“It has become hazardous now given the Mexican drug cartels’ increased military capacity and tactical competence,” Brandan Buck, a research fellow at Cato, wrote.
“Directing American Special Operations Forces against the cartels would put them up against a sizable near-peer competitor in asymmetric warfare, thus putting the US government into a position of little escalatory advantage.
“Such a move would not just force the American military into another quagmire; it would drop them into a morass up to their metaphorical waist.”
Cool, we are invading Mexico.
Invade Mexico, Defend Ukraine, Defend Taiwan, Defend Israel...where are all these new troops coming from? How overstretched can one Empire be?
Keep that dial tuned to the capitalist apocalypse for answers to these and other exciting questions!