The tiff w/Mexico.
The tariffs, trade war, rape gangs, cartels, illegal immigrants.
That's the dressing, but not the play.
The play is, the United States will more-directly enslave Mexico. For a long time, we wanted to enslave the whole world. We failed, it got too expensive, (Vietnam 1ra .q 1sra3l).
The back up slaves were always mexico+(south america). They're already largely bound, but very soon probably, US will play a much more direct role in their government.
The current government of Mexico IS the Cartel, these guys are inherently weak because they rule entirely through fear. It is a strong enough motivator for low level manual labor, but nothing outside of that. Any smart guy, has much better opportunities elsewhere, safer, away from the violence. And so the country will stagnate near indefinitely in that state, the ONLY thing they can produce efficiently is menial labor. They can't tech-up effectively (fast enough) running that system, and so their world standing, where Technology, is the currency, is locked.
The concept of potentially On-Shoring, the US more than anything else, needs this slave labor force, and so we've willingly kept the Cartels in charge. The same reason we sponsored Sadd4m Hussy, and Netn'yahoot.
The news cycle, is designed such that at a moment's notice, it gives us the political excuse to exact Direct Violence on the Cartel, which by design is the direct manipulation of Mexico. To which they have no defense, we sold them (under the table) all the weapons they currently have, and they have no viable navy to negotiate otherwise.
How difficult would it be to manipulate say, the Swiss government, they're high tech, banking haven, nuclear weapons, advanced products other countries depend upon. The US can't do **** to them. If we pressed, they'd nuke us.
Now, Mexico, different story. Fen7any1, Mangos, Avocados are nice, but it gets you very little bargaining power, no one is DEPENDENT on low lvl commodities.
Hang in there Mexico. Everything will probably get way worse.
