We couldnāt beat Afghanistan. Do you think we can defeat Mexico? It would be easy according to
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All we need is the will.
Ok, letās talk about this in reality for a change. First, we donāt have enough military to secure the Border. We just donāt. Nearly two thousand miles of border, and much of it is undenied, without walls, or even signs. Why? It is difficult to access. Unless youāre on foot. The terrain is sometimes flat desert, and sometimes rugged as hell mountains. The Border Patrol uses horses for some of it. Itās the 21st century and the best choice for transportation is one from the dawn of recorded time. Horses.
But letās pretend it was possible to send troops to secure the border. How many would it take? Well lets do a little math.
Including the National Guard and Reserve, there are roughly 2.2 million.
That sounds like a lot. Until you realize that a lot of those troops are in the Navy, which isnāt going to be much help. I mean, the carriers arenāt going to be needed and the submarines would be useless.
But what about the rest, surely there are plenty for that. But there really arenāt. We have commitments in Korea, Europe, Asia, and other places in the world. But lets just call all those troops home. We need them to stop this fantasy invasion.
Korea Falls to the North, Asia becomes China, and only Australia and New Zealand remain outside of the new China. Europe falls to Russia in a New York second. But hey, at least our troops are doing what is important. Defending the border.
Only they canāt actually do it. I mean, they physically canāt. There arenāt enough of them. There would be gaps where there were no troops. And the evil Mexicans would be coming across there.
Or we could invade Mexico. Well that shuts off about half of the āAmericanā made cars you are used to buying. But hey, who cares if Ford, GM, and Chrysler all go bankrupt because their Factories were destroyed. We have to stop this invasion man.
Oh Iām sure we could defeat the Mexican Army. And Iām sure we could push all the way to Central America. But then what? We would have to travel in convoys as the Drug Cartels would ambush our smaller units to kill the troops and steal their weapons. It would be Afghanistan all over again, and our troops would be dying from roadside bombs and ambushes all over again. But hey, we would stop the invasion. Except we wouldnāt. The people behind the lines would still be headed north. This time they would be refugees fleeing the fighting.
By even attempting this, we would lose everything in the world.
Iām not surprised that hysterical RW loons are proposing this. Itās idiotic and knee jerk stupidity. Just what one has come to expect.