I guess it depends on their reaction to any perceived encroachments on their operations. From what I've seen they aren't afraid to get down, so I guess it really boils down to what our armed forces do on and around the border.
I've linked stuff from the Cato Institute a number of times about the fentanyl smuggling. Something over 85% of the people are American citizens using legal entry points. Almost all comes through legal entries in total because most of it comes in such small quantities ( 10 to 20 lbs on the average) that it's easy to conceal. There's nothing really happening at the border that greatly concerns the cartels. There's definitely nothing worth starting a shooting war.
What you've posted makes absolute sense. I was just thinking in terms of hypothecals in relation to the wild card nature of the Trump administration.
My assumption is the cartels probably view the facile military theater as a welcome distraction from POE.
If a cartel opens fire on a “run-of-the-mill” National Guard unit, it will soon meet Marines, Rangers, Airborne soldiers, SEALS, Delta, fixed-wing aviators from the Navy, Marines, Air Force, and helicopter units from diverse American military branches.
And I assumme if such a spectacle occurred orangeturds popularity would soar
I don’t know about this objectively, but certainly anecdotally. My very banal, rhetorically inoffensive, deeply catholic, maga “in-laws” have a 100% rate of siding with maga over the pope. They hand waved don1.0 brown kid kidnappings, and recently were shocked to learn anyone could’ve thought Musk was doing a seig hiel … “oh, honey, he’s just an awkward man.” Everything between brown kid kidnappings and seig hiels were treated with similar polite deflection. They’re absolutely Good Germans, to the T.
I understand how you feel. Sounds exactly like my family. At least you married into it. I was born into that awfulness. Shameful and depressing for me.
