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Sheinbaum rejects US ‘invasion’ after Trump orders military to target Mexico cartels
(www.theguardian.com)
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Ukraine has the benefit of bordering a powerful alliance that is giving them weapons, Mexico does not.
Guatemala, Belize, and boats from Cuba are nowhere near the same thing as getting literal trainloads of heavy weapons and fighting vehicles through Poland.
comparing Mexican/Cartel resistance to an aggressive America, is not even in the same conversation as the bumbling fuckwit Russian invasion of Europe.
The EU and the US is giving Ukraine weapons because every bunch of old tech we give them means one less Russian armored division we need to worry about.
Why would China not do the same and fire up a whole bunch of container ships loaded with old shit and drop it off in Latin America? How long would it take for the US occupation force to start to find Chinese missile launchers and drones taking Abrams platoons to the cleaners?
And if the US started a Mexican occupation, do you think the whole of Latin America would just look on, or rather drift into a Chinese sphere of influence as a result? How long until you had Chinese military presence in Panama for example? Imagine a blockade on US trade in Panama, enforced by Chinese anti-ship missiles.
It would be the mother of all clusterfucks.
Ukraine doesn't have to worry about Russian troops intercepting Aid trans and planes coming from the west. (although they do a good job at stirring up locals into doing things like farmer protests blocking aid)
Central america on the other hand, Has the entire pacific ocean, and the US Navy to deal with. if the US was off the rails on fascist-invade-your-neighbors mode. the navy would absolutely be blockading the region and sinking any ship that came near it that tried to break the blockade.
I'm sorry, your analogy just doesnt work. yes there would be some attempts at international interference and shitpot stirring in that scenario, but Mexico is in a very poor position to defend itself if they were ever invaded. The Americans biggest problem would be internal protest and internal violence.
Would the US Navy be able to block every Chinese container ship to approach the whole of the Americas? Note, they aren't warships, they are there for trade, legitimate trade actually. Would it be able to stop every ship the Chinese might be able to charter? Even searching those ships would be an insane task. Would they be able to check under every crate of bananas whether there is a guided missile hiding in there? Would they be able to do that without the oligarchs who will be bleeding money screeching bloody murder?
It would effectively have the US sanction itself, and cause the US to have larger problems than Mexican insurgents. Like the dollar being worth nothing. It's not 1940 anymore. The world is in this together, and our economies are tightly coupled enough that even sanctioning regional players like Russia have dire economic consequences.
And China would already be happy that the US is spending all that money maneuvering carrier groups around looking for 200 dollar assault rifles. Same logic as in Ukraine, one dollar spent in aid causes fifty in damage to the invaders' economy. And China can outmanufacture the US easily at this point.