War #3 Threatened by Trump

The Trump administration has begun detailed planning for a new mission to send U.S. troops and intelligence officers into Mexico to target drug cartels, according to two U.S. officials and two former senior U.S. officials familiar with the effort.

The early stages of training for the potential mission, which would include ground operations inside Mexico, has already begun, the two current U.S. officials said. But a deployment to Mexico is not imminent, the two U.S. officials and one of the former U.S. officials said. Discussions about the scope of the mission are ongoing, and a final decision has not been made, the two current U.S. officials said.

The "no moar foreign wars" guy sure seems to be hot on invading every country that he sees on Fox News.

The United States is going to end up with no friends south of the Rio Grande, other than those that we have bought, like Argentina. Latin American countries are going to look for a counterweight and the most likely choice is China, which is going to be increasingly interested in overseas basing rights.

People in other countries have a better sense of history; they haven't forgotten when American Latin Policy was "send the Marines" to every country that the United Fruit Co. was beefing with. This threat to send in the military is going to ring a lot of chimes.

The Trump Administration is disintegrating American power and influence around the world. We will be cleaning this up for a lifetime, if even that quickly.