Summits, Guns, and Money

<p>As President Trump pushes to unwind one proxy war—with Russia in Ukraine—he’s ramping up another in this hemisphere: ordering the Pentagon to ready battle plans against Latin American drug cartels. On our panel, Cato scholars weigh the odds of a Putin deal and the risk of replaying past drug war disasters.</p><br /><p>Justin Logan,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cato.org/commentary/trump-shouldnt-settle-european-spending-pledges" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Trump Shouldn’t Settle for European Spending Pledges,”</a>&nbsp;<em>Foreign Policy</em>, July 25, 2025</p><br /><p>Brandan P. Buck,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cato.org/commentary/invading-mexico-will-not-solve-cartel-problem" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Invading Mexico Will Not Solve the Cartel Problem,”</a>&nbsp;<em>The American Conservative</em>, December 17, 2024</p><br /><p>Ian Vasquez, “<a href="https://www.cato.org/free-society/spring-2025/deregulation-argentina-milei-takes-deep-chainsaw-bureaucracy-red-tape" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Deregulation in Argentina: Milei Takes “Deep Chainsaw” to Bureaucracy and Red Tape</a>,” Free Society (Spring 2025)</p><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>