I feel the need to chime in here. I never bought the “leftist-Marxist†government in Mexico premise of the original timeline even when I was 10. Considering the support the U.S. gave right wing military governments in the rest of Latin America through the 70’s and 80’s, there is no way we would have allowed that to happen in Mexico.
Mexico may have elected some kind of green/catholic socialist/land reform party, but they would never have provided the military with the resources to threaten the U.S. Other than organizing some kind of labor movement among agricultural workers, I could not even imagine an expansionist “leftist†government in Mexico.
The only way I could ever reconcile a Mexican invasion of the U.S. (which is a cool gaming idea) is a military Junta. I could see the Cubans aligned with a Mexican Junta because the Junta could still be a populist movement, but not a Marxist one.
O.K. I loved Red Dawn and played Fortress America and though the SDI system was a good idea. However, Regan never, ever, ever, ever would have allowed anything resembling the Sandinistas to take power in Mexico.
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