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Texas’ proximity to Mexico is a dream for both. Cheap, clean energy, an abundance of workers, and a stable trading partner.
Cheap/clean energy and Texas don’t seem to line up. They have an oil and natural gas monopoly that goes all the way up to their elected officials. It’s literally why they had that massive grid failure. It wasn’t a capacity issue it was just greed.
The USMCA has been very good for Mexico. It’s one of those facts that’s off narrative so virtually nobody knows it’s so.
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When? Mexico doesn't even control all its own territory: a lot of it is controlled by narco cartels.
Nothing the US military can’t fix (or make things worse?) when the time comes. If the cartels get in the way of making money through industry they will be taken down a few notches.
The USMCA has been very good for Mexico. It’s one of those facts that’s off narrative so virtually nobody knows it’s so.
What is USMCA?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico%E...
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Nothing the US military can’t fix (or make things worse?) when the time comes. If the cartels get in the way of making money through industry they will be taken down a few notches.
The US military would be unable to defeat the cartels. The US military is designed to fight standing armies, not criminal organizations or insurgencies. Any plausible solution to the cartel issue will take a long time to implement and require some unpalatable choices. For example: indefinite suspension of legal rights and due process for all military age males; arbitrary arrests and detention; mass amnesties; legaliz…
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Mexico has a gdp a bit larger than Florida, the 4th largest state by gdp. Adding Mexico would add less than 7% to our gdp. The power of the us + Mexico would be very similar to just the US.
From a national security perspective, wealth is important but so is population size. If you have both, you win. Industrial production is a third factor in national security, related to wealth and population size, and Mexico can help with that. At the moment, Brazil is a non-player but in a hundred years that could change given their population size and you could have a potential Brazil-US rivalry. An integration with…
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In English, singular "America" normally refers to the United States of America, not the entire western hemisphere.
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Calling the US "America" is no more "abnormal" than calling Americans norteamericanos (Even setting aside Mexico also being part of North America, what about Canadians?) or estadounidenses (given Mexico also being the "United Mexican States").
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Very dubious list. Russia and Brazil in the top ten? Highly unlikely. I wouldn’t trust any of these projections in the slightest.
Are you aware that brazil is the 9th largest economy in the world? Slightly above canada https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(no...
~ https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
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Very dubious list. Russia and Brazil in the top ten? Highly unlikely. I wouldn’t trust any of these projections in the slightest.
Brazil? It’s a massive economy. Do you get your news from memes?
~ https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
~ https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
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Very dubious list. Russia and Brazil in the top ten? Highly unlikely. I wouldn’t trust any of these projections in the slightest.
Brazil has been the biggest economy in Latin America for decades, what cave have you been living in?
~ https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
~ https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...