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[-] Jomega@lemmy.world 97 points 4 months ago

What the fuck did Mexico do?

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 4 months ago

They give us workers and refugees! We should bomb the shit out of them and then they'll checks notes send us... workers and refugees?

[-] entropicdrift 25 points 4 months ago

The right has been scapegoating Mexico over the ongoing opiod crisis and Fentanyl specifically

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

Doesn't all this fentanyl come from China who is famously allied with Republican's favorite leader, Putin?

[-] entropicdrift 1 points 4 months ago

It doesn't "all" come from any one country, but China produces the most, yes.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

Didn't pay for the wall

[-] Droechai@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

Remember the Alamo!

[-] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I think it is a ploy by Russia and China to get the US to hurt itself.

Mexico is key to our economic future. The manufacturing which the US is trying to onshore needs many different inputs some from lower cost labor sources. Mexico provides some of the middleish parts of the process (yes Mexican labor is more skilled than other inputs from South Asia). While the US labor pool provides the upper end. Cars, appliances, low end electronics etc. are where Mexico comes in. The US just doesn’t have the labor pool to do all of this at a decent price point.

While central and southern Mexico may not be big fans of the US. People in the North are fairly pro USA as they see a lot of economic integration. Dropping bombs on them even when we are going after the cartels is not going to keep them on our side and we will see the anti US sentiment take over the country.

It’s basically one of the few extremely dumb things we could do to royally fuck up our economy.

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

'member those scary caravans?!?

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