I keep thinking about this every time our liberal journos try to stir shit against AMLO. Today we are enjoying another iteration of their never ending stream of open letters signed by disgraced journalists and intellectuals, the twist in this one is that they gathered 650 signatories, the claims are just hilarious saying that they are being persecuted and censored, absurd AMLO limits himself to clapbacks in his daily morning talks and this is what they are trying to equate to a vague understanding of authoritarianism its just so dumb. The cherry on top is that these pampered whores never criticized the openly documented system of media control pioneered by the president who launched our bloody war against the drug cartels.

All of this to say that I half remember that this was the same sequence played before deposing Evo, maybe a Biden admin is more open to the idea? His foreign policy is very worrisome for me.

  • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Intervention in Mexico would risk:

    1. Creating a failed state on America's southern border, which would mean
    2. A fuckton more immigrants, and possibly
    3. Whatever anti-U.S. guerilla group that springs up routinely seeking U.S. targets across the border.

    If you're going to play G.I. Joe you want to do it in a place where your victim can't easily hit back, and where the American public won't directly suffer the blowback.

    • czechvault [he/him,doe/deer]
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      4 years ago

      Intervention in Mexico would risk:

      1. Creating a failed state on America’s southern border, which would mean
      2. A fuckton more immigrants, and possibly
      3. Whatever anti-U.S. guerilla group that springs up routinely seeking U.S. targets across the border.

      I mean 1 and 2 is already been a given for a while now, that's not their problem. 3 is their problem. The destruction of the last thing holding this barely functioning system together could cause people abandoning all hope of ever recovering it. And turning towards more radical solutions, for better or worse.

      If you’re going to play G.I. Joe you want to do it in a place where your victim can’t easily hit back, and where the American public won’t directly suffer the blowback.

      and that's been the way it is with México-US relations (at least since Pancho Villa fucked with them and made them look like clowns when they invaded during the Mexican Revolution). However, the drug war has been the biggest breach of that contract, though in that case all parties are always under an uneasy alliance (US govt -Mexico govt -Cartels) while trying to fuck each other over.