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So you’re still using guns but you’re letting them drag it out. Great work.

You’re dealing with an unsophisticated thuggish bully. You need to call their shit in a way that makes them look weak, and punish them for trying shit but still let them slink away. Incentivize shutting the hell up and never mentioning you again.

If you let them shoot back, you need to kill so fucking many to end it. If you challenge them they have to escalate.

If you kill them, then lie about it brazenly and obviously. they’re punished, and calling you on the lie makes them look weak, costing them face on both sides of the border. Literally any evidence they have or claim to have can be safely denied; their credibility hovers around nil; it’s genuinely a weird political moment when one of them says something that’s just true. You’d get Luigi nangione type ‘he couldn’t have shot that man, he was at my house’ type testimony from at least half the country.

It’s the best chance to avoid the need for large scale killing. Long term you’re saving American lives if you do it all quick and clean(ish). Not that they’re not just gonna get spent on some other dumb shit, but it won’t be on you. Return the bodies when the regime falls and apologize for the necessity of killing them after the regime falls if you really want to be decorous about it.

Or just shoot em all, say they never showed, and thank the Americans for free mining gear. A gift is a gift and even if you’re not planning to use it you can still be polite.

This administration calling anyone a liar is just gonna get a laugh. Maybe suggest they got lost and offer to send out search parties, then make it an actual party. Really have fun with it. Make attacking you an admission that they’re mad, raise the domestic political cost. They’ll memory hole all of it.

Speaking as someone from america:

If you kill them, they’ll try to spin it as justification for war. This can be mitigated. Might blow back on the administration anyway.

If you let them keep going, they’ll see you as weak and try to invade. There’s apparently a munitions shortage, so that could get pretty interesting.

If you try to stop them without killing them, you’re so fucking fucked. They’ll never stop coming, and it will become a weird racist/nationalist thing with lots of conspiracies. Peace will become domestically costly for any us admin to do. The dead are easier than the imprisoned. That’s not to say you can’t apply legal process, but you need high confidence there’s a rope at the end.

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