war horses, like Senator Lindsey Graham, want to bomb Mexico.
Ron DeSantis of Florida said he would send special forces into Mexico on “Day 1” of his presidency, targeting drug cartels and fentanyl labs.
This move targeted Mexican cartels and Chinese companies, which are accused of providing the ingredients to the cartels to manufacture fentanyl.
Of course, the United States is already fighting, and has been for half a century, a highly militarized drug war — in the Andes, Central America and, yes, Mexico — a war as ineffective as it has been cruel.
Hitting fentanyl labs won’t do anything to slow the bootlegged versions of the drug into the United States but could further destabilize northern Mexico and the borderlands, worsening the migrant refugee crisis.
Persons:
Donald Trump, Mark Esper, Mr, Trump, Mike Waltz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lindsey Graham, Ron DeSantis, Michael McCaul, It’s, Vance, MAGA
Organizations:
Gov, “, Chemical, Convention, Republican, Senate, Democratic
Locations:
Mexico, Florida, United States, Central America, West Virginia, Maine, House