Mark Meckler is the president of the Convention of States Foundation and a leading proponent of the right-wing movement to get state legislatures to call for a dangerous Article V convention that will consider constitutional amendments to radically alter American government and society by making much of what the federal government now does unconstitutional.
“I don’t think there’s any way to solve this permanently without military action,” Meckler declared. “[We need a buffer zone] like the DMZ between the Koreas. It needs to be a kilometer of cleared territory that is a no man zone; you come in here and we believe you have hostile intent, we’re going to clear you out.”
“We need to exterminate the cartels and that means going into Mexico,” Meckler asserted. “Now people would say, ‘You’re violating a sovereign country’s territory.’ Well, Mexico is not a sovereign country any longer. Mexico is a failed narco state. The federal government is not in control of their military. The federal government is not in control of their police Their state governments are not, their local governments are not in control of their police forces. That is a failed narco-terrorist state and so we have to treat it as such.”
“To me, this is like Gaza. They’re invading our country. They’re invading our country every day. They’re killing our people, and we have to go in and use maximum force to oust them and create a buffer zone along the border. If we do that, we’ll have border security. It’s that simple.”
Hey look! More mirroring of Nazi forces cling Germany! Fucking GOP
Did that mf say kilometer? He’s clearly a spy from another country.
The logic of this rhetoric is essentially the same as the logic of modern Russia- “we need a buffer zone”, and the target country “is not a country” and it’s not genocide or imperialism when we have a reason to do it but we don’t have a reason so we have to tell lies to convince our people that we do have one.
What a fucking idiotic war mongler. We should be strengthening our ties to Mexico not fucking starting a war.
We pretty much are anyways. Alot of US manufacturing is already transitioning over to Mexico. I thought they even recently overtook, or are close to overtaking, China as one of our top trade partners. I think at some point the migration issue may solve itself and people will complain about Mexico taking all our jerbs.
Strengthening ties to the Mexico government is pretty unpalatable given its failure to defeat cartels
Cartels the US directly funds thanks to our insane puritanical response to drugs.
Sooo once the invasion is complete and the new southern border is with Guatemala, they’re gonna want to invade them too because the migrants are coming from there? And go on and on to Hondura, Nicaragua, etc.
The best place to stop is Panama. Then you’d have a very small land border and can concentrate all of your army stacks in one province.
Source: played video games in the past
Sure! I’m a fan of the older Hearts of Iron games. They regularly go on sale on Steam. They run on potatoes and I think they’re a little easier to get into than Hearts of Iron 4.
Hearts of Iron 2 - My favorite, especially with the Armageddon and Doomsday alternate history time-frames.
Hearts of Iron 3 - Also a good one, but I didn’t have as many hours in it as 2.
I’m still waiting on some sort of current timeframe Grand Strategy game. There isn’t really one outside of mods.
I mean honestly it’s immigration with extra steps for us and fewer steps for the migrants. But who are we kidding? These people are looking at the lack of public outrage regarding Gaza and 2 years of war in Ukraine, and they’re thinking, “If no one cares about Russia or Israel, then it’s not like they’ll stop the US.”
