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Did nobody from the CIA get to him fast enough to tell him they run the cartels?
this is gonna be fabulous, honestly. Seeing feds fight each other makes me happy.
This is not infighting, this is the point. Finance organised crime abroad to sow instability and undermine local governments, and use that instability as an excuse for intervention, usually in the form of loans, joint military operations, while also driving investment and labour away from that country towards the "safer" core.
Outright invasion only makes sense if the local government becomes insubordinate and refuses "help" (often due to becoming effective at handling the "cartels") or if the organised crime groups become politically active against imperial interests. In Mexico it's the former, in Haiti it's the latter.
so the play is most likely the embedded agents are all going to back out and territory will be seized, got it
lol you believe they actually want to attack the cartels? My sweet summer child
It makes sense actually. The cartels were pawns to be used. Sacrificing them to gain an advantage is also a valid use.
But what advantage?
Basically, when the US say "we will fight the cartels", they are really trying to say is to steal land for their transnational companies, plunder resources and to kill people that block their imperialist endeavors.
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