I'm not ok with it

I'm conflicted. On the one hand, cartel criminality is not debatable.

The USCG firing at drug boats is totally acceptable. Even if they were just outside of our territorial waters. The cartels are ruthless because that world is ruthless. If it doesn't go through Venezuela, another country will be corrupted, there's too much money in it. We spend a lot of money, time, and police work on drugs and it doesn't seem to make a difference. This gunboat show is just that - a show - and it will make no difference. We need to stop the overdoses.

I sometimes wonder if we could arrive at an understood deal. That if they (cartels, etc.) didn't mix fentanyl in with other drugs, and got the dosages right, that they wouldn't be pursued as hard as those who continued to mix and get dosages wrong, reducing deaths. I have uneasy feelings about that though. We'd be semi cooperating with cartels.