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    No he isn’t, he isn’t declaring war with mexico, that would be REALLY, REALLY stupid.

    This is one of his horrible attempts at negotiating with Mexico, but it just comes across as insanity.

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        The US hasn’t “technically” been at war since WW2. We weren’t “at war” during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War…

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          Only open war we’ve had since I can remember is the war on drugs and homelessness. Shows you were our priorities lie considering we haven’t done shit to address either.

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        Technically and laws don’t apply to this administration, if he were to declare war the Republicans would just predate a declaration of war and say it’s legal.

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    Call his bluff. He just wants to wag his dick around. So mexico should mobilize their army at the border and say “cross this line and you are declaring war.”

    Guaranteed someone up high makes him understand how politically stupid that would be. Probably in pictures. With small words.

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    Yeah, this is great. We’re going to (illegally) invade Mexico ane Venezuela simultaneously, while also occupying our own cities that don’t go along the paramilitary immigration Gestapo. Oh, and we’re also waging chaotic, impulsive trade wars with literally every country on Earth. Maybe we can get a ground war going in Russia as well, really speed run the imperial collapse.

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    really wondering how USA is intending to fix mexico after having flodded their country with guns undermining the local goverment.

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      My guess would be loads of bombs, drones and unnecessary suffering

      Mind you, this wouldn’t be anything different from the three day operation in Ukraine.

      The results wouldn’t be the same as Ukraine, there is no way that Mexico can defend itself against the US but…

      We got boat loads of Narcos there with US special forces training and guns supplied by the US and they know the territories like the back of their hands

      Sounds familiar? If anyone though Afghanistan nwas bad, wait until the first load of US soldiers are hanging from bridges or star in beheading videos, because that is what will happen when the US invades Mexico.

      That doesn’t even begin to talk about what Mexicans on US soil could pull off.

      The US would destroy Mexico, that’s for sure, because that is what the US does best, pretending it comes to liberate while absolutely devastating the country they invade, then it gets it’s ass handed back.

      México would destroy the US in kind. Not by conquering it or something, but by similar guerilla tactics that have been used in Afghanistan, etc. the amount of US soldiers coming back in coffins, combined nwith attacks on US soil will kill this joke of a presidency

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      Texas is gunna find out real quick what is like being a buffer state. Hope you assholes get the day you voted and/or were too lazy to vote for.

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      5 hours ago

      Not to worry. That perfect impenetrable wall that Trump had built during his first term will protect us all from the Mexican army.

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    I have honestly been saying this for years. Why are Americans stomping around the Middle East to stop half baked groups of religious insurgents when there are cartels right on their border and inside. We all know this is just posturing, as Americans and the GoP love bombing the Middle East and consuming cartel drugs

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      Yeah, I’ve had this thought for a while now. Why not fight the cartels and make Mexico a great place to live. Then we wouldn’t have so many trying to come to the US. It could unironically solve the “immigration problem” if done properly.

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    If the cartels turn Trump and his fellow MAGATs into gas station attendants, I wouldn’t mind. They are also welcome to burn down the ballroom.

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    The shithead-in-chief wants a war so he can declare martial law and end our chance to rid ourselves of his cancer.

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    He’s not going for cartels, the US supplies cartels with weapons and gives drugs to the US. That’s their cash cow!

    He is going because the political parties the US funds in Mexico are loosing popularity and they need to interfere before it’s too late.

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    Hey Poland Mexico… Here comes Germany The US to liberate you from your crime problem.

    Ffs. Call it what it is: The Fourth Reich

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    Oh this won’t go well.

    Cartels don’t… Care about war crimes. Like at all. Like less than Trump.

    These soldiers families are about to be at risk.

    Wild shit to go military on cartels.

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      Cartels don’t… Care about war crimes. Like at all. Like less than Trump.

      These soldiers families are about to be at risk.

      Do you think it would bother Trump if some cartel killers hung corpses from a bridge in the US? It would just allow him to expand his harassment and deportation of Hispanics in the US, give some appearance of legitimacy to a declaration of martial law.

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      Seriously, he does not have a single clue what he’s marching the US into. That’s going to be incredibly messy at best

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      Didn’t he want to fly families out to surprise his military minions in Afghanistan as well?

      Not too sure how tough the Marines will be when their kids start disappearing.

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    20 hours ago

    So like the same situation with those fishing boats? Just going to go and kill a bunch of people without a trial and claim they were cartels. ?