I'm John Batchewitt, Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College. This is the New World Report.

The professor mentions Mexico. In these last days, the President of the United States has made remarks about intervening in Mexico against drug cartels.

The President of Mexico, Claudia Shinebom, said it's not going to happen.

This is a story that's as old as North America about the U.S. intervening in Central America,

before and after the European powers left Mexico. The expedition led by John Pershing in 1916 comes to mind called a punitive expedition to punish Pancho Villa and the gangsters along the border.

The president is alluding to that when he talks about the U.S. intervention.

However, Professor, we just have a couple of minutes.

Intervening in Mexico is a whole different scale.S. intervention. However, Professor, we just have a couple of minutes. Intervening in Mexico is a whole different scale and seems extremely unlikely. Do you agree?

I do agree, John. And there are political and other sensitivities involved.

Clearly, when President Trump mentioned that he would be open to intervening in Mexico, and we

actually do collaborate with Mexicans. They have allowed us to do drone flights. We share

intelligence and things like that. But the Claudius Scheinbaum in one of her maniaires said

that every time that President Trump suggests these things, they say, no, Mexico wants to do

things on their

on their own.

But as you also alluded to, independent of the question of whether Mexico allows the U.S.

to do operations on Mexican territory, to which, because of those previous legacy of U.S.

military activity in Mexico, the Mexicans are very, that's off limits for the Mexicans.

That's a real red line for them.

But in addition to that, the Mexicans are very frustrated with the ongoing insecurity and in violence.

Even though violence is actually down under Claudia Shine and Shinebomb, there were recently major protests

across the country, maybe as many as 50 different cities over.

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