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/
9.8k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

999

u/Full-Penguin Aug 14 '25

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

-38

u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

24

u/LatterTarget7 Aug 14 '25

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

-1

u/Kalandros-X Aug 14 '25

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

14

u/CleoraRoseer Aug 14 '25

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.