Mexican president dismisses possible ‘soft invasion’ by U.S. troops as ‘a movie’: ‘We will always defend our sovereignty’
Mexican president dismisses possible ‘soft invasion’ by U.S. troops as ‘a movie’: ‘We will always defend our sovereignty’
"Mexico is a free, independent, sovereign country, and that is above everything else," said Claudia Sheinbaum.
Summary
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dismissed reports of a potential U.S. “soft invasion” to combat cartels as “entirely a movie,” emphasizing Mexico’s sovereignty as a free, independent nation.
The Rolling Stone report claims Donald Trump’s incoming administration is considering covert military operations in Mexico, including airstrikes and assassinations of cartel leaders.
While Trump and key officials like Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio support such measures, experts warn they could backfire by boosting cartel recruitment, undermining Mexican sovereignty, and fostering cartel-Mexican authority collaboration.
"soft invasion"? Do you mean some kind of "special operation"?
I wonder where these ideas are coming from?
Yeah. Reads like the same shit the CIA has been doing since there’s been a CIA
Any offensive attack against any central or south American country would cause a catastrophic chain of events that would end America as a global power. First it would not only put us at war with every central and South America country but most of the EU and UN nations. South and Central America countries would instantly nullify their anti nuclear weapon agreements. Add in the fact that a large percentage of US citizens have ties to those nation so instantly there would mass unrest in every state. Hell the military wouldn't be able to mobilize enough people willing to kill friends and family for an offensive war.
Fuckin wild that we’re reading shit like this.
He's not even in office yet and threatening war with Mexico. This is going to be a long 4 years
2016-2020 was filled to the brim with daily headlines of all the stupid, backward, hateful, fascist shit trump & co were up to. The next n years will be no better.
There’s a documentary about this situation on Paramount+ right now called Season 2 of Lioness
yeah im still trying to piece together the grammar in the title of this post.
This feels like musk motivation there it must be for lithium in Mexico.
You mean Mr “we’ll coup whoever we want”. Surely not.
If the fucker has 2 brain cells, he'd want a better battery.
Mexican president dismisses possible ‘soft invasion’ by U.S. troops as ‘a movie’
Aww, but I've already seen this one. It's called Sicario: Day of the Soldado.
Would the Mexican MAGAT voters support a US invasion of Mexico?
Hopefully Mexico won’t announce they found oil or lithium near cartel territories anytime soon.
Mexico doesn't have to announce it. The US is more than happy to make the announcement before them. Evidence includes "Yellow Cake", "WMDs in Iraq", and the fact that our incoming president lies without even thinking at all times.
That is how tv "celebrity" trump views the world. Drama is his life's blood.
Think the ML bears will be around to call out genocide?
So funny to me how Lemmy users love beefing with each other. They live in your head rent free. No one even said anything you're just sitting there creating situations in your head like the right wingers you "hate"
As an American, I have no one to support in this escalating conflict.
I hope they invade. I will enroll in the mexican army ahah I hate yanks
Go make guns and get them into schools then. Don't need to be in a war to made some Yanks dead. We'll fucking do it ourselves.
Personally I think it's high time Mexico accepts some help with their cartel problem. They've literally made zero progress after decades.
Legalise drugs and you collapse the cartels
That's up to Mexico to decide, gringo. Short your own shit first. Maybe end the stupidity of the war on drugs that caused the cartels to become economically powerful in the first place. Then let's talk.
This response right here is the statement that makes the border just get more and more violent. The US is just going to start pulling a Poland and kill anyone who attempts crossing-no questions asked-unless mexico taskes some actual action against the Sinaloa and gulf cartels.
So far all they do is get in bed with them and let the problem spiral to the point where they don't have to acknowledge law enforcement.
So call names and be racist all you want, this shit will happen regardless of what Mexico 'wants'. They're not powerful enough to get a say, that's just the way it is.
In case you do, here's a list of dozens of politicians murdered in cold blood this year: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_politicians_killed_during_the_2024_Mexican_elections
Now when you say "sort your own shit first", you don't mean politician murders, correct? Because that seems sorted.
It won't be, nor should it be, the US "helping"... we literally elected our cartel leaders to POTUS....
America need some help too. Organized crime in the US just merged with corporations and bought up most of the politicians. Now their crimes are mostly legal.
Wrong, the demand for the illegal drugs is in the USA and you need to cut that off.
Personalmente, espero que no seas yankee