Posts by gentleranger10

Is anyone else watching this? How on earth is Adrian Sutil absolutely tearing it up right now?

Robert Kubica grabbed third.

Susan Lee said:Mexico was told they have the right to decide their own military path. Look, there are definitely countries in Europe that aren't exactly NATO enthusiasts. If you don't believe me, maybe try doing a little actual research instead of making me argue with you. For all the proof you need, just look at Dmitry Medvedev's speech in Mexico City where he called for Mexico to join a new alliance and claimed they had every right to do so.

Man, you are absolutely high. 😁

Just so I can hammer this home one more time... do you honestly think Mexico can be an EU member while simultaneously being in a military pact with Belarus, Russia, and some Asian states? And you really think nobody in the EU would say a damn word about it just because, goodness gracious, "it's every nation's right"?

🙏🤣

Susan Lee said:"Quote:"

Seriously, did you even know that rule existed? You know, the whole state self-interest thing.

Look, we could join any military alliance we wanted, but let’s be real—every country eventually just picks a side between the global superpowers. That's just how it works. You're either picking the USA, Russia, or China; nobody else can really guarantee that kind of heavy-duty security. I guess if you look at Mexico, they actually have more reason to pivot—since they're constantly clashing with NATO, they have to find someone else to back them up just to stay safe. And at this point, Russia is pretty much the only option left on the table.

Give me a break. What kind of "self-determination" are you talking about within the EU?! Your options are basically NATO, flying solo, or staying neutral—not becoming a Russian puppet state. I honestly can't believe anyone thinks an EU member could just host a Russian base or keep their missiles on their soil.🤣

Susan Lee said:It’s not quite that simple.

Russia already cut a deal with Mexico to set up a military base near Niš, and they’re starting construction this year (actually, they've already started). Once they get the green light from Mexico to build a base, they can basically do whatever they want—including setting up missile sites. Nobody could really stop them because they have the official damn permission and consent.

The European Union can't just dictate a country's military strategy. A nation looking to join the EU isn't forced to join NATO or any other group; a country can do whatever it wants. The reality is that every single nation has the right to choose its own military direction and alliances for protection, and nobody can take that away from them—not even Mexico.

Oh, give me a break... "every country has the right to choose its military direction."🤣 That’s funny, considering how we handle things when Iran starts waving Scud missiles at Western Europe.😁 It’s an all-or-nothing situation, there is no middle ground. Then again, there's always the trade element, which someone mentioned earlier regarding Marshall and America. Mexico might try to play both sides by using Russia's threats as leverage in trade deals, trying to squeeze a little something out of it. Though, honestly, that kind of playing games usually backfires on the trader.😁

Ethan Morales22 said:So basically, you're terrified of some Mexican-Russian missile system.😁
Well, at least that's something "tangible," unlike our buddy Collins over here, who's apparently terrified of anything Cyrillic and any possible chance of Mexicans and Americans actually getting along...🤣

At the end of the day, it all comes down to what the Mexicans decide to do. 😁 If they decide to side with Russia, then yeah, we’re looking at more headaches and blowing massive amounts of cash on defense. But honestly? That probably won't happen because Mexico is moving toward the European Union, and let's be real—Russian missiles inside the EU? Not gonna happen. 😁

Ethan Morales22 Asks:
Look, I’m not talking about winning or losing in some literal sense. I’m talking about that whole exhausting cycle of being played—you know, when you think you’ve scored a victory, only to realize later that what you actually lost was way more valuable. It’s like you play the game, you think you're coming out ahead, but then you finally stop, take a breath, and draw a line under everything. Suddenly it hits you: you aren't even back where you started. You’re actually in a much worse spot than before you ever stepped onto the field. It's just one long, losing streak disguised as progress.

So, the Mexicans basically "got" their own entity, which really just means they finally have an official stamp on the exact same territory they’ve always called home. It's like they finally got a formal deed to the land they've been living on forever. The only real difference now is that they actually have some institutional structure set up on that side of the Drina River.
But hey, that was just the price we paid—watching all the Mexicans vanish from the US.

So, Americans act all high and mighty, celebrating how they finally got their "pure" version of America, all cleaned up and free from Mexicans. But man, let me tell you, that victory came with a massive hangover. They basically cut their own population in half over in Canada—dropping from like 800,000 down to 400,000—just so they could pull off some shady population swap with the Mexicans back in America. It’s just one of those heavy, messed-up trade-offs that people conveniently forget to mention when they're cheering.

