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Honestly, that’s not a bad deal. The US gets fentanyl enforcement. Mexico gets the flow of guns slowed, which weakens the cartels.
The tariff thing was a silly dance to get there, though. Makes me wonder if that wasn’t market manipulation. Knowing the tariffs would hit in the morning, then get lifted before enforcement would have made it very easy to play the market for a ton of money.
but... the Mexican government already had the troops on the border. Biden did that in 2021.. so nothing new there. Most Fentanyl is smuggled in my US citizens as they are not scrutinized as much as a Mexican citizen coming in legally or illegally. So again not much of a win.. seems like a tantrum that is planned to set him and his wealthy friends to swoop in
So optimistically assuming that Trump will follow through.
Regarding fentanyl, trump did everything except actually address it. Why not impose sanctions on Chinese pharmaceutical companies? Improve regulations to allow tracking of fentanyl ingredients (which are legal), create a task force that would trace suppliers and help impose more sanctions.
As is tradition, your mistake is in assuming he actually wants to help anyone
Or they could have addressed both fentanyl in the US and the cartels in Mexico by just agreeing to end the war on drugs...
Except the US would giving up the current source of slave labor by stopping the war on drugs.
Almost nothing of the US fentanyl gets in through Mexico...
Where do you get yours from.
How do you figure? From my understanding China and other places make precursor ingredients which are then manufactured in the field in Latin America. Are you saying the vast majority is fentanyl manufactured in China and shipped directly to the US?
There has been lots of well published studies in the US last year. Well published enough to catch on the international press.
Most of their fentanyl seems to be smuggled out of their chemical and drug industries.
Nothing was stopping the US from producing fentanyl.