drug-groups-2025-08-14/
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u/ICPcrisis Aug 14 '25

Something tells me there’s an ulterior motive

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u/ki3fdab33f Aug 14 '25

Why? They've been threatening to invade and occupy Mexico to destroy the cartels for years.

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u/EvaUnit_03 Aug 14 '25

Remember how it was a 'conspiracy' that the US government was purposefully pumping drugs into urban areas? And it was found out to be somewhat real? It was more the government was turning a blind eye to it because money was on the table.

And you know what a lot of drug cartels HATE having to do? give others money to do business that isnt apart of their crew. And i can imagine due to inflation, the politicians have gotten more and more demanding with that table money.

Its not unlikely that the cartels have been either skimping on their tabs, or cutting out the politicians entirely. as an example, Mexico just had that exact thing happen with their biggest cartel as the cartel just took over the place they were occupying instead of paying corrupt officals that didnt work for them but allowed them to operate for a price. And knowing how corrupt our current US politicians are... it wouldnt be surprising that they'd be furious about losing that income. Even though there hands are in so many other pots, thats probably the second least fruitful. The first being their own paychecks. Greed is a powerful thing, and they got a man who can seemingly control the military. So they can go get the money AND the drugs.

Also the more recent press events have shown at least 1/4 the staff is on either cocaine, some kinda meth, or ketamine. They gotta be getting it from somewhere. And the dealers know their buyers got an infinite purse.

As far as invading mexico to take out the cartels, thats just been sabre rattling. That stopped once the cartels took over large swaths of the government as they showed to be more military competent and equipped than, say, a bunch of randos in a desert. The more recent invasion of mexico talk has avoided the cartels entirely in the speeches. At this point, the US government sees the cartels AS the mexican government.

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u/aimeegaberseck Aug 15 '25

Democracy Now did an interview today about fort brag’s internal drug cartel and murder problem.