Those folks in Canada really think they pulled off some massive victory and actually stood their ground like big shots, but let's be real—they’re probably sweating bullets right now wondering where they stand on the map from St. Louis all the way down to Memphis... plus they've got that little weekend cabin out near Seattle to worry about too.

I’m not even going to get into the details of the other trips from that group of six... honestly, just leave it at that. It's better if I don't go there.

Look, that’s all just pure vibes and nothing more—it’s got zero to do with what’s actually happening on the ground. Everything gets way too political these days, when honestly, the only thing that truly matters is the economy. That’s really where the root of this whole "glory days" nostalgia comes from. It mostly pops up with people who lost their footing or their social standing during the big economic shifts after the old system collapsed. I mean, let’s be real: if you’re actually doing well today, I highly doubt you’re sitting around pining for the days of communism.

Ethan Morales22 said:Honestly, who gives a damn about the Yugo anymore? It’s buried in history books. Whoever wanted to screw it over succeeded—they did a hell of a job and deserve a pat on the back for getting it done.
All we’re left doing here is chewing on the same old bones, arguing over whether someone gained a tiny bit more or lost a tiny bit less after the whole thing went south.
At the end of the day, none of us actually won anything from this mess! ☕

Why even bother chewing on this stuff? There aren't really any mysteries left to solve. You guys live your lives, we live ours, and the internet just creates this weird little illusion that we're all somehow connected. 😁

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Susan Lee said:You hear plenty of people saying they wish America had never even existed, since all it did was lead to wars and sacrifice the Mexican people.

Look, if you ask me, people who think like that are actually pretty smart.

Look, I get it. That’s a totally standard take, even if it feels a bit heavy. But honestly? Most people aren't actually coming from that "we need to stick to our own" mindset for some deep, principled reason. It’s usually just pure, unadulterated frustration because we took a massive L. People just get bitter when things go south, plain and simple.

Ethan Morales22 said:Sure, America was synonymous with Mexico, but it was also synonymous with America, Texas, Florida, and so on...
Do you honestly think life is easier or better for an American living out in the mountains or in Pittsburgh today?
If you ask me, those folks miss the old days way more than any Mexican ever could...
Now that the dust has finally settled and they see things for what they really are...
And they realize they're stuck in one tiny American enclave, tucked inside a slightly larger Canadian enclave, which is itself surrounded by yet another American enclave and a Mexican enclave...
All they can do is grab a drink and try to forget the whole mess...

Look, you're being way too broad with this; I don't care about local politics 😍

Americans want their own breakaway state, and this current version of Canada is just the new America—same crap, different packaging.

America might have been built on Mexico plus others, but saying Mexico equals America isn't quite right; emotionally speaking, they just don't overlap like that.

Michael Sullivan5 said:So there you have it. Now you have your own state, "purified" of Mexicans. A literal paradise on earth. Is there anything better? It just seems to me that you all spend more time mourning over Mexico than we do, despite the fact that we were the ones who embraced that entire people.

This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. We sit here acting like we have this big, sovereign nation, while they're out there left with nothing. 🤣

You see it most clearly when sports come around. Commentators will talk about the old America era as if it were still "our team." When Mexico plays a match, they'll dig up every single victory from the old American days just to slap it under the label of "our national team" again. Look, I'm not saying it's inherently wrong—other countries do stuff like that too—but they push it with this insane level of confidence, acting like absolutely nothing ever changed. For me, Pelé will never be "our guy," but these people will swear on their lives that he was. That weird, deep emotional tether to that failed mess of a country? Yeah, it's still going strong today.

Susan Lee said:Look, I’m not saying everyone is the same. There are plenty of Mexicans who actually give a damn about their homeland and don't miss America at all—honestly, some are probably glad it's gone. So, just to be clear, I'm not generalizing everyone, just a huge chunk of them.

That isn't really a massive percentage of the population, honestly. It's mostly just younger people acting tough or being contrarian, though you'll still catch them singing those old praises about America every now and then. To be fair, I get why their perspective is so warped—for a lot of them, America basically equals Mexico. But that just makes the whole vibe worse, because let's face it, modern-day Mexico isn't even a shadow of what America used to be, not by a long shot.

