Mexico is screwed

[Catfish]

Since the main problem is the cartels and drugs, it would be better to concentrate on that.
Or, to rephrase:
From where do the drug cartels get the money for their 'infrastructure', and arms?
Where do they mostly sell their drugs?
Any chance to come to grips with drug consumption, or to handle that aspect?

How would those cartels fare if drugs were legalized, in the US? I mean it won't happen and i'm not a friend of such policies, just a what-if

[Skybird]

I recently read a bit about the city satate oif Singapore. Singapore has some of the most "draconic" laws in rule one could imagine. For exmaple, drug offences all too moften trigger the detah penalty. But it is a city that has no major drug problems, and is one of the safiest citie son the planet.


The firat amndinstrator of the city experienced the occupation of China by the Japanese. This man said that although people were poor, were suffering and had not much to own at all, they remained to be hoinest and stayed away from becoming criminal. That was becasue the Japanese punished even minor crimes and offences with very drastically. Dratsical punishment does work, he concluded, and form the views of Behaviorism and the research for it done in the 50s and 60s, I also would say that it is expected to work.


What this man also concluded was that the Western law philosphy of resocialising b efore punishment, and endless patience, and that if people are well situated and live in a socially stable environment they would not become criminal, does not work. And that is my reasoning, too: it works at least extremely badly.



Somebody has to go into Mexico, and enforce a draconic sanctioning of crime and malicious anarchy. Three eyes for one eye, six teeth for one teeth - this kind of law and order. Were you see corruption, kill the corrupted. Wipe the cirminals out, no matter whether small fishes or big bosses.


This is th eonly thing that will work. Nobody likes ot hear that, I do not olike to say it. But that is the only thing that could work. Mexico more and more becomes a growing wound inside thr two Americas, and like any bodily infection it will start to - and already does - spread.



Not just since reading about Singapore I think that the Western law system is very severly messed up with it resocialising prioprity. It just does not work. I also do not like it for always putting emphasis on the interests and outlook of the perpetrator, and minimises the attention and interest for tzhe victims.



A wall is only a temporary measure a slong as it is not as tight as the inner German deathzone was, or the NorthKorean-SouthKorean border is - including shoot-to-kill orders. Mexico must be pacified, and you cannot have that without a full military invasion, and a super-tough crackdown on corrupted elites and organised crime. The US has messed arpound for far less riobust interests in Irak, afghanistan, Soimalia, and elsewhere. But Mexico it leaves untouched although of all these possible and/or real scenarios Mexico is the clearest and biggest danger to the US?


Okay. Not my place, not my interest. Just saying. Just one thing is clear by now: Mexico by now is a 100% failed state. With all negative consequences that come from that and that radiate into the neighbouring states.

[Catfish]

^ All good and well in theory.

Of course an invasion and killing all of the bastards will work. We have seen this in Germany after WW2, when all the former elites were instantly re-installed, to get at least a bit of control over a wrecked country. 'De-Nazification', my donkey. This was the reason for the '68 student revolts, when the young found out about reality.
Singapore is a very bad example, Asians are way more easily brought under control by draconic measures, while Mexicans will more probably revolt. Of course "you" can shoot them all.

What you and a lot more seem to completely misunderstand is where the root of the problem is. Even shooting them all will not cure the problem, only the symptom – if at all.

The US agency DEA fights a decades long war against the drug cartels, against corrupt politicians and against the Mafia. And both are situated in.. the US.
Another problem is the CIA. When Reagan (ab)used the CIA to deal with drugs and finance some of his invasions, the DEA, while having a hard time doing so, exposed all of those lies and drug deals. This information was not directly suppressed, it was just that nobody wanted to hear about it.
The genereal philosophy is like "There is always going to be a drug trade and a drug cartel, it might as well be our drug cartel."

If you invade Mexico and "kill all", Columbia will gladly get into business. And then there is Afghanistan. And so on.
There is a heroine epidemic in the USA, but also in parts of Europe. As long as this persists, there is no easy final solution.

Some more info on one of the drug lords:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/don-wi...about-el-chapo

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by Catfish

If you invade Mexico and "kill all", Columbia will gladly get into business.

I think they learned their lesson already, besides they're going to be the leader in the legal mary jane business now. Oh, and they really hate when you spell the name wrong.

Medellin looks so inviting that I think I'm going to live there instead of Quenca. Girls, food, weather, mountains, paragliding, girls. Wohoo!

We'll have the troops to man the border as soon as they get back from the DMZ. Hopefully within the year, don't even need anything in return from Rocket Man, and I'd promise to never return no matter what!

[Skybird]

Yes Catfish, its all the US' fault. As usual.



I am very much aware of the CIA operation to finance the contras by findign them aways to sell drugs on the Us market, and all that. However, this is not the cause of the problem.



Already in 2006, I had written here in the forum, or linked to, a long essay on the then young Afghanistan war, 30 pages or so, title was "Trapped in the Afghan maze". And already in that I recommended a work by A.W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA complicity in the global drug trade. -LINK- My copy of that found a wet grave in the strong rain flooding we had some years ago, but that long I know already about what you point at. you must not tell me.



The problem is that even where you attacks on the US in parts may be correct or indicate a shared guilt for theirs indeed, you ruin it by claiming it is all only their exclusive guilt, and no other factors play in. Its always the US' guilt alone, and you imply by that if the US would fall back, then all would be good since then the source of evil in the world has vanished. Man, that is so typically German far left leaning. And it is a mutilated, simplified carricature of reality. And it simply is wrong. But you complained in the past when I call you out as a left? Stop bringing up the German left's claims and arguments, and I stop associating you with them. That simple it is.



The book by McCoy is very good, btw, if you are interested in that matter serioulsy. I just found it a bit difficult to read, and cannot even say why. I recall that it was very sober, maybe that was why I struggled with its English.



Mexico now is what it is. How it got there, can obviously argue dabiut, but it doe snot really matter. How to contain the plague from spreading - that is what its about now. And just appelaing to them and hoping that reason will prevail, will not do anythging, nor will any fincial transfers or open border policies.


If the US woulkd go into Mexico and then recruit all those corrupted policemen and officials and politicans, then I cannot help them. But my laughs will be on them. In Iraq, they fired all the RG officers and Baathist big names, different to wehat you just implied they would do in mexico. Again, in Iraq it worked terribly against them, and the country. You cannot compoare, obviously, the case of post-war Gewrmany, Iraq and Mexico. Its comparing apples, oranges and bananas.