What if Mexico Invaded the United States Hello and welcome back to Lifeís Biggest
Questions, Iím Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey.
Since the election of Donald Trump, US-Mexican relations have been rather tense.
The hitherto impotent rallying cry to BUILD THAT WALL is not exactly the diplomatic decision
of the decade.
But what would happen if Mexico decided theyíd had enough, and mounted an attack on the United
States?
Letís explore.
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Now get ready, itís time to ask the question: What if Mexico Invaded the United States?
If you saw our video on ìWhat if Canada Invaded America,î you may have some idea of how this
will go.
That is to say, Mexico would have a bad time.
You can simply look at the military budgets of the two countries to see how easy this
would be for the US.
Mexico has a military budget of roughly 10 billion American dollars, while the US has
68 times that, with a budget of 682 billion dollars.
So really, we could probably stop this video right here, but just for fun letís look at
some of the other factors.
One disadvantage Mexico would have is that their border with the United States is relatively
small, compared to the US/Canada border.
This means that there would be less ground for the Americans to defend, making it even
more difficult to mount an attack on land.
While Canada may have had a small advantage in that they could choose where to attack
from, Mexico would be funneled through a relatively small area, thus likely wouldnít be able
to successfully invade the US by land.
This leaves two options: The air, and the sea.
Unfortunately, they would be massively outmanned in both areas.
In the air, the US has a heavy advantage.
In 2017, the United States had a total aircraft strength of 13,762, compared to Mexicoís
452, roughly 30 times the power in the air.
So it looks like an air attack is out of the question.
But what about the sea?
Surprisingly, this is one of the areas where Mexico is closest to the US in terms of firepower.
In 2017, the US was measured at 415 Naval military Assets, compared to Mexicoís 143.
With less than 3 times the firepower, the US actually isnít as far ahead as they are
in other areas.
But on the other hand, to put it another way, they have almost 3 TIMES the naval assets.
Plus, it should be noted that aircraft can engage in naval warfare as well, which means
the US air superiority would make this an even more one-sided fight.
So, outmanned on land, air, and sea.
What other option is there?
Say it with me: Nuclear weapons.
This is essentially the only way that Mexico could do any real damage to the US.
However, Mexico has historically been in strong opposition of nuclear weapons.
In 1967, Mexico signed the Treaty of Tlatelolco.
My goodness was that difficult for my dumb Canadian tongue to say.
This treaty stated that they would not manufacture nuclear weapons.
More recently, in 2010, the government of Mexico turned over their highly enriched uranium
to the US, in exchange for a less-enriched form that couldnít be used to make weapons.
All this is to say that Mexico would be reluctant to, and likely lacks the resources to, use
nuclear weapons against the United States.
And even if they did, they would be in for a world of hurt.
All this is ignoring one glaring fact that puts this matter completely to bed; if Mexico
attacked the US, they would be breaking so many alliances that the world would come crashing
down on them.
Even if the US didnít deal with them immediately, which they probably could, other allies of
the United States would step in and make sure peace was returned.
An attack on the United States would be suicide, both for the soldiers, and for the country
as a whole.
And now we return to our question: What if Mexico Invaded the United States?
Well, the bottom line is, Mexico would lose.
Badly.
Heavily outmanned in the air, land, and sea, and lacking the nuclear capabilities to be
a threat on that front, Mexico would be throwing rocks at a skyscraper.
And thatís not to mention the fact that NATO would step in and squash any attack pretty
quickly.
On the bright side, an attack from Mexico is roughly as likely as Donald Trump bringing
about world peace; that is to say, it just wonít happen.
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