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Mexican here. This is happening as much as “the wall” happened. Don’t let him distract you from the H1B issue.
Ahh the important things that will improve all American lives
Politics aside, “Gulf of Mexico” sounds way cooler. Easier and more fun to say, too.
This is the first step to annex another region.
- Historical Claim
- Support separatist or militia in these region
- Fabricate or Encourage attack on the border
- Impose light economical sanctions
- People in such country will get fed up and will increase clashes with the government.
- Government start anti-usa imperialism and start military campaign against them.
- USA say they are committing genocide or something and question their sovereignty
- USA announce special operation to restore peace
Cycle continue ….
We saw this in Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and many other countries that the USA has admitted funding different group inside them to destabilize them. But now it seems trump plan or asked to do the same with both Mexico and canada.
They can justify it with Mexico because of drugs and immigrants, but it is harder for Canada. They US news tried to blame canada for “terrorist” and “illegal immigrants” but it seems they are following the same stories with Mexico.
They’ll just claim illegal immigrants represent an “invasion.” They’ll use that as casus belli to invade Mexican territory, and then simply claim occupied lands as spoils of war. They’ll also be able to make a practical argument, “well Mexico clearly can’t manage the border regions. Look at the anarchy there!”
I don’t see MAGA trying to seize all of Mexico. They wouldn’t want to take the heavily populated core around Mexico City, that’s for sure. But the more lightly populated border states? That would be much more tantalizing. Also, they could justify intervention in the border states as “protecting American investments,” referring to all the factories US companies have built right across the border.
Relocating an entire industrial plant is hard and expensive. One of the quickest ways to “bring manufacturing back to America” is to simply move the border to encompass already existing factories.
Canada would be a lot harder to justify, but casus belli can always be found. It just takes one person fleeing to Canada to escape charges for getting or performing an abortion. Suddenly Canada is “harboring fugitives.” Or attempt to relitigate the US/Canada border disputes of the 1800s. Or just claim fentanyl is being smuggled in from Canada. Etc. A casus belli can always be found or manufactured.
ah yes, the annexed regions of Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
The media now see’s it’s job as shutting up and taking the bait, i see
Worse than doing nothing, useless garbage. How is their impeachment of Biden going? Did Comer and Jordan resign yet for falling for a spy’s testimony as their smoking gun evidence?
Well the US can call it the Gulf of bullshit all they want, for the rest of the world it IS the gulf of Mexico. Renaming it doesn’t give them anything extra, or any rights.
Its actually just really really petty and little, just some nonsense so that his base can say " look ge is really working hard for us!"
I mean, I guess each country has the right to make up their own names if they want to…
Eehhh, not to rain on your parade but in Ukraine it was Putin’s Russia doing the funding and support, not the US.
Not that it matters much, the US has a long history of fucking over other countries, Nicaragua, chile, Iran, just a few examples.
Either way, they’ve never been as brazen and petty about it
President Freedom Fries can call it whatever the fuck he wants. That doesn’t make it internationally recognized.
The reason Trump is doing this is so that we are not focusing on the rift in the party over H1B visas.
Where the fuck are the Democrats hitting the issue while it’s hot with 3 interviews a day agreeing with the average Republican over Trump and Musk?
where the fuck are the democrats?
Pointing fingers at each other and drifting further to the right, probably.
Ignoring everyone. Then when it’s election season again, they’ll act like you’re a Russian troll who just started talking to spread division.
2016-2020 : President of Alternate Facts 2025-2029: President of Alternate Reality
I feel like it’s not great to say “Congress is already prepping” instead of “Marjorie Taylor Greene is prepping legistlation”
She has been legitimized at this point, unfortunately. She has committee assignments and the backing of the Speaker so there’s now a high likelihood she has the leverage to get bills passed. Also the incoming GOP trifecta means she will be far far more close to the political center of Congress than ever before.
Rational National pointed out that the ‘Gulf of America’ name was actually a joke Colbert made back in 2010 when he was still doing the Colbert Report.
Roughly 2 minutes into this video:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BtzFxY66F7s
Old article about MSFT donating to Colbert’s ‘Gulf of America’ charity aimed at cleaning up / mitigating oil spills from rigs that broke after Katrina:
We live in the Demented Clowns timeline, honk honk.
Well that’s a depressing watch…
I hope he doesn’t hear about the Gulf of California. He is not going to understand that the Californias were Mexican and, thus, the Gulf is still named after the fact. He’s going to claim some wacky s*it like “the name indicates it belongs to one of our states”, “Mexicans are trying to steal California’s assets”, or something like that.
