Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has announced his intention to take aggressive action against Mexican drug cartels, should Mexico’s government fail to address the issue themselves. Ramaswamy made this statement during an interview with Fox News’ Larry Kudlow, drawing a comparison between the cartels and a troublesome neighbor’s dog.
Ramaswamy emphasized his plan to “reset” the relationship with Mexico and offered US assistance to help Mexico regain sovereignty from the drug cartels. He noted that this support would be a small fraction of what the U.S. has spent in Ukraine.
He cautioned that if Mexico does not take action, the US would intervene to protect its own interests.
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“It’s like if you have a neighbor who has a dog that comes over to your yard and keeps biting your family members repeatedly…at some point, you can take a shotgun and shoot that dog — that’s legitimate, legal, morally and ethically justified,” he compared, adding “the same thing applies to a country to our south that has lost its sovereignty to the Mexican drug cartels and we’re going to have to defend ourselves, if necessary.”
Larry Kudlow chimed in, likening this potential intervention to “hot pursuit” in military terms, signaling the pursuit of criminal actors across borders.
Much like former President Donald Trump’s border wall, Ramaswamy had been mulling this thought over for a while, previously posting about it on the platform formerly known as Twitter, where he advocated for the use of the military to eliminate Mexican drug cartels and combat the supply-driven fentanyl crisis.
Ramaswamy’s posturing is translating into numbers, he’s just six percentage points away from taking over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (15%) as distant number two to former President Donald Trump (58%) in the Republican primary race.
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