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“It has become hazardous now given the Mexican drug cartels’ increased military capacity and tactical competence,” Brandan Buck, a research fellow at Cato, wrote.

“Directing American Special Operations Forces against the cartels would put them up against a sizable near-peer competitor in asymmetric warfare, thus putting the US government into a position of little escalatory advantage.

“Such a move would not just force the American military into another quagmire; it would drop them into a morass up to their metaphorical waist.”

Cool, we are invading Mexico.

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[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 48 points 3 weeks ago

Have they tried just asking the CIA to stop financing them

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 31 points 3 weeks ago

Cia funded cartels face off against pentagon funded law enforcement

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 22 points 3 weeks ago

Wasn't that basically what Afghanistan was?

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

I was thinking of the headline regarding militias in Syria but I'm sure it applies to Afghanistan as well

[-] context@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

when they get money from the cia they're called "al qaeda" and when they get money from the pentagon they're called "isis"

[-] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 33 points 3 weeks ago

dude can you imagine when the cartels assassinate their first american president

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago
[-] D61@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago

"Leaded" Presidents kelly

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 17 points 3 weeks ago

If it happens in the next 4 years then yes, yes I can. I imagine something similar everyday in fact.

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 31 points 3 weeks ago

Special forces vs cartels trained by special forces

[-] jaywalker@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A tale at least as old as the CIA

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 29 points 3 weeks ago

I like how the article goes back and forth between calling him "a man dressed as a ninja" and just "a ninja," especially this line:

The ninja did not obey deputies' orders

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago

The ninja did not obey deputies' orders

Your laws don't apply to me mortal :shinobi:

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago
[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

Someone posted this scene not to long ago here to hexbear and it's so over the top and I love seeing all the cops get got by ninja man.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

My favorite kill is the throwing star thrown from between his toes into the helicopter pilot's head

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

And just when you think he's dead, nope, hiding under the ground like a true baller.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

Only a ninja can kill a ninja

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

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[-] coolusername@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Projectile rounds were used "but were ineffective," it added.

HAHAHAHA

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago

This is why ninja traditionally carry a variety of weapons. If a sergeant from 160th SOAR jumps a fence you have to have your dart gun ready to go, loaded with fentanyl or meta-cyanide darts.

[-] P1d40n3@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago

Invade Mexico, Defend Ukraine, Defend Taiwan, Defend Israel...where are all these new troops coming from? How overstretched can one Empire be?

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 16 points 3 weeks ago

Keep that dial tuned to the capitalist apocalypse for answers to these and other exciting questions!

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago

i want these fascisti going home in bodybags but i don't want the mexican people to pay for it sadness

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago

Hell yeah, can't wait to hear the Narcocorridos that come out of this

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

it's going to have the orange in the title or the song; something like "the orange monkey"

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

El Mono Naranja no es macho

Solamente come nachos

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

create the black market, create the supply chains, arm the dealers, send in the special forces

[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago

Assuming the cartels are suitably powerful, I'm all for this. No better way to get people to stop supporting the military: many dead Americans and an increase in the price of necessities (drugs from cartels).

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[-] Des@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

legit ptsd from that maybe spoiler?

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Formerlyfarman@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

It would be very funny if the cartels start doing terrorism in the us. You'd love to see it.

[-] OrionsMask@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

About fucking time someone did

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

no-oil Dangit, I was hoping I did a good enough job y'all would Never Forget

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's only american cartels doing terrorism in mexico.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

Any war the USA starts is guaranteed to be a quagmire because the USA will half-ass it like they always do in order to save money, thereby actually costing more in the long run.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

in order to save money

Actually, they spend an absurd amount of money on their wars, what you mean is maximize profits for the military contractors.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

The purpose of a system is what it does. We must therefore conclude that the purpose of US "interventions" is to create quagmires and failed states while generating massive profits for the military-industrial complex.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Good point. The "savings" is just costs siphoning off to fill MIC coffers.

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[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

On the one hand, I don't want them to invade and "accidentally" regime-change a progressive Mexico gov't, under Claudia Sheinbaum sicko-no

On the other, if the gov't is overthrown anyway, an Afghanistan-esque war might be a boon to stopping America's hegemony...

[-] Lemister@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

Wow just like Fallout!

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

But Doctor, I am Pagliacci

[-] sawne128@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

It won't work because American leaders are all drug addicts.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

When the state is run by a fascist man baby who watches too much GI Joe...

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