Eric Prince

The most important aspect of this is that there's no U.S.

taxpayer money funding this.

This is the Haitian government with very minimal funds are paying Western professionals to help enable their police.

So I think it's a model that will work in other places as well.

Perhaps there were some covert actions that worked.

But to me, this is not solved by carrier air wings and B-52s.

This is done by making people change their minds really at the margin.

And it's really Maduro, Diosdado Cabello, Jorge and Delcy Rodriguez, the Padrino, the head of the military,

Until they drive all those folks out, I don't think Maduro himself is going to leave because the other people won't let them leave if they don't get the same deal.

So look, you have a narco-captured state with enormous oil wealth as well.

And it is a very benign, not benign, malign influence on the rest of Latin America.

So President Trump is right to actually push for the legitimate government to be restored, which won the election a year ago, July.

But again, I wish our CIA was much more active and much more kinetic, because it saves the

policymakers the difficult decision of having to deploy lots of conventional force at great cost and at much greater risk.

When you start deploying massive military force into Mexico, that comes with all kinds of secondary and tertiary consequences that Mexico is, I think, our largest or second largest trading partner.

So we would have massive upheaval in trade.

And again,

Again, in Mexico, almost like in Haiti, we are protecting 99% from the 1% massive criminal, feral gangs.

And in all these places where they've allowed crime and drugs to make so much money that they start to overmatch the state, it becomes impossibly difficult.

The United States has invaded Mexico twice.