The cartels are Billion dollar entities that have insanely diverse lines of business. An all out war with them would destabilize western currencies.
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You can edit the title to correct spelling you know.
For the question at hand, I think it’d be very messy.
I couldn’t help correcting it in my head as I tried to figure it out:
If America and Mexico did an all-out “WAR” against the cartels, what would it look like?
Let’s give OP the benefit of the doubt, maybe he was directly in the line of fire or next to an exploding car on the streets of Mexico when he posted this question.
We’ll handle it, thanks. We don’t need the US meddling in our territory.
You mean if the US invaded Mexico?
Read your question again, carefully.
Then edit the post to correct it.Reminds me of the time I accidentally a bottle.
Lol don’t forget golf at the yard stick
Messy urban warfare.
Assuming cooperation with the Mexican government, the USA would likely launch several raids against cartel strongholds similar to the Maduro raid. Whether the cartel leaders are brought to justice or just immediately assassinated is up for grabs, but I expect several extrajudicial killings.
The situation will devolve as the power vacuum causes additional killings including some punishing of the Mexican federal government. This destabilization is likely going to require an occupation; I expect that the USA would want Mexico to fill those posts first but may get pulled in as the Mexican military runs out of logistical capacity and the US military has to start filling in more and more gaps.
At a point, the war against the cartels becomes viewed as an American occupation instead of an internal Mexican action and it causes the population to turn against both federal governments.
So…things have been written about this. The biggest issue in Mexico is the space between cities.
You move into one area and clear it out, anyone left leaves to join others in some other places and then you have to move the police force to wherever the new outbreak starts.
It’s Guerilla Warfare. It’s not impossible to stop with force, but it takes a long time. The fastest way to stop the Cartels is by Supply Suffocation, either by product, or by banking.
The trick here is that Cartels know this, and regularly rely on the law to prevent seizures of funds, and even recently have become money laundering operations for people wanting to traffic Chinese currency, so they are FLUSH with cash.
So in this specific case, it’s like fighting the Mafia. You can greatly reduce their operations by taking out the leaders, seizure of asset or product, and removing enforcers in their organizations, but you’ll always be left with a small contingent that will continue operating in some capacity.
The thing with Mexican Cartels is that they’ve strong armed themselves into legitimate businesses like agriculture (avocados are a big one), and it’s hard to find legal ways to prove that X business is funded by a Cartels when they are already laundering money. It could look like it comes from anywhere.
It’s a cat and mouse game until the larger population feels empowered enough to report members, or fight back themselves.
What?
If America and Mexico [started] an all [out] “WAR” against the cartels [what would it] look like?
Pretty sure they are asking what an all out war against the cartels would look like.
All out of course
I think it would the very bad. Cartels respond violently and death. Lots of people in Mexico and American. Bombs the and shooting target government
As a German, I found this article about the situation in Mexico and guns enlightening (you’ll need to translate it yourself): https://monde-diplomatique.de/!6132866
It would look the exact same as it has. Sinc every US president apperantly goes to war with Mexico for drugs and the cartel. But in all honestly, it’s not really the US’s problem other than the drugs they smuggle here.
