Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently took on one of the most serious issues facing the United States.
Hegseth had a clear message from President Trump to give to the foreign adversary.
And Pete Hegseth just made one bold threat against this foreign country that made it clear that the U.S. has had enough.
Donald Trump campaigned on taking aggressive action to try and end the opioid epidemic that has devastated the country.
Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from overdoses on the lethal fentanyl that Mexican drug cartels smuggle into the United States.
President Trump wants to deal with the deadly problem at its source.
And that meant taking on the Mexican drug cartels.
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President Trump recently signed an executive order designating eight Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
Border Czar Tom Homan said that will allow the administration to target cartel funds and go after their bank accounts in foreign countries.
Without money, the cartels can’t bribe the politicians, judges, and police officers who allow these merchants of death to freely operate in Mexico.
But taking on terrorists involves more than just shutting down their bank accounts.
In his first term in the White House, President Trump destroyed the ISIS Caliphate.
Trump is now threatening the Mexican drug cartels with the same treatment.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Secretary of Defense Hegseth called Mexican military officials with a demand that sent chills down their spines.
Hegseth holds first call with Mexican generals
“It was the first call U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held with Mexico’s top military officials, and it wasn’t going well,” the Journal reported.
The notoriously corrupt Mexican government has far too often been a willing partner in cartel business.
Hegseth warned his Mexican counterparts that unless the collusion stopped, President Trump was prepared to launch military strikes against the cartels.
“Hegseth told the officials that if Mexico didn’t deal with the collusion between the country’s government and drug cartels, the U.S. military was prepared to take unilateral action, according to people briefed on the Jan. 31 call. Mexico’s top brass who were on that call were shocked and angered, feeling he was suggesting U.S. military action inside Mexico, these people said. The Defense Department declined to comment,” the Journal report went on to say.
That got the Mexican government’s attention, and President Claudia Sheinbaum sprang into action.
“Senior Mexican officials are focusing on delivering tangible results on the border and drugs that Trump can see as signs of progress, but there are worries that it won’t be easy to avoid tariffs as it was on Feb. 3, when Sheinbaum got a monthlong reprieve by sending 10,000 National Guard troops to the border,” the Journal report continued.
Shortly after the call, Mexican authorities arrested 29 of the most notorious cartel members and turned them over to the United States for prosecution.
“More than two dozen drug cartel suspects from Mexico — including the man charged in the 1985 slaying of a U.S. drug agent — are in U.S. custody after Mexican officials agreed to send them to the United States,” NBC News reported.
And that is how it’s done.
