I disagree on your point of attention. Mexico is a monster of a problem. I will remind you that the US invaded Mexico twice, and we have never been able to bring a stable regime to power. It has been rampantly Leftist for longer than the US has. Even Santa Ana couldn't control Mexico, either during his time as dictator, or even after he was released. The only shot they ever had was a French monarch who was bequeathed to them to restore order, and for that he and his family were all killed. To this day, even Americans celebrate the murder and descent into chaos that is Cinco De Mayo. Mexico was never a French colony, it was just that the French wanted to give Mexico a stable government.
You want to fix Mexico? Understand that means boots-on-the ground, a 20 year war, colonization, a full scale civil war, and at least 500,000 dead with the Chinese probably deciding to send troops to protect some Leftists.
And the depth of the problem is severe. Mexican Communists and Mexican National Socialists are the same people arguing the same things. They were supported by the Obama administration. The governor of Arizona is tied directly to Mexican cartels.
Venezuela was an easy fix, and the fact that Mexicans and Cubans were killed in the raid protecting Maduro tells us a lot about the depth of the problem.
The best we can do is have troops in Mexico fighting cartels (we already do, and they've been there for years). The next problem is we have to figure out how to fight other cartels that are supported by the government without said government responding with major terror attacks in the US that will be blamed on ICE so that the dems can get back into power to support the cartels. Right now, Trump and Rubio are edging out Leftist Mexican terrorism across the hemisphere with political pressure. To actually deal with Mexico includes destabilizing the government and getting nationalist populists in charge that aren't National Socialists who want to invade the US. That's pretty hard to do when they keep dying. If you had a problem with US intervention and regime change, don't complain if that's what you want to happen in Mexico.
If you don't want military intervention, than realize that we need to start subsidizing gun manufacturers to start shipping weapons into Mexico to start that civil war.
I disagree on your point of attention. Mexico is a monster of a problem. I will remind you that the US invaded Mexico twice, and we have never been able to bring a stable regime to power. It has been rampantly Leftist for longer than the US has. Even Santa Ana couldn't control Mexico, either during his time as dictator, or even after he was released. The only shot they ever had was a French monarch who was bequeathed to them to restore order, and for that he and his family were all killed. To this day, even Americans celebrate the murder and descent into chaos that is Cinco De Mayo. Mexico was never a French colony, it was just that the French wanted to give Mexico a stable government.
You want to fix Mexico? Understand that means boots-on-the ground, a 20 year war, colonization, a full scale civil war, and at least 500,000 dead with the Chinese probably deciding to send troops to protect some Leftists.
And the depth of the problem is severe. Mexican Communists and Mexican National Socialists are the same people arguing the same things. They were supported by the Obama administration. The governor of Arizona is tied directly to Mexican cartels.
Venezuela was an easy fix, and the fact that Mexicans and Cubans were killed in the raid protecting Maduro tells us a lot about the depth of the problem.
The best we can do is have troops in Mexico fighting cartels (we already do, and they've been there for years). The next problem is we have to figure out how to fight other cartels that are supported by the government without said government responding with major terror attacks in the US that will be blamed on ICE so that the dems can get back into power to support the cartels. Right now, Trump and Rubio are edging out Leftist Mexican terrorism across the hemisphere with political pressure. To actually deal with Mexico includes destabilizing the government and getting nationalist populists in charge that aren't National Socialists who want to invade the US. That's pretty hard to do when they keep dying. If you had a problem with US intervention and regime change, don't complain if that's what you want to happen in Mexico.
If you don't want military intervention, than realize that we need to start subsidizing gun manufacturers to start shipping weapons into Mexico to start that civil war.
Not on the table, and wouldn't solve the problem anyway. You'd turn a narco state into a failed state.