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spikethedevil posted...

Because American intervention always ends well.

Historically its ended well plenty of times, its just the more recent examples in the Middle East that truly ended horribly for the local populace.

However if you dont think the US would actually attempt at leaving Mexico in a genuinely better state than it left the states it intervened in within the Middle East, youre being incredibly naive.

Think about it this way, the US has genuinely little stake in places like Libya or Iraq. You can show up, topple the Dictator and celebrate your victory while leaving the place in shambles because ultimately its not America that suffers because of it (other than losing a degree of international standing, however that doesnt really matter because Americas allies will always be a powerful force in the UN). Who suffers? The locals, and then the refugee crisis eventually bleeds into Europe and Asia, but it doesnt really affect America much.

On the other hand, if Mexico falls into an open state of war between cartels and the government, its America that gets effected directly due to the economic impact itll have on North America as a whole, as well as the inevitable refugee crisis America will face (that will dwarf the current issues we have at the border today).

America will be forced to handle this more delicately than it has handled anything in the last half century because the US will be directly impacted, unlike how America treated the Middle East.

I firmly believe if this turns into full scale war, you wont be seeing America the World Police intervention, it would likely be a full UN sanctioned coalition that gets involved.

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