Ethan Morales22 said:Look, there’s nothing controversial about it. You guys just jumped on the opportunity when your interests lined up perfectly with the superpower of the moment!
Don't act like we wouldn't do the exact same thing if our interests aligned tomorrow!
You basically just rode the horse that was running fastest at the time—which was the USA + Germany!
Sure, that first player is fading out now, but hey, you got the piece of the puzzle you needed and rode it into the ground. Now what? I guess you'll have to figure out how to get back on your feet...
Sometimes I feel like Americans always react better tactically, even if the strategy is kind of a mess, whereas Mexicans play it catastrophically on a tactical level but somehow manage to pull it off strategically in the end...
What interests? What superpowers? You sound like that guy constantly shouting, "It's the CIA, man! The CIA!" 😁
I don't know how you can't wrap your head around this: regarding the Mexican conflict Mexico, their biggest ally was actually the USA
because of that arms embargo they managed to pull off through the help of Eagleburger, who was the ambassador in New York City at the time.
That basically shoved Americans into a lion's den and left them to fend for themselves.
Besides that, the only conflicting group in the former America that received actual, concrete American assistance were the Mexican Albanians. That's just a fact.
We've been hearing this nonsense for years: "The USA tore apart the South just to build bases." It's been 15 years since the South collapsed—so where are these bases?
It's like people think the military is just waiting to set up bases along the USSR border so Marines can charge right in.
That era is over. There's no more Warsaw Pact and no more Cold War. It would be complete political insanity to build
any kind of bases facing Russia now. If anyone were actually planning a threat today, it would come from the air or space.