4/10/25 Bill Buppert on the Prospects for War in Iran and Northern Mexico

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Scott interviews Bill Buppert about two potential conflicts that some groups within the Trump administration appear to be pushing for. They start with the reported interest shown in carrying out direct military operations against the Mexican cartels. Scott and Buppert discuss why this would be a terrible idea and that it would likely not stay contained in Northern Mexico. They then take a look at the prospects for a war with Iran and draw similar conclusions. Discussed on the show: Sicario (IMDb) Chasing Ghosts Podcast WarNotes Podcast Bill Buppert is the Smedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs at the Libertarian Institute and host of Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast. He served in the military for nearly a quarter century and was a combat tourist in a number of neo-imperialist shit-pits planet-wide. He can be found on Twitter at @wbuppert and reached via email at [email protected]. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	he did a
0:02.3	he did a
0:05.0	kind of symposium at one of these think tanks
0:07.5	in DC where they had all the
0:10.3	pro coin
0:11.6	you know Petraeus and McChrystallites
0:15.0	this is right in the era of the escalation
0:17.6	of the Afghan war in the early Obama years
0:20.5	and you know how some of these things they'll have of the escalation of the Afghan war in the early Obama years.
0:24.4	And you know how some of these things,
0:30.4	they'll have a token opponent to come up and say why everybody's wrong, you know?
0:30.8	Indeed.
0:35.7	Like Peter Schiff at the Realtors Banquet in Las Vegas in 2006.
0:40.5	So in this case, they said, okay, well, we're going to bring on our naysayer.
0:42.6	Our naysayers are going to be Andy Bacevic.
0:45.0	So come up here, Colonel, and tell us why we're all wrong.
0:52.5	And so then he proposes that we invade Mexico and install good men and fight a massive counterinsurgency campaign against the native population who resist
0:59.6	us in the name of wiping out and also in conjunction with wiping out the drug cartels
1:05.6	and all of this stuff and the fact that it's, it's our neighbors, but it's essentially a somewhat
1:13.2	different civilization from ours down there and all of that. Notwithstanding, like, we're just going to
1:21.6	put the right viceroy in charge and we're going to remake Mexico the way we want it to be.
1:28.3	And so, and in fact, I think the way he said it was, he proposed exactly what they were
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