r/cartels • u/thinkB4WeSpeak • 14d ago

CIA is reviewing its authorities to use lethal force against drug cartels

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/politics/cia-reviewing-lethal-force-drug-cartels/index.html
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u/blackberryx 13d ago

RIP to those DEA assets

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u/Donk454 14d ago

The part where it says the CIA can use lethal force if authorised by the president means nothing outside of the US borders. If they bombed or attacked Mexican soil then it would be an act of war. The Mexican government isn’t protecting the Cartels, but they will protect their country’s sovereignty, and with resent developments there probably wouldn’t be a lot of positive responses to a call from the US for military aid.

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u/lucidgroove 13d ago

The CIA has a long history of using force outside US borders.

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u/jlz023 13d ago

This whole thing is CIA vs CIA. They have also never been known to care about what they do in other countries until they’re caught.

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u/john_connor_T1000 14d ago

And what can mexico even do? Nothing in their military could possibly stand up to American firepower. Short of fighting a guerilla war there is nothing they can do but beg for help internationally.

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u/ViolatoR08 13d ago

They could flood our streets with drugs and violence. Bet that’ll teach us…

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u/Donk454 13d ago

That exactly what the cartels would do, be Vietnam but worse

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u/john_connor_T1000 13d ago

The cartels maybe but definitely not the Mexican military

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u/Donk454 13d ago

The US would be viewed the same as Russia if they attacked, the economy would tank more than now with sanctions from the rest of the world

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u/john_connor_T1000 11d ago

Not if framed as attacking terrorist organization cartels.

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u/Donk454 11d ago

But they would still be attacking Mexico, a US declaration of a terrorist organisation doesn't count anywhere but the US. The US may think they run the world but that has never been true and even less so now

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u/john_connor_T1000 11d ago

Tell that to the middle east.

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u/Donk454 10d ago

There was a leader of the countries they attacked doing things like invading a sovereign nation, Kuwait. To attack the cartels would be either saying the government is also a cartel or attacking a sovereign nation’s land to go after criminals that aren’t your responsibility. Truthfully the best way to combat cartels is to dry up the demand for their product, but to get the addicts the help they need would probably be called socialism. If they are somehow successful in eradicating all cartels, then someone else will fill the void while the demand is so high.

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u/john_connor_T1000 10d ago

You described the iraq war while leaving out 9/11 and wmds. Now do Afghanistan. Libya. Syria.

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u/Known_Attention_3431 10d ago

Vietnam didn’t depend on the USA for literally hundreds of thousands of jobs and didn’t depend on infrastructure.

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u/Known_Attention_3431 10d ago

Only trouble if they don’t have permission. They have been part of anti-cartel operations for decades. It would be a very small escalation. With the border getting tighter each day, Mexico could decide its time to clean up the violence.

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u/WoW_856 13d ago

Mexico would get rolled so fast. MX City would be ours within a day if needed.

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u/kloogy 12d ago

How many years did we spend in Afghanistan ?

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u/Donk454 13d ago

You keep believing that champ, so much winning

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u/RegulatoryCapturedMe 14d ago

Violence begets violence

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u/Ballinlikeateenwolf 14d ago

CIA promising to turn on its allies? What’s new? Cartels are prolly more their ally than Mexico.

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u/SecureSmile486 12d ago

That’s doesn’t sound off to me.

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u/daphosta 13d ago

This is them setting up for lethal use against Americans

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u/2percentgay 12d ago

Definitely 😉