Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sense who wrote (186471)	4/16/2022 7:23:16 PM
From: carranza2	6 Recommendations Recommended By alanrs Alias Shrugged fred woodall maceng2 Maurice Winn and 1 more member Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 217675

If NATO members are attacked, which is in the realm of abject speculation (and very unlikely, considering the military difficulties Putin has had in Ukraine), we should abide by our treaty obligations. Ukraine is not a NATO member. Given its local dispute with Russia, which does not involve any strategic US interest, it would be insane to treat it as a full-fledged ally. I fully understand the attraction that intervening has to some. Who wouldn’t want to deliver a black eye to Putin? He’s horrible. You want a better reason to intervene in some other place? Why not Mexico? The drug cartels are poisoning our population, creating bleeding wounds that kill and cost us. And they’ve been at it for decades. The Russians are not guilty of anything like that. The cartels are literally at our border. The Russians are not. War crimes? I’ll believe it when the media BS is toned down and there is a modicum of objectivity on the issue. Until then, I’m agnostic. But even if the Russians are indeed committing war crimes, they pale in comparison to what the cartels routinely do. Beheadings by the dozens, face-ripping while the victim is alive, assasinations of public officials every day of the week, attacks on civilians, children, etc. They are savages. Very rich savages. Where is the outrage? Silent, laying down with hypocrisy. Where’s the media’s clamor for intervention? Crickets. We could wipe out the cartels in a week, if the political will existed. And this is an issue that directly affects us, unlike Ukraine which lies at the back of beyond. Putin is Pollyanna compared to El Mencho and Chapo. You see the difference? I do, but it is inconsequential. The difference is it will be argued that the cartels are not state actors, not a sovereign using its monopoly on violence. But the argument is wrong. The money involved has melded the cartels and thoroughly corrupt government institutions into a single entity. The fight against them made by the Mexican government is for show, there’s too much money on the line for everyone concerned to effectively do what needs to be done. We have every right to intervene in Mexico to fight the cartels, who are directly harming us on our borders. Ukraine? Not so much.