By Paul Wallis
August 10, 2025
DIGITAL JOURNAL
Mexico says it no longer wants helicopter gunships and other weapons from the United States to fight drug cartels, calling for a new approach - Copyright AFP/File PAUL J. RICHARDS
If you thought the Vietnam War was fun, this will be much worse and far more expensive. The US military could not possibly be less suited to fighting a bag-by-bag war across the Americas.
Mexico is not at all happy with the idea of a “US invasion”. Neither is anyone else. America’s new hobby of endless impractical threats to neighbors impresses nobody, and it won’t work, anyway. This is Manifest Decrepitude, not Manifest Destiny. It’s also Manifestly Dumb.
FOX News and the rest of America’s plodding brain-dead political illiterati seem happy about yet another war, a surefire symptom of impending disaster.
The theory is that the US military, in white hats, presumably, will take on the cartels. The US military also clearly has nothing better to do. There are obviously no other issues requiring its attention. You’d achieve more with a few properly targeted RICO charges.
It’s a recipe for an Apocalypse Now scenario, more like an Apocalypse Sometime Or Other When We Figure Out What The Fondue We’re Supposed To Be Doing. Exactly like Vietnam, there are no clear objectives.
Let’s get out the old stone tablet for a checklist:
The mere mention of the US military instantly translates to “billions of dollars,” regardless of what it does. Fuel and time alone, for any single operation, would be unbelievably expensive.
If the problem is drugs getting into the US, the cartels are far less of a problem than the third parties who do the actual importing. The cartels don’t work like that anymore and haven’t done business like that for well over a decade. Things are done at arm’s length, preferably other people’s arms. They source and sell drugs. They don’t do the heavy lifting because they don’t have to do it.
Any amount of daily fentanyl or cocaine can get into the US with almost no involvement from anyone but the buyers. They do the importing, and all the cartels need to do is collect the money, not handle the drugs or anything else.
The entire drug trade could be defined as the result of a few phone calls. Are you going to be constantly firing Tomahawks at phones for decades?
The money doesn’t hang around in convenient locations, either. Are you going to send Delta Force to raid a Swiss bank account?
Opioids, in particular, can come from anywhere. Targeting the Americas in general is beyond absurd.
This is modern organized crime, not some comic book. You need very high level intelligence to track it. You’ve just fired nearly all of your experts.
The cartels can afford to disappear whenever they feel like it. They can dodge any move and pop up anywhere. They say Norway’s nice this time of year.
Does anyone really think that people with all those billions of dollars are just naturally going to sit around waiting to get shot at?
Imagine a gigantic military with nothing worth shooting at, running around two continents pretending to be achieving something.
Forget World War 3. This will be like World War 10, with genius commentary.
Mexico says it no longer wants helicopter gunships and other weapons from the United States to fight drug cartels, calling for a new approach - Copyright AFP/File PAUL J. RICHARDS
If you thought the Vietnam War was fun, this will be much worse and far more expensive. The US military could not possibly be less suited to fighting a bag-by-bag war across the Americas.
Mexico is not at all happy with the idea of a “US invasion”. Neither is anyone else. America’s new hobby of endless impractical threats to neighbors impresses nobody, and it won’t work, anyway. This is Manifest Decrepitude, not Manifest Destiny. It’s also Manifestly Dumb.
FOX News and the rest of America’s plodding brain-dead political illiterati seem happy about yet another war, a surefire symptom of impending disaster.
The theory is that the US military, in white hats, presumably, will take on the cartels. The US military also clearly has nothing better to do. There are obviously no other issues requiring its attention. You’d achieve more with a few properly targeted RICO charges.
It’s a recipe for an Apocalypse Now scenario, more like an Apocalypse Sometime Or Other When We Figure Out What The Fondue We’re Supposed To Be Doing. Exactly like Vietnam, there are no clear objectives.
Let’s get out the old stone tablet for a checklist:
The mere mention of the US military instantly translates to “billions of dollars,” regardless of what it does. Fuel and time alone, for any single operation, would be unbelievably expensive.
If the problem is drugs getting into the US, the cartels are far less of a problem than the third parties who do the actual importing. The cartels don’t work like that anymore and haven’t done business like that for well over a decade. Things are done at arm’s length, preferably other people’s arms. They source and sell drugs. They don’t do the heavy lifting because they don’t have to do it.
Any amount of daily fentanyl or cocaine can get into the US with almost no involvement from anyone but the buyers. They do the importing, and all the cartels need to do is collect the money, not handle the drugs or anything else.
The entire drug trade could be defined as the result of a few phone calls. Are you going to be constantly firing Tomahawks at phones for decades?
The money doesn’t hang around in convenient locations, either. Are you going to send Delta Force to raid a Swiss bank account?
Opioids, in particular, can come from anywhere. Targeting the Americas in general is beyond absurd.
This is modern organized crime, not some comic book. You need very high level intelligence to track it. You’ve just fired nearly all of your experts.
The cartels can afford to disappear whenever they feel like it. They can dodge any move and pop up anywhere. They say Norway’s nice this time of year.
Does anyone really think that people with all those billions of dollars are just naturally going to sit around waiting to get shot at?
Imagine a gigantic military with nothing worth shooting at, running around two continents pretending to be achieving something.
Forget World War 3. This will be like World War 10, with genius commentary.
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