The cartels are already entrenched. Organized drug gangs already dominate over a quarter of the south american continent. People openly speculate about how they control judges and politicians, and I don't doubt it for a second.
If the US manages to deal a crippling blow to these drug gangs, he will have done south america a huge favor and I will be forever indebted to him.
I understand that Trump's war on drugs is probably just a pretext to increase their dominion over south america. They probably want Venezuela's oil too.
None of that matters as far as I'm concerned. Here in south america things are way too fucked up to care about that stuff. South america has plenty of violent narcostates headed by literal communist dictators. Venezuela is just one of them, and my own country is rapidly following in its footsteps.
It's gotten to the point the USA nuking them all into submission would be a huge improvement to the status quo. Being a US vassal state is preferable to living under a barbarous narcostate shithole. The reasons they use to rationalize the attack are irrelevant to me. I'll be happy so long as they get rid of all these narcocommunists.
If the US manages to deal a crippling blow to these drug gangs, he will have done south america a huge favor and I will be forever indebted to him.