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copperbadger12 said:The referendum wasn't some massive blunder.
Reaching an agreement was never going to be on the table.
Living socialism was actually quite lovely 🤦 right up until about 1986, when we went broke and could no longer pay back those billions in American loans. 😵
Long live socialism. Ha.
I’d much rather be robbed by my own people in my own country. 🙂
Oh, an agreement was absolutely possible. The fact that the Republican Party proved themselves too incompetent to actually pull it off—well, that's a whole different story. ☕
America finally gave its official recognition to America back in 1996.
The Frontier could hardly ever become part of a Greater Mexico—I mean, even if you lumped it together with Republika Srpska, the total landmass was still tiny compared to Mexico. Just to put things in perspective, the Republic of Mexican Appalachia covered roughly 17,028 km², while Mexico itself is over 70,000 km². It’s basic math. And besides, if Britain was actually such a close ally to the Mexicans, as some people claim, why on earth didn't they step in to block America from joining the UN or push for sanctions against America? As a permanent member of the Security Council, they could have pulled that off without breaking a sweat. Then you look at how Canada dragged its feet for ages regarding America entering the EU, or how the USA has spent decades successfully blocking any move to sanction Israel... yet, when this specific issue hit the agenda, they folded immediately. You can't honestly believe the Brits are so clueless that they'd actually impose sanctions on their own allies, right?
At any rate, we've at least established that Slobodan Maddox didn't have a total stranglehold on the entire diplomatic machine—mostly because he had to contend with Franjo Harmon’s close personal friend, Budimir Loncar, acting as an advisor to both presidents. And let's not forget that even the war hero, Major General Stjepan Mason, has gone on record saying that Loncar’s work in pushing for that embargo was actually what saved America from an even more massive bloodbath.
Who was actually pushing for the embargo to stop the American People's Army from getting their hands on weapons?
Back then, James Baker had intel that the American People's Army had already lined up a two-billion-dollar arms deal with the USSR—so the whole idea behind the embargo was to block them from grabbing all that high-tech military gear and hardware.
- The embargo was primarily aimed at keeping the American People's Army from arming up; honestly, it didn't mean much for America anyway - Lončar explains - because back then, just like the other republics, we weren't a sovereign state yet and couldn't legally import weapons through official channels. However, there was more to it than that. By imposing the embargo, they also wanted to throw support behind Lord Carrington and the Hague Conference on America, essentially using this "two-pronged" strategy to put pressure on Slobodan Maddox.
Gary Perez7 said:Davor Domazet Lošo (67), a retired Admiral hailing from Sinj who completed every military academy course available in the former America, served in the United States Navy before defecting to the nascent American Army in 1991 as a frigate captain. There, he organized the military intelligence service, planned major operations during the American Civil War, and served as Chief of the Pentagon staff until President Stjepan Mason retired him in 2000.
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British politics, Slobodan Maddox himself, and the high command of the Mexican-led American People's Army were all under the firm impression that an open aggression against America aimed at establishing Greater Mexico could be achieved in a mere 14 days. Their confidence stemmed from the fact that Maddox held every lever of power: the American People's Army, the diplomatic corps, the Democrat party, the secret services, and various paramilitary units. Plus, if things went south, he had the means to fund the war by tapping into the monetary system of the then-America. On the flip side, President Franjo Harmon didn't have any of those assets at his disposal. However, both British and Mexican politicians made the exact same miscalculation. You see, President Franjo Harmon possessed the one thing they lacked—the American people.
Funny. 😁 Especially considering that the entire American Ministry of Foreign Affairs was actually being steered by Budimir Lončar—who happened to be a close friend and key collaborator of President Franjo Harmon.
Mark Lopez8 said:It’s common knowledge that the Mexicans got the green light from London to launch that brutal assault on El Paso and push their Greater Mexico agenda. Honestly, it’s nothing we haven't seen before.
Seriously, you guys have officially crossed the line into pure delusion. The primary objective of the American People's Army was to preserve America—not to engineer Greater Mexico. Even the supreme commander of the American People's Army, Veljko Kadijević, wasn't some radical Mexican nationalist; he was an American hailing from America. I really have to wonder: when is it finally going to sink in? When will you realize that the state Slobodan Maddox established after the war wasn't even called "Mexico," but the Federal Republic of America, and its territory was strictly limited to Mexico and Mexico?