Let’s pretend you’re El Jefe, La Jefa, Queen Bee, the Big Swinging Dick/Tits, the HNIC (if you’re allowed to be)…

The Big Cheese…

Let’s pretend you are

P O T U S

… and you are tasked with fixing the Mexican / American border. There’s an opportunity to do so but it’s guaranteed to cost American lives while battling the cartels that control Mexico…

Do you seize the opportunity?

And what do you request in return?

The Problem at Hand

Before we DEEP DIVE into the mind of the Commander-In-Chief, let’s discuss the problem in Mexico and what’s coming through the United States' southern border.

From Google’s new overlord, AI:

RIP Mayor Alejandro Arcos

With a newly elected Mayor’s beheading, a horrific public statement display in October, it’s the scariest way for Mexico to stake its claim as a full-blown Narco state, run by the muscle of the cartels.

We can only imagine what the 90+ percent, of innocent Mexican citizens, just trying to live their lives, who have no involvement in cartel-life, but are still scared to walk through their neighborhood or maybe worse, support the wrong cause.

Full Story via The Guardian:

Mexico’s new government has been shaken by the murder of a city mayor who was attacked and beheaded days after taking office. Alejandro Arcos Catalán was sworn in as the mayor of Chilpancingo, the capital of the southern state of Guerrero, on 30 September, a day before Mexico’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, took power herself. On Monday, less than a week into her presidency, Sheinbaum confirmed reports that the 43-year-old city leader had been slain the previous day, telling reporters: “All the necessary investigations are taking place.”

Photographs of Arcos Catalán’s bloodied head, exhibited on the roof of a white vehicle while his body lay slumped inside, spread on social media – a terrible reminder of the violence that Mexico’s organised crime conflict has inflicted on the Latin American country.

The mayor’s murder came after two close allies were shot dead in the early days of his short-lived administration. A secretary, Francisco Tapia, was gunned down on 3 October, while Ulises Hernández Martínez, a former special forces police commander who was tipped to become Arcos Catalán’s security chief, was riddled with bullets on the eve of the mayor’s inauguration.

Shocked citizens shared footage of an interview with the mayor before his death in which he said he wished to be remembered as a champion of peace and happiness. “I’ve lived here all my life … and it’s here that I want to die – but I want to die fighting for my city,” Arcos Catalán said.

The murder sparked anger and disgust, with Alejandro Moreno, the president of Arcos Catalán’s party, the Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI), denouncing what he called a grotesque “act of terror”.

Ricardo Anaya, an opposition senator, lamented the “spine-chilling” security situation in Mexico, where more than 450,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderón launched his doomed “war” against the drug cartels in 2006.

“The fact that they have decapitated the mayor of such an important city should make us shudder. It is utterly unacceptable and we need to do something to ensure it stops happening,” Anaya told reporters, calling for an immediate change in tack in security policy.

But Sheinbaum has promised to continue the so-called “hugs, not bullets” security policy of her predecessor and mentor, the 70-year-old nationalist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, during her six-year term.

“We will not return to Calderón’s reckless war on the narcos that did our country so much harm. It remains our conviction that security and peace are the fruits of justice,” she told thousands of supporters who packed Mexico City’s Zócalo Square for her historic inauguration last Tuesday.

Although López Obrador claimed to have achieved a modest reduction in Mexico’s murder rate in the later stages of his presidency, there is consensus among security analysts that his attempts to “pacify” the country failed. Last year Mexico suffered more than 30,000 murders. According to the Instituto Igarapé thinktank, Mexico was home to 11 of the world’s 50 most murderous cities in 2023, compared with three in 2015. Chilpancingo was one of them.

Rich, Heavily Armed, and in Control: Mexico’s Fully Operational Cartels

It’s been reported that Mexican drug cartels wholesale earnings from illicit drug sales range from $13.6 to $49.4 billion annually. B I L L I O N S with a B .

That’s according to CRS Report for Congress, CNN, and BBC News. It was well known, but to spell it out, they are operating without fear of the Mexican government.

