I thought about it and I don't want to deal with a pregnant woman while dealing with that selection school

Is smart

it's bad enough i have to force her to live with me through it

for like 7-8 months

dude i had some scares when I was a wee private

with the rando thots or hookers or w/e

when I was a pfc

nuttin in anything that moved

thank god morning after pills exist is all I can say

jesus i turn around and thats the notification i get lmao

I think I can offer some solutions

First off we have to completely repeal NAFTA and figure out comprehensive solutions to stabilize central and south America

Second, we have to reestablish a manufacturing and production economy to offset the workforce/job availability issue

Well that will involve direct American military intervention and while I PERSONALLY am ok with going down there

the public isn't

Look at the school of the americas

and expand the scope of that program

thousandfold

and you have the only possible way to make that work

Repealing NAFTA is a good start and renegotiating trade to stabilize their economic situation, and legalizing drugs to destroy the cartels. It isn't a perfect solution, but it's better than pointless American military intervention

No lol that won't do much other than slow down the cartels for a long time

You need that combined with a hardline military boots on the ground push

not just how we currently do it with advising

but as a straight up psuedo-occupation as we did in Germany/Japan/Korea

Well, if it's all legal, then they have no reason to cause so much violence. It forces them to put down their AKs and step off the streets and pick up ink pens and step into a boardroom

Now I can only really speak from MY experience "advising" in the Mexican Drug War

but American soldiers in Juarez did work

in calming the violence there

The big reason that you can't really have local governments handle this situation specifically is that it's easy for corruption and moles to take root

That's true

the reason that we were so effective in our raids was because the cartel had zero way to infiltrate American intelligence networks there

That is also true

meanwhile anything that was based on Federales intelligence was almost always botched

Makes sense

Beyond that, we have one thing going for us; the rise of paganism in America

man tbh I think more people just don't really care either way about religion

it think it's that rather than very strong opinions

I think it's interesting to consider the example of something like Ramadi or Sadr City, Iraq in around 2009-2010

After American pacification efforts sort of took a hardline effort there those cities were unironically safer than American cities

like safer than Baltimore/Detroit

It went from being the worst place of the war in 2006-2007 to some of the safest places in the entire middle east