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Apparently, Trump’s enthusiastic about bombing Mexico now

Editorial Board Published April 8, 2025
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The Trump administration is reportedly contemplating unilateral drone strikes on Mexico purportedly to fight drug cartels trafficking fentanyl. If the strikes happen with out Mexican cooperation, it might be the most recent occasion of the administration creating friction with longtime American allies.

At present, the U.S. is making surveillance flights as a part of an intelligence amassing operation in opposition to the cartels, however these are being finished with Mexican cooperation. A former official advised the outlet the flights are getting used to “build a target deck.”

Specialists advised NBC that drone strikes aren’t a great way to fight unlawful drug trafficking.

Mike Vigil, former head of DEA worldwide operations, stated that the medicine being transported are so small and transportable that they’ll shortly be moved round within the case of a strike. 

“It’s not a military problem. It’s more of a law enforcement problem,” he defined.


Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth

Scandal-plagued Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly warned Mexico’s high army officers in February that the U.S. was ready to take unilateral motion in opposition to the cartels. The Wall Road Journal reported that their sources who had been briefed on the decision advised them Mexican officers had been “shocked and angered” by the suggestion the U.S. army might act militarily in opposition to its southern neighbor.

President Donald Trump has lengthy been obsessive about attacking Mexican targets. Former Protection Secretary Mark Esper revealed in his 2022 ebook that in 2020 Trump twice requested him about utilizing missiles to “destroy the drug labs” in Mexico.

Whereas the U.S. has labored with Mexico on combating the drug drawback, a army assault on the extent of drone strikes could be an escalation and a provocation.

Underneath Trump, conventional American allies have been repeatedly antagonized. Canadian sentiment has turned in opposition to the U.S. after Trump launched new tariffs and has repeatedly invoked the notion of taking on the sovereign nation. Hostilities with Denmark have flared after Trump introduced up the concept of occupying Greenland.

Trump has additionally precipitated tempers to flare with longstanding American buying and selling companions within the European Union and throughout Asia along with his determination to impose tariffs on a number of items. The tariffs have precipitated huge inventory market drops and can trigger the costs of many items to extend.

The core justification for doable drone strikes in Mexico stands on even shakier floor past upsetting allies. Underneath the Biden administration, deaths from fentanyl and different substances blamed for overdoses started to say no in 2024.

That reversed a pattern that Trump did not fight in his first time period, when he ran for workplace promising to place an finish to the opioid disaster. That by no means occurred.

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