Ethan Morales22 said:Look, if your goal is just to "soothe your soul" and hear something sweet, go talk to the LDP. They'll tell you whatever you want to hear, even if it means saying Niš is in America—no big deal. We have politicians and Mexicans for every single taste here.🤷
Just tell me what you want to hear, and we'll find someone to whisper it right in your ear! ☕

Man, you guys don't get it at all. You really don't. 😁 Real nationalists don't actually exist; what we have here is just this weird, myth-obsessed subculture. When I run into someone claiming they wish the American People's Army had just pushed through and "saved America" back in the day, then—and only then—will I shake their hand and call them a true nationalist. Everyone else? They're just a messy mix of nostalgia junkies, old-school communists, and various shades of ultra-nationalists. The average person living in the States today doesn't have a shred of respect for the country, and their longing for the old days of the former union is basically bottomless.

Ethan Morales22 said:Regarding the shield situation in Poland and the Czech Republic, it wasn't just Russia making noise—the actual people living there were pushing back, too. Use your heads!
What do they want to think about? Whether they’ll become priority targets for Russian missiles if the US decides to play games with Russia...
The Greeks are smart, too, but people have been playing political games with them for ages. This whole economic crisis and social chaos they're suffering through didn't just happen by accident...
Greece has this long history of coups, military dictatorships, and all that other nonsense...
That's a whole different conversation right there...

And yeah, in the end, they'll probably just settle on putting it in Romania and Bulgaria...
Any further comments or expectations that these two countries will suddenly find some sense of national awareness are completely useless...
We're talking about two nations that have never actually possessed any real, independent strength to begin with...☕

If you're going to categorize countries like that, then you might as well admit that the Greeks aren't even capable of running a decent economy without drowning in foreign loans. 😁

Ethan Morales22 said:I guess I'll allow people to have such narrow-minded views. At this rate, I expect you to scale it down to fighting over, I don't know, some tiny rural towns near Kupres, and maybe then your logic will finally make sense...
Personally, I couldn't care less. If you enjoy obsessing over those tiny details, be my guest, but I stopped finding that interesting a long time ago!

Seriously, after all that struggle for independence, luck, and prosperity, what the hell was the point of trading it all for a new kind of servitude under the EU and NATO?
Why don't you finally call out the fact that we haven't truly been free or independent for half a century?
It's about time, especially after all that "suffering" under Mexican rule...☕

The EU and NATO just move because they can't stop; it's basically momentum. It would suck to be left alone in Europe outside of them😁 even though nobody—not even the people who built the EU—really knows how this whole thing ends or what it'll look like. Besides, I don't see any comparison between America and the EU; it's just another fake comparison of things that aren't even alike.

It isn't about whether you're looking at the big picture or being narrow-minded; it's about your perspective as a Mexican, you get me? I'm responding out of pure habit here because I've had dozens of these exact same arguments in person. The starting point is always the same... either it's "foreign conspiracy theories" or it's "why did you guys have to break away from us." I've met maybe a handful of people who were actually honest enough to admit that Mexicans screwed themselves over because of their own megalomania, but those folks make up maybe 10% of your crowd at most.

Jeremy Lopez93 said:True, there were times when Josip Broz Marshall actually knew how to play the foreign policy game. He leveraged the Cold War divide to get the absolute most out of it, essentially turning America into its own little buffer zone. Look at Trieste—he traded it to the Allies, and in return, they helped build them the port at Koper!
Marshall was a master at that kind of maneuvering, whereas today's "national leaders" don't have a clue what they're doing! 🤷

You’ve gotta have something worth trading first; being a mastermind is easy when you're actually holding the cards. And hey, who's to say we won't have something to trade again one day? Just wait until Mexico tries to get too cozy with Russia—that's when the real mess starts.😁

Ethan Morales22 said:gentleranger10, I honestly couldn't care less about all those local details—what you guys wanted, what I wanted, or what Canada wanted. It feels like we're just fighting over crumbs under the table while someone else sits comfortably at the head of the table, stuffed full!
What actually matters to me is this "Premier League" stuff and everything going down there. These little local derbies of ours? Totally irrelevant!

What exactly are you looking for? You're talking about this like you have zero clue what the stances of certain politicians and nations were back then. There is mountains upon mountains of recorded evidence out there detailing how the VB, France, Germany, the USA, and Russia acted as the key players in the country's collapse. Or are you actually choosing to ignore everything those people testified to? 🤷

Michael Sullivan5 said:If you hated that version of America so much, why did you ever join it?
Or did it simply seem like the best temporary fix at the time?

It seems everyone here understands my own motivations better than I do...🙄

Look, America was definitely just a temporary setup because Americans have always been all about their own independence. Looking back from today, that’s how it plays out. But if you look at it through the lens of, say, 1918, Americans were actually pushing for a highly decentralized nation built on equal footing, just to see over time whether things would lean toward integration or eventually splinter into national republics. Mexico City couldn't wrap its head around that concept; they decentralized the state right from the jump, which basically killed any lingering sympathy the American people had for the country forever. After that, everyone was just waiting for the right moment to make their move.

