The Trump administration is expected to invoke a sweeping wartime authority to speed up the president’s mass deportation pledge in the coming days, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.
You think the insurgency in a country that includes the Darien Gap is going to be easy mode?
Regardless, none of this is based of likelihood of good outcomes. That’s not how Trump works. He wants to be seen as the President who is doing something. As long as Panama gracefully accepts that they’re our ally while Trump is in office he’ll leave them alone. Mexico is far more likely because there’s no short term resolution to Cartels and immigration. As opposed to the other options he likely has conservative politicians pressuring him to invade Mexico right now.
You think the insurgency in a country that includes the Darien Gap is going to be easy mode?
Regardless, none of this is based of likelihood of good outcomes. That’s not how Trump works. He wants to be seen as the President who is doing something. As long as Panama gracefully accepts that they’re our ally while Trump is in office he’ll leave them alone. Mexico is far more likely because there’s no short term resolution to Cartels and immigration. As opposed to the other options he likely has conservative politicians pressuring him to invade Mexico right now.