Trump sends military after the cartels and it’s long overdue
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Mexico Rejects Trump's Reported Military Plan Against Drug Cartels
Above: Claudia Sheinbaum at Palacio Nacional in Mexico City on Aug. 7, 2025. Image copyright: Juan Abundis/ObturadorMX/Getty Images
The Spin
Pro-Trump narrative
Trump was elected because the nation wanted the U.S. to focus its efforts and resources on its own national security. Now, he is delivering as he sends a U.S. trillion-dollar army to the southern border — and likely beyond due to the weakness of other governments in the Western Hemisphere — to fight terrorist cartels who have flooded the U.S. with fentanyl in an act of war that has left dozens of thousands of Americans per year.
Anti-Trump narrative
Anyone could have seen this bad hawkish idea coming as soon as several gangs were designated as terrorist groups earlier this year, in a move that merged the war on drugs with the war on terror. Trump is pushing the country into the unknown as his administration uses terrorist lists as a pretext for interventions abroad without the need to provide enough information about its plans and to allow Congress and the people to deliberate on the war.