According to Wikipedia and the Washington Post :

The U.S. Congress passed legislation in late June 2008 to provide Mexico with US$1.6 billion for the Mérida Initiative as well as technical advice to strengthen the national justice systems. By the end of President Felipe Calderón's administration ( December 1, 2006 – November 30, 2012 ), the official death toll of the Mexican drug war was at least 60,000. Estimates set the death toll above 120,000 killed by 2013, not including 27,000 missing. Since taking office in 2018, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared that the war was over. His comment was criticized, as the homicide rate remains high.

These cartels are profiting from drug trafficking and the United States is their favorite broker. Or better put, favorite doper. It’s our demand that is surely fueling the supply increase of fentanyl and heroin at an alarming rate. Ripping through the Mexican border, its roaring through the country and camping in every major city, the nucleus of which you can find right here in Kensington.The opioid epidemic in America has done irreparable damage to the foundation of the country — families from New York to California have felt the effect while the cartel business diversifies. It sounds like an easy joke but they’ve taken hold of the tortilla industry.

TORTILLAS CANNOT BE CORRUPTED.

According to Republican Homeland Security Commission:

The Southwest border is wide open. The evidence is clear: more than 5.5 million encounters; more than 1.5 million known gotaways since FY21; nearly 380,000 encounters of unaccompanied minors; and a record number of fentanyl poisonings in the United States, largely driven by drugs flooding across the Southwest border. 

So What are we to do about All of this chaos??

There’s one thing that’s already come to the mind of our newly elected President, amongst many other American Senators.

War with the cartels.

The entire process is painful to ponder. Whatever you decide as Commander-In-Chief, blood will be spilled, lives will be lost, drugs will continue to be trafficked, and there will be wins and losses that you’re accountable for.

“Operation WHITE Christmas”

The mission:

• Send in U.S. intelligence, special forces, and military forces to combat the Mexican cartels and clean up the border.

• Do so in exchange for a heavier reliance on U.S. exports of green energy and oil in Mexico.

IS THIS HOW THE POLITICAL GAME IS PLAYED?

I wonder.

It’s a nauseating thought to ponder when you consider what’s at stake.

For two specific groups especially:

1. The Americans who will have to put their lives on the line when they cross the Southern border and confront the cartels. Yes, cartelS, plural, organized gangs of illegal militia and military-level forces who play by their own rules and have made the country their own playground.

2. The innocent Mexicans who have no involvement in the cartel-life warfare, as well as the Mexicans who rely on the green energy business for their livelihood.

Clean Christmas: Red for the Blood + Green for the Energy (Christmas & Mexican colors), White for the Drugs (appearance of cocaine & fentanyl + metaphor for clean + snowy, environmental acknowledgment… )

This operation looks like the good guy version of the Invasion of Iraq to me.

For starters, the (clean) energy source is being exported INTO the country, rather than exporting oil OUT of a country on false premise. This will also benefit the Mexican people by cutting down on smog, improving air quality, and creating jobs; improving the quality of life in every which way.

/ Energy First /

Eradicating the cartels is probably impossible at this point, or at the very least will take years and years. They have an outward and obvious public control over the country and have instilled fear in both the people and the government. That kind of thing doesn’t just go away in a year or two. Escobar’s reign began in the 80s and the different cartels have traded the top spot ever since.

All that being said, energy is the least complicated part of this equation, so let’s tackle that first.

According to the International Trade Administration (ITA), Mexico’s green energy industry has tremendous potential:

Mexico has enormous potential to develop renewable energy projects. The country has high solar radiation, wind capacity, and geothermal sources. In addition, with the right technologies and expertise, the country could increase energy storage and green hydrogen projects. Harnessing this potential could help to diversify the energy supply, lower the cost of electricity, and support companies that have strict sustainability objectives and are committed to lower their carbon footprint. Despite changes in policy and delays in permits, the U.S. Commercial Service Mexico has seen increasing participation from both Mexican companies seeking U.S. renewable energy technologies and U.S. firms travelling to Mexico for trade shows and events with the interest of expanding operations in the country.

via ITA

The U.S. is already a major player in Mexico’s energy imports, both renewable and otherwise, so progressing that aspect of OCC would be relatively easy.

