Sunday, February 04, 2007

Found something interesting on YouTube.

The Mexican military on maneuvers in Northern Mexico, showing a mix of western and Soviet/Russian weapons, all feverishly preparing in the event of an invasion from the north. Now, I realize that such as thing has happened in the past (1840s), but what's the likelihood that it would ever happen again? I mean, that whole Manifest Destiny thing is a bit played out, isn't it?



All countries have plans and maneuvers to train for different contingencies, but did you make out the Generals comment there near the end? He insinuates that they are preparing for a spread out, Iraq style insurgent resistance in case of a US invasion. What the Hell? What exactly do you think they are preparing for? I guess we've shown everyone what our weaknesses are over there. Maybe he was just coming up with an answer to some journalists question concerning the obvious superiority in firepower north of the border. He's gotta come up with something right? Postscript - Looking at it again, I think he's just saying that the Mexican Army has to be prepared for the same sort of fighting we're dealing with in Iraq, I guess.

Thing is, from what we hear, the drug gangs in the north of Mexico are about as well armed as the Mexican army, so maybe they should be preparing for that and stop thinking about re-fighting the battle of Buena Vista. Grab a big hunk of reality hombre. The person who posted the video claims in the blurb that Mexico is about to take possession of new Russian Su-27 fighters. Those will come in handy when they have to bomb the Zapatista rebels again some day, right?

7 comments:

none said...

Maybe they will be invading us.

fuzzbert_1999@yahoo.com said...

Wow, they really want across that river don't they!

NotClauswitz said...

Two guys with jet-airplanes - watch out, it's a Mexican stand-off!! :-)
I think we should send any Jihadis we find to Mexican prisons, by the time they get out Mexico will have, with their corrupt lawyers and law-system, wrangled away ALL the Jihadi-money, and all they will be left to do is sell fake cancer-drugs to Canadians.

Thomas J Wolfenden said...

Being a child of the Cold War imagine my shock and disbelief as a saw a fully armed Mi-24 Hind attack helicopter, marked in Soviet markings, slowly land at the Prescott, Arizona airport right in front of me one day while I was driving to work. He was so close I could see the pilot's face.

Talk about bowels turning fluid. Last time I had ever got even a glimpse of one was see through binoculars a few click's distant over the inner German border. I remember that even Soldier of Fortune magazine had a $1 Million dollar reward for any pilot to defect with one out of Nicaragua.

As for us invading them? Well I think it's the other way around. Hell, when we lived in AZ we used to call it "Northern Occupied Mexico" anyway. It felt like that.

Dick said...

Typical third world tactics.
Bunch em all up together to make it look good for the camera, but instead making themselves that much of a better target of opportunity.
They would be so dead, so fast.

Fools, think they have a clue.

Anonymous said...

Maybe the "invasion from the north" they fear is the 12 million amigos returning to the homeland.

Anonymous said...

If Mexico ever attacks, all we have to do is yank their Social Security checks. There goes their military budget!