[Salon] Sen. JD Vance endorses the U.S. military’s going after drug cartels in Mexico

[Todd Pierce <todd.e.pierce@icloud.com>]

Thank God for the Republicans and Peter Thiel’s New Right represented here by Vance! A war with Mexico is long overdue! (Sarcasm, for those who can’t recognize it.) And of course this is true: "American presidents should have the power to deploy the U.S. military to pursue drug cartels in Latin America, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, said on NBC News' "Meet the Press" in an interview that aired Sunday.” Right? 

And therefore, anywhere else, logically. This is what the New Rightists mean by an “interest based” war policy, as is obvious to anyone with eyes to read and a mind to actually “think.” There’s always “interests” which only the US military can protect/defend, especially around China and Iran, with Russia a mere mopping-up operation with the elimination of China from the world scene. 

But it’s not just Vance here. He’s merely in front (and a “front,” for Thiel) with the Republican Party and his “New Right restrainers” in lockstep behind him, as he’s Peter Thiel’s man in Congress. And Thiel’s “public service” surveillance company Palantir will need to surveil US citizens who potentially could be involved in this drug trade, so it's only right that Thiel’s man should take the lead in promoting this to the American people! (More sarcasm) 

It’s called a “cognitive operation” and probably no one in the U.S. is more knowledgeable of waging that than the Schmittian/Straussian (fascist, for short) Peter Thiel, and his clones, as they’ve demonstrated acting through the "New Right/National Conservatives,” in fraudulently pushing a false narrative of “Right-wing peaceniks.” When looking at the actual evidence proves otherwise. But they know looking at bona fide evidence isn’t how most people “think,” but instead, they’re most responsive to "emotional appeals,” even when they drip with falsehoods. Ask DJT and his 2016 “campaign braintrust” which could trace their “genealogy” back to Joe McCarthy and his “Conservative Movement” founding colleagues, to include Roy Cohn, down to DJT, as these tell the story of with Arthur Finkelstein applying all the techniques used in CIA coups, to US political campaigns on behalf of American Conservatives, the “Right," and later, to Israel's:  https://andrewtobias.com/how-arthur-finklestein-ruined-the-world/; https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/08/jacob-weisbergs-classic-new-republic-profile-of-trump-adviser-roger-stone.html; 

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgrassegger/george-soros-conspiracy-finkelstein-birnbaum-orban-netanyahu

That Soros merits a lot criticism for his own election interference operations around the world only show how successful the “Right” was, in that success breeds replication. The New Right, like Vance, Trump, DeSantis, Thiel, have provided a real-time demonstration of how “Cognitive operations affect people’s perception of reality and decision-making, guiding groups of people and targeted audiences towards conditions desired by a geopolitical adversary.” Add “political adversary” to that for domestic campaigns, with not only the Republicans the masters of that now but so are the “right-wing Democrats” of the Scoop Jackson/Barry Goldwater ideological descendants. 

 

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Sen. JD Vance endorses the U.S. military’s going after drug cartels in Mexico

The Republican from Ohio said fentanyl’s increasing popularity and Mexico’s apparent inability to quash the illicit narcotics trade necessitates his proposal.

July 2, 2023, 7:00 AM CDT

American presidents should have the power to deploy the U.S. military to pursue drug cartels in Latin America, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, said on NBC News' "Meet the Press" in an interview that aired Sunday.

“I want to empower the president of the United States, whether that’s a Democrat or Republican, to use the power of the U.S. military to go after these drug cartels,” Vance told host Chuck Todd.

He said fentanyl's increasing popularity and the Mexican government's apparent inability to quash the illicit narcotics trade necessitate his proposal.

"We have to recognize the Mexican government is being, in a lot of ways, destabilized by the constant flow of fentanyl," Vance said. He said he has talked to Drug Enforcement Administration agents who think that with the amount drug cartels are bringing in, their revenue per year has gone up 14 times just in the last couple of years.

"That shows you what, I think, bad border policies can do," he added.

Fentanyl — particularly when it is illicitly manufactured — is responsible for most drug overdose deaths, killing about 150 people a day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Opioids are responsible for roughly 74% of all overdose deaths, and the number of overdoses increased by 31% in 2019 and 2020, the agency reported.

Calls to task the U.S. military with pursuing drug cartels in Latin America, particularly those in Mexico, gained steam after four Americans were kidnapped in northeastern Mexico this year, and other Republicans have since proposed a similar response to the drug crisis.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who is running for president, said Monday that he supported using “deadly force” against migrants suspected of smuggling drugs into the U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, also a Republican, has also said he would dispatch U.S. special forces against the cartels.

In March, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said on Fox News that it was time to “put Mexico on notice” and classify some Mexican drug cartels as “foreign terrorist groups.”

Democrats remain largely opposed to the proposal. In April, Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas told Axios he opposes military strikes in Mexico, calling the idea "unrealistic."

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador rebuked calls from some U.S. lawmakers advocating military action in Mexico this year, describing the proposals at the time as an assault on his nation's sovereignty.

“We are not going to permit any foreign government to intervene in our territory, much less that a government’s armed forces intervene,” he said at a news conference in March.

Todd also asked Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, in an interview whether a secure border with Mexico would be enough to keep out drugs. Brown said more was needed.

"We need a secure border," Brown said. "And we need Congress to actually work together on that, not just demagogue issue after issue. But even a secure border doesn’t keep this stuff out, nor will our sanctions mean none is produced. Again, it’s all the above. It’s treatment. It’s police work. It’s sanctions. It’s border protection. It’s all that."