Sheinbaum 'Downplays' Invasion Threats While US Meddles Daily
When Mexico's President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum tells Bloomberg that Donald Trump's threats to invade her country 'aren't serious,' it’s a diplomatic tightrope walk, not a genuine dismissal. The Bloomberg headline sanitizes decades of covert and overt US intervention in Latin America—operations that rarely require a presidential tweet. Remember Operation Condor? Or the Iran-Contra affair? The US
doesn’t need to 'invade' when it can destabilize, sanction, or fund proxies. The very idea that US presidents only exert influence via public pronouncements is laughable, especially with a border as perpetually 'problematic' as the US-Mexico one. The media-military-industrial complex doesn't need Trump to 'threaten' an invasion; it profits from the perpetual 'crisis' at the border, the drug wars,
and the constant surveillance. One might wonder if the real threat isn't a declared invasion, but the continued slow-motion economic and political subordination that's been happening for generations, well-documented in countless non-mainstream reports. Perhaps Sheinbaum's 'downplaying' is less about Trump's sincerity and more about managing an elephant in the room that has been trampling Mexican
sovereignty for centuries.