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And thousands more will die due to the fully predictable and justified retaliation that follows. This doesn't meaningfully weaken the cartels, but forces them to respond in order to not compromise future safety. Prioritizing showy executions over actual progress, words that should describe the cartels, not the government.
I don’t see how it would be justified. Do you think the cartels are in the right here?
And thousands more will die due to the fully predictable and justified retaliation that follows. This doesn't meaningfully weaken the cartels, but forces them to respond in order to not compromise future safety. Prioritizing showy executions over actual progress, words that should describe the cartels, not the government.
> justified retaliation I don’t see how it would be justified. Do you think the cartels are in the right here?
It is basically whack-a-mole killing or imprisoning cartel heads - there will be splinter factions and you will just get three just as nasty ones in it's place.
And thousands more will die due to the fully predictable and justified retaliation that follows. This doesn't meaningfully weaken the cartels, but forces them to respond in order to not compromise future safety. Prioritizing showy executions over actual progress, words that should describe the cartels, not the government.
> justified retaliation I don’t see how it would be justified. Do you think the cartels are in the right here?
Of course not, none of the sides are at all in the right here. But from the cartels perspective, they're almost certainly in the right.
Drug cartels are entirely the result of poor policies, and the blame for all the harms caused by them rests primarily on the shoulders of those perpetuating those policies. Surely the politicians that vote for laws that directly enable drug cartels to exist in the first place must be worse than the leaders of any individual drug cartel?
Any kind of serious analysis of who's more right would end up being a work at the scale of Rising Up and Rising Down, that's probably best avoided.
If we oversimplify cartels into innocent businessmen just looking to sell drugs, with governments being the ones that introduced violence into the equation in their effort to stop them? Surely it must be the cartels
If we oversimplify cartels into evil criminals just looking to wield power over other human beings, with governments just trying to liberate people from cartel tyranny? Surely it must be the governments
Puerto Vallarta is on fire - seeing tons of videos on my timeline.
As long as Mexico shares a border with the US the biggest consumer of such recreational drugs and poverty in Mexico there will always be drug cartels. It is basically whack-a-mole killing or imprisoning cartel heads - there will be splinter factions and you will just get three just as nasty ones in it's place.