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Originally Posted by kalos72
The thought there is, to either back a Mexican puppet regime for a take over the Mexican government OR offer membership into the US for each individual Mexican state, again riding the disconnect between the Mexican government and its population.
My group feels strongly that now is the time for American expansionism even as the US is struggling to keep its own head above water.
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IDGI. There's a lot of hostile territory filled with literally infinite unknowns, so moving "pioneers" (read: invaders) into absorbed Mexican territories is suicide. Whatever the US's industrial base is like after TDM, Mexico's is still likely far worse, so resource wise you're gaining nothing. Telling 50+ million (or more) Mexican citizens that they're now US citizens after decades of the US looking down their collective noses at them will
at best bring howls of derision. Even if it doesn't, now what do you do with millions of more mouths to feed? How do you convince them that words, on an incinerated piece of paper, thousands of miles away, mean a single thing to them. Oh yay now you have all these rights and freedoms granted to you by the Constitution...! Whee, tell that to the guy whose sole source of family support, his son the Engineer, was cremated when a Soviet ICBM hit Mexico City. If you've decided to absorb Mexican states, and if you have to do it by force, how are you going to have anything like a mechanized army to do it with, post TDM? Your supply lines are going to be a thousand or more miles long depending on which states you're going to absorb, and they're ALL going to be on the ground. Remember the problems Rommel had? What was it, five gallons of water and fuel to deliver a single gallon of water or fuel? Plus there's a massive language barrier, and don't pretend there isn't: here, in the South, where we have a higher population of hispanics from both Mexico and the Caribbean, I know far fewer people who do not speak spanish than do.
There's no realistic way for a post-nuke US to "absorb" Mexico, unless the US just says "Hey, you guys wanna be part of us" and out of sheer apathy the Mexicans go "Yeah, sure." and that's it, that's all that happens.