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From the National Palace, Claudia Sheinbaum drew a red line around Mexican sovereignty, insisting that collaboration could not mean submission. Her counteroffensive—targeting U.S. gun makers as accomplices to “terrorist” violence—flipped the accusation back across the border. Surrounded by parallel crises, from the Epstein archive to Middle East escalation, Washington framed its stance as moral clarity. In reality, both nations now stand locked in a high-tech standoff where any miscalculation could turn a legal designation into a regional conflagration.
