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Bulletins and News Discussion from February 3rd to February 9th, 2025 - Fuhrer Failsons

Image is of Elon Musk giving the Nazi salute a week or so ago.

I didn't really want to keep spotlighting American domestic events as I had assumed that shit would calm down pretty quickly, but it appears that the Trump administration, including Musk, are determined to bring down the empire from the inside.

One of the most important lessons of ruling a country - and especially an empire - is to never, ever believe your own propaganda; and yet now we have neo-Nazi failsons disrupting parts of the imperial apparatus and causing general government mayhem because they actually seem to believe in libertarianism; that the state and the capitalists are somehow in opposition, rather than working in lockstep to maximise profit and boost American hegemony around the world.

I'm not so optimistic as to believe that a national collapse is FOUR DAYS AWAY, like those weird anti-China cranks often speculate - the US has at least a decade or two left even under these conditions. But consider the damage being inflicted in these past couple weeks, and extrapolate that over the next four years. Does any living American political figure possess the competency to halt - or even meaningfully slow - the already ongoing decline? And could they achieve power (or even be allowed to do so) after Trump's term is done?

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  • Just a small update (or large in geopolitical meaning) on US military action around México and El Salvador. The US Coast Guard and Military planes that flew to El Salvador over Mexican airspace were not deportation flights as previously thought (the exact same US Coast Guard plane was used in deportation flights previously and photographed doing so by the Coast Guard themselves at the time, which is why deportation flights were suspected), these planes were actually part of a rescue operation/mission to look for a missing member of the US Coast Guard that fell overboard while operating off of the coast of Guatemala.

    Therefore, there is no current deal between El Salvador and the USA with regards to deportations and housing "violent gang members" in jails, despite hints at it by Rubio. Also, the use of Mexican airspace for this rescue operation was an exceptional case, and given that US military deportation flights to Guatemala still avoid México's airspace, I think it's safe to say that Mexico will not allow the US military to use their airspace in future, outside of this rescue mission.

    However, US reconnaissance flights are continuing on the border, and with plans designate the Sinaloa Cartel as a foreign terrorist organisation, these flights near their strongholds, and Mexican National Guard deployments there, start to make more sense.

    Coast Guard Searching Eastern Pacific for Missing Service Member, USNI News, 6 February 2025

    • Thanks for the updates.

      I think a US intervention becomes more and more likely at this point, after all you don't gather intelligence for the lulz. The thing is: What shape it'll have? To me they might be seeking to deploy special forces to eliminate the Cartels they want to destroy (Because let's be honest, the Cartels themselves are useful for the US). I don't think they'll do a massive bombing campaign, perhaps an "israeli" style "buffer zone" and complete militarization of a huge chunk of mexican territory to "stop the flow of people and drugs". Either way, such move would be a direct violation of Mexico's sovereignty and a massive escalation, perhaps even absolutely worsening the region for many years to come.

      • Is there anything in the cartel territory that they US would want in terms of resources? Might be useful to start doing maps of resources in the country overlaid with current territory control.

        This might actually benefit the Zapatistas in a way. The cartels have been hugely difficult for them and if they're replaced with US troops they will be resistance fighters against a foreign invader instead.

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