“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.
On the one hand, I don't want them to invade and "accidentally" regime-change a progressive Mexico gov't, under Claudia Sheinbaum
On the other, if the gov't is overthrown anyway, an Afghanistan-esque war might be a boon to stopping America's hegemony...