The title comes from a Tom Clancy… Jack Ryan movie ……
In the movie an American President send’s covert Special Operations troops into Columbia to hunt down drug traffickers…..
Things get sideways and the operation gets cancelled , BY THE PRESENT, who knowws nothing about it, and the troops get hunted down requiring a rescue….
Donald Trump wanted to just send the guys in to hunt down the drug trafficking cartel’s…..
such an action it was pointed out to Trump would be illegal and dangerous and a just plain stupid…
a second Trump administration might see a try for the same stupid stunt….
IF HE WINS a second term in November, Donald Trump wants to covertly deploy American assassination squads into Mexico soon after he’s sworn into office again, according to three people who’ve discussed the matter with the former U.S. president.
Both during and after his presidency, the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee has floated different ideas for bombing or invading Mexico in response to the American fentanyl crisis and to “wage WAR” on notorious drug cartels. As president, Trump even thought it was possible to bomb the cartels’ drug labs, and then potentially pin the strikes on another country, according to his former defense secretary, Mark Esper.
What was once a fringe notion that senior Trump administration officials quickly moved to shut down has now become a mainstream GOP policy proposal, including among influential Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill and conservative think tanks.
Trump is currently campaigning for the White House on a public vow to, in his words, “make appropriate use of Special Forces, cyber warfare, and other overt and covert actions to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure, and operations.”….
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As Rolling Stone reported last year, Trump directed his policy advisers to supply him with a menu of military options for attacking Mexican drug cartels, if he reconquers the White House. This included scenarios for potential air strikes, drone attacks, U.S. troop deployments, and other forms of warfare, for taking on the major drug cartels’ leaders, who Trump has long derided as some “bad hombres.”
Just a few short years ago, the concept of a Trump or any modern administration invading or bombing Mexico — including without the cooperation of Mexico’s president — would have been widely viewed as a fanciful scheme or a mere outburst, even coming from a figure as extreme as the 45th commander in chief. However, in recent years, the policy prescriptions have gone far beyond Trump’s venting of frustrations, and entered the Republican Party mainstream….
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This COULD be seen as a American President ‘invading’ Mexico a place millions of Americans travel to for vacation ….
A place that does a TON of trading with America….,
A place that HAS a whole of American’s living there that could become pawn’s in a Trump misguided and short sighted action…