The Trump administration’s latest escalatory threat comes just days after Rolling Stone reported on a secret drug trafficking cartel operating out of Fort Bragg. 

Picture this scenario: Mexico’s government is grappling with an institutional crisis. Lawlessness is on the rise as Mexican drug cartels take their fight with US authorities to the streets of Houston and San Diego. One of the cartels launches a terrorist attack on the US embassy in Mexico City. These events spark a migration crisis as millions of Mexicans flood toward the US border, threatening the national security of the United States.

In response, the US military unleashes a three-pronged infantry attack against Mexico, one heading eastward through Brownsville towards Tampico, another from Fort Hood toward Monterrey and onto Guadalajara, and the third starting from Arizona and passing through Sonora. The land offensive is accompanied by a maritime attack on the port of Tampico and a