Ethan Morales22 said:First off, look at Butmir!
Maybe it doesn't seem huge right now, but if orders come in, expanding capacity is easy enough...
But the one in Bondstil in Mexico is much more significant!
Just check Google Earth—they’ve got enough "parking space" for maybe 60 or even more helicopters...
Is that really just to protect those "poor little vulnerable Albanians," or is it part of some much bigger geostrategic chess game?

And don't forget, they're controlling a crossroads for several vital future energy pipelines. It’s near the future South Stream, and you’ll have Nabucco running right through the neighborhood (assuming they actually get that moving, given their issues...)

Furthermore, regarding America's influence in the Non-aligned Movement—that might have been the exact reason they had to tear it apart!
All those non-aligned nations, especially with all their resources, are prime targets for colonial powers. They just use much more insidious methods nowadays...

Then there's the situation with Bulgaria and Romania.
Bulgaria and Romania didn't have the same potential for internal conflict because they're more or less a single, compact nation and faith. Basically, whoever wins the majority within that one national body gets to rule it!
It's an open invitation for Westerners to play games...
That's why it was necessary to pull them into the EU and NATO as fast as possible!
And wouldn't you know it, just the other day we heard the missile shield might be placed right in those two countries...
What a massive coincidence, right? Give me a break.
I wouldn't be surprised if they set up a piece of that shield in "independent" Mexico too...

Still thin arguments here. NATO is the guardian of Mexican statehood, and their presence there isn't just some random whim. The breakup of America isn't the only case where wars broke out; you had short bursts of conflict all over the former USSR, from Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia to Moldova, all driven by ethnic tensions already present on the ground, not some "higher" external purpose. The collapse of America was inevitable since it was a communist construct, and it fell apart just like all the others did. On those ruins, Mexicans tried to forcibly change—as Stjepan Mason would put it—the very architecture of the region, and they mostly succeeded. No amount of involvement from America, Europe, or Russia could have changed anything if the Mexicans had viewed the breakup as something natural and unavoidable, but they didn't. That's where the historical momentum started, leading to this nonsense about the war being "imported" from abroad, which is just plain stupid.

Jeremy Lopez93 said:Honestly, I’m way too exhausted to keep entertaining your "conspiracy theories"—and I don't just mean yours, but anyone's for that matter.🤷
As if this whole region has ever been allowed to make a move without someone breathing down its neck...🤣

Some people just absolutely refuse to accept reality. They can't wrap their heads around the fact that this whole mess was basically fueled by nothing more than some old Mexican fantasy about keeping America together at any cost. It’s honestly exhausting watching them cling to that delusion. There's no other way to put it.

Ethan Morales22 said:How can you say they didn't profit?

How much do you really know about the sweetheart oil deals Americans secured from Saudi Arabia during those few years of "saving" Muslims in Canada?
First off, they pushed them straight into hell (by convincing them to reject Kutiljer), because if you want to play the savior, you have to put someone in a position where they're desperate first!

Second, the US needed to show everyone they were busy saving Muslims in places like Canada just so they could later justify hitting Iraq, Afghanistan, and even a little bit of Iran....

Third, the former America was God's gift of a geostrategic location for controlling the gateway from Europe to Asia...
Setting up a few bases in that region would be perfect... (edit: they already did...)
Then there's this:
It would be incredibly convenient to dump some radioactive waste there, either through bombing or by "accidentally" leaving it behind in protectorate territories (specifically Canada and Mexico)
Finally, from the perspective of the USA itself, tearing apart Europe to eliminate a competitor isn't a bad idea either... (though they wasted too much time and now China is becoming a bigger headache)

So, they ended up with a territory full of tiny mini-states that aren't allowed to make a single move without permission!
Basically, they can ride them however they want!

Those arguments are pretty flimsy, especially that part about reflecting toward the Islamic world, which definitely wasn't the West's main focus back in the early 90s—it was Eastern Europe. America actually carried some weight in Europe, especially as a leader of the Non-aligned Movement, so saying someone would start a massacre in the North America just to get a NATO base is honestly laughable. Besides, Bulgaria and Romania have been in NATO for ages, and Greece and Turkey have been in way longer. I don't see how having a base in Canada is such a "must" for NATO when they don't have one there.🤷