I guess I’m considering the nature of the question if the consequence of non-compliance is not even economic, but just simply murdering people. Because I can apply economic analysis to one, but the what you’re suggesting just sounds like naked terrorism, which warrants a different kind of thinking.
Stealing land from Mexico is an Amerikkkan tradition. But then what? The Fourth Reich is going to make their own shoes or pick their own lettuce? They could do that in any of the other land they stole from Mexico, like Texas. The formula is cheap labour inside other people’s borders. The whole point of those factories being there is they’re explicitly not in the US, and it would defeat the whole point to seize the land they’re on. So what then? They’re going to take the land AND the people? Is the presumption they will turn Mexico into a slave colony? If so, capitulation is defeat and Mexico should buy nukes and prepare for war right now.
These people live in a fantasy world to think such threats would produce anything other than their own collapse.
Mike Waltz’s statement to the UN is more unhinged than the bullshit they cooked up for Iraq 2.
“There is no war against Venezuela or its people. We are not occupying a country. This was a law enforcement operation in furtherance of lawful indictments that have existed for decades.”
Honestly? What is daddy amerikkka going to do? Move their factories to China to punish Mexico? Amerikkka is depends on Mexico for a lot of food and other things, and they can’t really do anything to change that because it would make the line go down.
I don’t know much about how political power works in Mexico, but I assumed that something like this would have to get approved by Sheinbaum, and she seemed unlikely to fold. Is this a backchannel thing or did they find a way to pressure her?
Fico: “I give Trump credit for one thing: he didn’t justify his decision with false pretexts about the need to spread democracy or protect human rights, as the Biden administration or any previous American president would have done. He openly talked about controlling Venezuelan oil and the entry of American companies into the Venezuelan oil industry”
42·21 hours ago
Sorry, I should have phrased that differently.
I guess I’m considering the nature of the question if the consequence of non-compliance is not even economic, but just simply murdering people. Because I can apply economic analysis to one, but the what you’re suggesting just sounds like naked terrorism, which warrants a different kind of thinking.