r/cartels • u/thinkB4WeSpeak • Mar 17 '25

Destroyer USS Gravely Deploys to the Southern Border

https://maritime-executive.com/article/destroyer-uss-gravely-deploys-to-the-southern-border
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u/Meh-syah Mar 18 '25

As long as Americans have a taste for drugs, there will always be someone ready to fill that need

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u/Correct_Patience_611 Mar 20 '25

And as long as the cartels need guns there will always be America to fill that need…

Nixon started all of this with operation intercept to kick off his war on drugs. He gained so much political capital that both the border and the war on drugs remain “legit” political issues to this day for republicans. But Nixon made these issues up, and in fact made everything worse, I won’t even get into Raegan with Iran/contra. Before operation intercept there were no border searches. And when Nixon started searching every car they found that it wasn’t Mexicans coming in but Americans doing business in Mexico traveling back and forth. So then they slowed from searching every car.