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Take note how few people are commenting/demanding the Epstein files now compared to a few weeks ago.
The zone has flooded.
Call his bluff. He just wants to wag his dick around. So mexico should mobilize their army at the border and say "cross this line and you are declaring war."
Guaranteed someone up high makes him understand how politically stupid that would be. Probably in pictures. With small words.
I don't think we have enough time or crayons for that
Who else are we going to change the dissidents at? Are you going to kick off with the middle east or southeast asia, with these gas prices?
No he isn't, he isn't declaring war with mexico, that would be REALLY, REALLY stupid.
This is one of his horrible attempts at negotiating with Mexico, but it just comes across as insanity.
that would be REALLY, REALLY stupid
You know he is REALLY, REALLY, REALLY stupid right?
He technically can't declare war.
The US hasn’t “technically” been at war since WW2. We weren’t “at war” during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War…
Only open war we've had since I can remember is the war on drugs and homelessness. Shows you were our priorities lie considering we haven't done shit to address either.
No but he might declare a Special Military Operation. To be over in 3 days, also.
Technically and laws don't apply to this administration, if he were to declare war the Republicans would just predate a declaration of war and say it's legal.
Yeah, this is great. We're going to (illegally) invade Mexico ane Venezuela simultaneously, while also occupying our own cities that don't go along the paramilitary immigration Gestapo. Oh, and we're also waging chaotic, impulsive trade wars with literally every country on Earth. Maybe we can get a ground war going in Russia as well, really speed run the imperial collapse.
Don't forget Nigeria! You know, the oil rich African country with 60 million military aged (18-35) men.
There's so much terrible news all the time, I legitimately don't know if we've threatened to attack Nigeria or not
I feel this. I want to play a game and check out, but I sliced the fuck out of left index finger a few days ago...
Throw in a land war in Asia
Classic blunder
So peaceful. Give this man 2 Nobel peace prizes.
If he incurs on Mexico, I fully expect Mexico to declare war.
Texas is gunna find out real quick what is like being a buffer state. Hope you assholes get the day you voted and/or were too lazy to vote for.
Not to worry. That perfect impenetrable wall that Trump had built during his first term will protect us all from the Mexican army.
If the cartels turn Trump and his fellow MAGATs into gas station attendants, I wouldn't mind. They are also welcome to burn down the ballroom.
The shithead-in-chief wants a war so he can declare martial law and end our chance to rid ourselves of his cancer.
Hopefully cancer will rid us of him first. All the medical talk about him recently has me hopeful.
This must be how the people in a Civs world must feel. Like things, just not making any sense.
Watch out for Gandhi
He’s not going for cartels, the US supplies cartels with weapons and gives drugs to the US. That’s their cash cow!
He is going because the political parties the US funds in Mexico are loosing popularity and they need to interfere before it’s too late.
Hey ~~Poland~~ Mexico... Here comes ~~Germany~~ The US to liberate you from your crime problem.
Ffs. Call it what it is: The Fourth Reich
Hey Ukraine, here comes Russia to liberate you from your Nazi problem.
He saw big boy Vlad do it and wants to copy his idol.
“It will be easy, it will be quick and we are sure to win” Charles the Ist, 1642, John Burgoyne, 1777, Napoleon, 1812, Hitler, Nixon, W Bush, the list of everyone who falls for it is long lol
Just a special military operation, 4 days maximum
The turd reich
Oh this won't go well.
Cartels don't... Care about war crimes. Like at all. Like less than Trump.
These soldiers families are about to be at risk.
Wild shit to go military on cartels.
Cartels don’t… Care about war crimes. Like at all. Like less than Trump.
These soldiers families are about to be at risk.
Do you think it would bother Trump if some cartel killers hung corpses from a bridge in the US? It would just allow him to expand his harassment and deportation of Hispanics in the US, give some appearance of legitimacy to a declaration of martial law.
Sounds like this is the planned outcome actually.
Seriously, he does not have a single clue what he's marching the US into. That's going to be incredibly messy at best
Uh, pay attention, the US has been marching stupidly into shit shows since the Korean war. Did we learning nothing from MASH?
Learning things is un-American.
So like the same situation with those fishing boats? Just going to go and kill a bunch of people without a trial and claim they were cartels. ?
I have honestly been saying this for years. Why are Americans stomping around the Middle East to stop half baked groups of religious insurgents when there are cartels right on their border and inside. We all know this is just posturing, as Americans and the GoP love bombing the Middle East and consuming cartel drugs
Yeah, I've had this thought for a while now. Why not fight the cartels and make Mexico a great place to live. Then we wouldn't have so many trying to come to the US. It could unironically solve the "immigration problem" if done properly.
Can we just... not?
The Military Industrial Complex forces the US to always be at war somewhere around the world. Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Palantir (the big one now), and many others are the reason the US is doing this military campaign. Gotta keep those shareholders happy.