Mexico’s president says ‘there will be no invasion … it’s absolutely off the table’ after news reports of order
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has rejected the idea that the US might invade Mexico after news reports suggested Donald Trump had authorized the use of military force targeting drug cartels deemed terrorist organizations in Latin American countries.
“The United States is not going to come to Mexico with their military,” she said during a daily news conference on Friday. “We cooperate, we collaborate, but there will be no invasion. It’s off the table, absolutely off the table.”
The Mexican president said her government had been informed of the executive order but insisted that “it had nothing to do with the participation of any military or any institution on our territory. There is no risk that they will invade our territory.”
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.