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[#260] THE NEXT WAR: Trump, Mexican “Cartels”, & the Monroe Doctrine on Steroids [AUDIO]
Added 2025-08-25 23:09:04 +0000 UTCTo better understand Trump’s current military posturing towards Mexican drug “cartels”, Dimitri and Khalid look for clues in a 1998 book by Reagan Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and “Victory” author Peter Schweizer called “The Next War”: a fever-dream Tom Clancy technothriller describing five potential future US military conflicts with North Korea & China, Iran, Mexico, Russia, and Japan.
Topics include: how the Iran and Russia scenarios have partly come to fruition, Oswaldo Zavala’s “Drug Cartels Do Not Exist”, the ont-op of “Mexican Drug Cartels” in public discourse from academia to popular TV shows like “Narcos”, how The Next War’s sinister left-populist “President Ruiz” character foreshadows the smearing of Nicolas Maduro and Claudia Sheinbaum as “narcopoliticos”, the inseparability of the US deep state and drug trafficking networks, and more.
Comments
The biggest takeaway from DCDNE for me was the part where he pointed out turf wars are deliberately instigated and perpetuated in specific areas to depopulate the region and let land developers move in. It’s not that the violence & gangs aren’t real, it’s that the state herds it like diverting flood waters
Max Fennig
2025-08-27 20:52:49 +0000 UTCHad no idea Iran Contra Casper and Peter broken clock Schweitzer wrote a novel ... a novel (!) only six years after Weinberger's pardon.
Dark Alliance
2025-08-25 23:19:11 +0000 UTC
