Serious Topic: USA Purchase Mexico.

[adumbrodeus]

The critique would hold for #5 as such a U.S. move would be seen as an outright imperialist action and would be condemned by the international realm as such. This action would just further add to the idea of America the bully.

As I said certainly it would be harmful to our image. However, you are overstating the issue.

The southern flank remains open only now we have to deal with both west and east coasts of Mexico, a large strip of land. By flank I mean any threats that could conceivably come from the south. Of course, no Latin American country is going to attack us any time soon, but the acquisition of Mexico does not benefit our sphere of influence (The Western Hemisphere)

I think you might want to reread my critique. I specifically explained why this would make our southern flank easier to protect but decreases OVERALL security by giving more coastal area (which is already difficult to protect).

Except for the part of the coast which is part of our southern flank, the coast is distinct from our southern flank.

We're already yankee imperialists in the eyes of most of Latin America. And yeah, we think they're banana republics, but ****ed if it isn't a d**k move to assert ourselves in such as a way as to state to Mexico and THE REST OF THE WORLD "Yeah, we're ****ing rich. We buy your puny *** out."

Cause that's the kind of U.S. I like to see.

Again, which would hurt our image, but nowhere NEAR to the degree a hostile take-over would. Really, it would have less of an impact then the Iraq war, because in the eyes of the world nothing says "imperialist" better then an offensive war.

The point being that you went a bit overboard.

 

[Zook]

This is a horrible idea. I mean, sure we'd gain acess to more oil, but what about the people? What about the few million extra people we would have to feed?

 

[Pure-???]

Well, there's the fact that the US doesn't need any more population because god knows there's already a ton of you. Of course I doubt your economy could take it, much like others have said, and that would have some negative effects on other countries as well, because the US has such a major effect on the planet as a whole.

 

[DARKALONDITE]

Illegal immigrants don't degrade our society anymore than black people do. It's just a stereotypical scapegoat that works because they can't reply to it. Illegal immigrants are the basis of our economy, and to say they aren't beneficial is ignorant and ridiculous. That being said, but making them all legal citizens, our economy would effectively collapse because American businesses thrive on paying less than minimum wage to illegal immigrants who would gladly work for that.

I agree 95%. If we did purchase Mexico it would simplify many of problems but doing so could also cause an economic collapse, just as you stated. We also have to consider that much of it is still undeveloped so...I don't know. Additionally, there are still many areas that speak indigenous languages like Nahuatl exclusively.