Ron DeSantis Proposes Unprovoked War on Mexico

When asked in an interview how drone operators would know if the people being blown to smithereens were actually carrying drugs, he replied: “Same way a police officer would know … Same way somebody operating in Iraq would know. You know, these people in Iraq at the time, they all looked the same. You didn’t know who had a bomb strapped to them. So those guys have to make judgments.”

Holy F, as a mexican that crosses the border often for vacations... this is extreme and scary

How about a new rule that if you vote for a war, you are automatically enlisted. And if you're ineligible to enlist you must either abstain or vote no.

This is literal insanity.

Are they going to put Mexican Americans in internment camps next?

Slightly misleading, he says that they should shoot at mexican cartels (which are now federally recognised as terrorist organisations) who are using planes and boats to smuggle drugs.

He’s still a price of shit who wants to eliminate rights though, but it’s always important to get the facts right.

The US has been waging unprovoked war on Latin America since before WW1.

The only thing new about this is that this irredeemable piece of garbage is stating the quiet part out loud.

This cunt talks about Iraq like he did something there. He was a fucking lawyer 😂.

Bruh you've gotta use vague signals and let the think tanks work with journalists to manufacture consent first.

It continues to amaze me how dumb half of America is.

Psychopathic, how can a politician like this have any popular support

Dude is trying so hard to appeal to Trump's base, but it isn't working.

Nothing is more American than invading other countries and murdering their people.

Certain groups in the US have been building up to this for a while. They genuinely do want a war with Mexico. They've been trying to use drugs as an excuse to do it.

Here is an excellent video going into this when it all started to get quite serious and AMLO (mexican president) started to aggressively fight back against it: https://youtu.be/3dw1pcDoewY

He's also called the american media sphere trying to build up to this fascistic "hitlerismo", comparing american media to goebbels.

Does the "Presidents approval rating increase during wartime" thing occur if you just loudly state "I'm gonna do a war if elected"?

He heard they had pudding

Edit: apparently I'm a Russian bot lmfao

"They aren't sending their best" used to be mask-off messaging that seemed too far.

Before anyone calls this hyperbole:

Ron DeSantis recently suggested that he would be open to ordering drone strikes on Mexican drug cartels and migrants, whom he accused of carrying drugs over the border. “We’re authorizing deadly force. They try to break into our country? They will end up stone-cold dead,” he said, and he’s not alone. Trump, Reps. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) and Mike Walsh (R-FL), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Trump’s former deputy secretary of homeland security Ken Cuccinelli have all proposed various military actions in Mexico, up to and including sending in ground troops.

the guy decided to run against a religious icon, and now he's eating so much shit it's incredible

This is why Trump will win. Trump maybe dumb, but he's not that stupid to go around telling peoples he gonna invade this and that.

The two biggest things we could do to curb the cartels in Mexico there is absolutely no political appetite for.

First we need a real federal gun registry database to start drying up the influx of weapons. Almost every gun in Mexico came from the US, almost half of the trace requests come up blank because these forms are all filed on paper in a warehouse that they aren't even allowed to index properly. The most nauseating thing is the gun Industry is in on it... don't believe me? Look up (38 Super El Presidente model).

Second we need to legalize drugs. You can make it so it needs to be bought through a doctor and or psychiatrist, but make all that shit pennies on the dollar. Weed revenue might have dried up, but a significant portion of the rest of their revenue comes from harder drugs.

This guy is just trying to out-asshole the orange king of assholes. It's so weird to see people trying to gain popularity by trying to prove how horrible they are.

As an NPA living in floriduh, ill tell you what moment in this timeline meatball ron lost the race. He went after disney...dumb rednecks hate blacks but, fucking with disney?! hell nah..if Ron goes after Chick Fil A? they'll likely mob lynch him on the spot.

Mexico will win but okay. i hope they annex my state and i can afford to go to school & a doctor 👍

Reminded me of this

Haven't we learned our lesson about unprovoked wars after watching East Europe for the past year and a half??

@emizeko - not sure if you're a Russian troll or a poor American doing the real fascists' work for them--but I'm sorry for you my friend and hope the best for you. If you missed it in my other comments, I'm currently serving in the US military and am very confident that Western media at large is on the money, and that a novice OSINTer could refute the fanfic you posted. Best wishes.

This dude is desperate to be the most hated piece of shit in existence.

Is this guy the best that the Republican party has to offer?

this is really the natural end point of their racist rhetoric

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This ghost in the shell adaptation looks promising

The Mexican government has also responded to these proposals with scalding outrage. As Zach Beauchamp points out at Vox, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at a press conference that “We won’t allow it. And not only are we not going to allow it, we’re denouncing it.” Even a single drone attack would seem highly likely to end up in a direct confrontation with the Mexican military.

That's the important part of the article. It may be worth discussing whether to use the US military against drug cartels, but doing it without the full consent of the Mexican government would be batshit crazy.

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Republicans trying really hard to make Trump look normal.

Haven't we all thought about starting an unprovoked war with Mexico when we're bored!?

Lol

If he wants to fire the first shot, launch him across the Rio Grande with a trebuchet.

Nazi.

Just republican shit.

The real war is hate media memes and messages that trickle down to those obedient to voices from the clouds, electric voices these days. In the old days, books that said burning bushes gave out signals.

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oh look he's trying to do the Trump thing.

I hate DeSantis as much as the next guy but cmon, this title is misleading. He said he would "drone strikes cartels," not that he wanted to go to war.