The United States is militarily capable of eliminating cartel leadership in Mexico without needing to bomb the entire country.

“We don't have to drop a ton of bombs. We can literally send hellfires with swords on them and take out individuals without blowing up everything. Like the United States as a military entity is beyond what anything the cartels are prepared to handle.”

The United States military should conduct a campaign to dismantle and destroy Mexican cartels to protect American lives.

“And rather than another war in the Middle East, a military campaign to dismantle and destroy these cartels would easily be a defining legacy of the second Trump administration. It would save American lives, which is the whole reason we have a military.”

Classifying cartels as terrorist organizations allows for necessary military intervention rather than relying solely on arrest and prosecution.

“Now, by making interrorist organizations, the military is involved and the military is not there to arrest anybody. They're there to take him out.”

Targeted killings of cartel leaders often trigger internal power struggles that splinter organizations and cause violence to spread to new areas.

“Whenever you take out a couple, what you do is you create a turf war that tends to splinter these organizations and make them even more difficult, right, to to deal with.”

The war on drugs is ineffective because killing or capturing cartel members merely leads to them being replaced by even more ruthless individuals.

“nothing wrong listen stop the [ __ ] you're never gonna eliminate the cartels trust me you kill one there's ten worst ones ahem in line is not going to as long as America consumed 85% of the narcotics in the world someone's gonna supply it right supplying the man”

Taking out cartel leaders is often ineffective because it triggers retaliatory violence and does not address the underlying demand for drugs.

“the cartels are out of control. You got to do something about it. But the minute you start to do something about it, you get even more violence.”