So, guess Mex caved on tariffs and talks? Sending 6000 troops!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-pledged-to-send-6000-troops/

Report says Mexico pledged to send 6,000 troops to southern border

[SunSeeker]

1. Mexico is desperate.

As the article you cite notes, the threat of tariff imposition has already taken a toll on stocks, oil, the peso and economic growth forecasts and ratings agency Fitch yesterday downgraded Mexico’s sovereign rating to one notch above junk status.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. So maybe tariffs already baked into the #s?

[SunSeeker]

8. Probably only partially. Mexico and US farmers will really feel the pain if Trump imposes tariffs.

Obrador is trying to offer some face saving deal for Trump so both countries won't be unnecessarily hurt.

Of course, increasing Mexican national guard troops to 6k at Mexico's southern border will not stop the migrants. They are fleeing for their lives. It's a long border.

We need to fix the mess we made in Central America installing right wing kleptocrats who don't give a shit about their own people.

[spanone]

2. 'Diplomacy' by threat....how american.

[misanthrope]

4. Doesn't matter, this will be chalked up by many as a Trump win

It will give him big momentum. Sorry to say but true.

[SunSeeker]

9. Sadly, you are probably right. It won't matter that this will not stop the migrants.

All Trumpanzees care about is that we are humiliting brown people.

They don't really want to eliminate the migrants. They need migrants to cut their lawns, clean their houses, pick their food and take care of their brats.

[misanthrope]

11. Exactly

If Americans eliminated the desperation caused by poverty, their lifestyles would become more expensive.

[LanternWaste]

10. I doubt it.

He handles perceived victories with the same incompetence as he does absolute failure.

Happy to say but it's true.

[Amishman]

7. Speak softly and carry a big stick

And it wasn't a new idea when TR coined the phrase

[lapfog_1]

3. dear Mexico... re ransom demands...

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!

[Vinca]

5. Does Mexico have a fence to paint on the southern border? Maybe they can get helpful

hints from our military troops at the border.