And Americans were dumb enough to think this asshole was the anti-war candidate

Here's how that's going to go:

• He'll send in the military and they'll successfully kill some "drug dealers".
• Mexico will be (rightly) pissed AF.
• Mexico will retaliate by just ending all exports to the US of some essential goods (e.g. tomatoes, car parts).
• The price of those goods will skyrocket. Business will close. White people who voted for Trump will bitch that, "he's hurting the wrong people" again (leopards eating faces).
• Mexico will refuse to take "back" their immigrants because of Trump's bullshit.
• Trump will "suddenly" need to jail a lot more "illegals" that he's rounded up.
• They'll start making up stories about how all the millions of people in the concentration camps are nasty criminals and murderers... As an excuse for the poor treatment and blatant raping and murdering going on.
• Right wing media will tow the party line. Anyone defending the "criminals" (which will include families with children) is a traitor to the country.

History will repeat itself.

So, this is what you do to your #1trade partner

• Level 100% tarrifs on their goods

• dump millions of deportees on them

• invade them with military

IDK about you, but to me it sounds a little counter productive

Given the level of expertise in the trump regime, this can only possibly end with mexico reclaiming texas. I hope they rename it Alamonia. To remember.

Dude you'd never believe this I have donny gets assassinated by the cartel on my bingo card!

They’re going to use the Palestine strategy aren’t they?

“Oh there are drug cartels hiding in this hospital! Drug labs in this school! We need to bomb it! Humanitarian aid workers? They’re actually Hamas double agents! We mean drug cartels or whatever.”

"Breaking news: Invasion of Mexico halted by huge wall Trump built last term and then completely forgot about."

Trump has reportedly been gathering “battle plans” to attack drug cartels in Mexico since early 2023, with or without Mexico’s permission.

One source close to Trump told Rolling Stone about a plan for a “soft” invasion of the country, in which U.S. special forces would assassinate cartel leaders covertly

These actions vary in their level of force, including drone strikes and airstrikes against cartel targets such as drug labs, sending military advisers and trainers to Mexico, sending “kill teams” to the country, using cyberwarfare against drug lords and their organizations, and the assassination plan.

What's more amusing is how they've all cried about how illegals are invading the country. If we invade and annex Mexico, are they still illegals?

Mexico? Do you mean South Texas?

If this happened in a video game, this is how you’d end up in a bizzaro situation where you’d have Russian bases in Mexico. Trump has bad advisors.

This is hilarious, I just wrote a comment the other day stating:

"... If Mexico goes socialist for any reason, will see Canadian soldiers in the front line annexing Mexico with the US."

And the response I got was "Pure insanity"

I can't make it a fucking day without making a sardonic, cynical joke based on old sci-fi nerd shit till BAM yeah, getting degrees in poli sci and econ were a waste of time, my nerd sense as a child ( + the ability to discern fantastical elements from plausible elements of a story) was all that was actually needed to learn about the future.

So anyway, Ghost in the Shell timeline it is then.

Obviously minus the impossible robotic/cybernetic tech.

Season 2, Episode 14 of Stand Alone Complex.

Most of the episode is a flashback to the 2020's, where its established that America invades Mexico with the goal of stopping the cartels, and both sides are using PMCs/Mercenaries.

(Blackwater never went away, they just changed names a bunch of times, now they've merged/consolidated with a bunch of other similar PMCs into Constellis... Trump pardoned 4 of the Blackwater guys in the Nisour Square massacre in Iraq at the end of his last term, so they're obviously in his rolodex)

Haven’t we already demonstrated that we can’t successfully hold a mountainous desert against the will of its population in the modern era?

With the respect, the Trump team failed to invade the US Capitol when they controlled it's defense apparatus, they are more likely to kill themselves than succeed in any ground invasion.

So a "special operation" in Mexico.

This way they can deport all the Mexicans and still use them as cheap labour

as long as they're bickering internally and not doing anything else.. let 'em have at it.

And the world community will do nothing in response because the United States is singularly excepted from all international rules for some reason. It’s time for the world to start organizing, for real, against US economic and military hegemony.

This guy, along with his counterparts, are going to ruin America hard.

Mexican American War 2: Electric Boogaloo

So overall, I think mexico does need a third party to fight the cartels. Anyone living in mexico probably has family there. Andcthe cartels have soo much influence that they can get at just about anyone. So a local force just can't take the country back. Now the current government of mexico can't willingly let a third party in, because then the cartels would go after them. So something like this where the third party is unhinged enough to do it on it's own is actually a decent way for it to happen. So let trump start his war on the cartels. It might actually end up as a good thing. The next president can run on ending that war and cooperating with the Mexican government to give them true control of thier country again... because by then, hopefully the cartels are weakened enough to allow the government to win.
This feels like a broken clock is right twice a day kind of thing. He may accidentally bring about a good thing for all the wrong reasons.