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Munu

(104 posts)
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 11:54 AM Friday

Trump suggests U.S. military will hit cartels on 'land' in Mexico

Trump suggests U.S. military will hit cartels on ‘land’ in Mexico (CNBC)

President Donald Trump suggested in a new interview that the U.S. military could launch land strikes on drug cartels in Mexico.

“We’ve knocked out 97% of the drugs coming in by water. And we are going to start now hitting land, with regard to the cartels,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview aired Thursday night.

“The cartels are running Mexico, it’s very sad to watch and see what’s happened to that country,” Trump said.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment from CNBC on the president’s remarks.

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The sequel.

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Dave Bowman

(6,687 posts)
2. This total madness, I never thought that I would see something like this in my lifetime. 😕
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 11:59 AM
Friday

sop

(17,491 posts)
3. Then the Mexican military should bomb gun stores in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 12:00 PM
Friday

The flood of American guns and ammunition, smuggled across the border, supplied by U.S. gun vendors who knowingly sell to straw purchasers, is the source of cartel violence.

ManuelV

(7 posts)
4. Trump needs to curb the drug problem here not elsewhere
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 07:02 AM
12 hrs ago

President Sheinbaum pointed out that for-profit pharmaceutical companies worsened the drug crisis.
Opioids are clearly over-prescribed in the U.S.

Unilateral military action is a fast way for things to go very wrong.

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