The people most negatively affected by this effort would be the Mexicans working for themselves in the green energy industry.

My armchair expert mind — which wields the same level of ethos as a double bacon cheeseburger — drifts to an energy exchange between the U.S. government takes over the Mexican green energy corporations, while the former owners receive fair compensation and retain a stake in the business. On one hand this is a total totalitarian approach that shits on capitalism and fairness. On the other, I bet some of the workers rejoice. If they get U.S. Federal Government benefits, they might be all about it. If the owners are compensated fairly and we operate out of those local systems instead of just forcing Mexico to import EVERYTHING.

Implementing green energy procedures in Mexico could mean subsidies for residential solar power upgrades, large-scale mandates for new buildings, especially those larger than houses, federal property, and more. Convention centers, stadiums, theaters, and so on…

We need something SIGNIFICANT in return for the risk our men and women are taking.

For the BILLIONS we’ve already spent on aid to the Mexican government to stave the cartels off.

Surely we’d be quite happy with a clean border and a democratic southern border country. The peace of the Mexican people. That’s all worth it.

But a return on investment would make a SUCCESSFUL sacrifice even more economically viable and worthwhile.

Again… it’s a cold, harsh thought… but it’s certainly a Presidential one. And as you can see below the projection for renewable energy is expected to grow exponentially in the next 30 years, so expanding that trend with buyers would only make it a more enticing scenario for the U.S.

Taking Over Mexican Green Energy

We all know the United States has its dirty red white and blue hands in just about everything, so it’s no surprise that Mexican energy is already within its grasp, as you can see in the graph below.

Prior to 2020, the energy exchange was heavily leaning in the United States favor but in recent years, things have begun to swing back in Mexico’s favor.

With 24% of Mexico’s green energy usage being renewables (according to IEA), that’s an incredible asset to take on for a country that’s what, 13 trillion in debt?

So how would this work? How would Mexican green energy companies turn the keys over to the U.S. government?

I’m not going to pretend like I know the answer to this, but my assumption would be some sort of favorable payout and profit share while keeping the workers on board. It’s not like we’re going to bring Americans down to work there for a higher cost. Initially, it might be at a loss, but soon after it’ll be for-profit with complete control over the market.

If it meant eradicating cartels from the Mexican border, I bet the Mexican people would go for it.

But again, that’s the armchair expert opinion of a cheeseburger.

Taking on the

Mexican Cartels

I’ll level with you, reader who’s navigated the charts and opinionated paragraphs of a mad man….

I’ve got no idea here.

I mean, how could I???

I could do a ton of research — which you’ll see below for your own reference — and formulate a strong, strategical opinion, but I don’t think I even deserve to do that. I’ve never served, nor have I been following U.S. Mexican foreign policy for the last 20 years, so if I were President I would leave that to the Joint Chief of Staff Military Officer, the highest-ranking U.S. military official.

Tell em — get back to me, the muthafuckin POTUS, with a full report on the situation, we’ll weigh the pros and cons and then we’ll make a decision.

Wikipedia — Mexican Drug War

United States Congress public text from Homeland Security on “Taking Down The Mexican Cartels” from 2014

“The War on Cartels” via Georgetown University

Reconsidering US Special Forces Deployment Against Mexican Cartels via Cato Institute

The Risky Rhetoric of the U.S. War on Mexican Cartels via Crisis Group

The America First Approach to Defeat the Cartels via America First Policy

Cutting cartel recruitment could be the only way to reduce Mexico’s violence via Science.org

Facing Mexico’s Drug Cartels via Aspen Institute (video)

But since this article would be incomplete without some sort of strategic opinion, here’s what I’d do:

Side with one of the cartels. Fund them, befriend them, and help them take out the other cartels. As soon as they’ve taken over complete control of the drug trade, take them down with the fullest extent of our military capabilities.

Boom roasted.