James Bosworth, a collaborator for World Politics Review news outlet recommends taking Trump’s threats of U.S. military action in Mexico seriously.
When conservative commentators began suggesting earlier this year that then-candidate Donald Trump would use the U.S. military to attack Mexico’s drug cartels if he won the presidential election, the most common response was disbelief.
Dropping bombs on fentanyl labs and sending special operations forces to assassinate cartel leaders seemed too far-fetched to debate. This was especially true given Trump’s stances on U.S. military support for Ukraine and other hot spots in the world, which seemed to indicate a reduced global security role for the United States.
Yet, the fact that many reasonable analysts think military attacks on cartels are a bad idea and contradictory to Trump’s foreign policy positions elsewhere does not mean that he won’t launch them.
When asked about it by Fox News in July, Trump replied, “Mexico is gonna have to straighten it out really fast, or the answer is absolutely.” One of Trump’s defense secretaries during his first term, Mark Esper, says Trump asked for lists of military options for countering the Mexican drug cartels back then and was barely dissuaded from going that route.
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