Foreign policy experts warn that the calls may jeopardise Washington’s relationship with Mexico City.
A surge in fentanyl flowing across the US-Mexico border over the last few years has fed an epidemic of American drug overdose deaths.
Shortly after the debate, DeSantis doubled down: “When I talk about using the military to take on the drug cartels, because they’re killing tens of thousands of our citizens, we have every right to do it.”Rolling Stone reported recently that he asked advisors for military “battle plans” to unleash against Mexico if he is re-elected next year.
“It’s sheer lunacy,” former Mexican ambassador to the US Arturo Sarukhan, now at the Brookings think tank in Washington, told AFP. As a result, Republicans are calling for the kind of surgical drone strikes and nighttime raids that US forces have undertaken against Islamic jihadist groups in countries such as Iraq, Syria, and Somalia, with few diplomatic consequences.
Brian Finucane, of the International Crisis Group, said the talk should not be dismissed as election bluster. When talk of military action surged among Republicans earlier this year, Lopez Obrador called it “irresponsible” and “a lack of respect for our independence and sovereignty.”
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