Mexico counters Trump, suggests calling US 'Mexican America'
Mexico counters Trump, suggests calling US 'Mexican America'
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has shot back at numerous comments from President-elect Donald Trump, after he said the Gulf of Mexico should be renamed the "Gulf of America."
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24046998
Summary
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum mocked Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" by suggesting the U.S. be renamed "Mexican America."
"It sounds nice, doesn’t it?" she said, pointing to a 17th-century map showing California, Texas, and Arizona once belonging to Mexico before the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). She also noted the Gulf of Mexico has had its name since 1607.
Sheinbaum warned new U.S. tariffs would prompt reciprocal measures.
While advocating for cooperation, she emphasized Mexico’s sovereignty and its historical ties with the U.S.
Who's manipulating Trump?
Or, asking the same questions through different words: who's able to manipulate him, and benefits from USA losing all its soft power?
I'm asking this because there's a clear pattern in all this shit: he's taunting every single of USA's long-standing partners. First the EU (Greenland), then the Commonwealth (Canada), now Mexico. In the meantime the shit that Americans whine on the internet is becoming increasingly more relatable, hinting that the situation there is becoming more and more similar to the one here in Latin America.
Unpopular opinion: it's not Putin, it's Musk's buddies the oligarchs.
They're trying to isolate the USA, so when they decide to take over and turn it into a dictatorship, nobody will come to USA's aid.
It's an interesting viewpoint, certainly not improbable. There is a strong connection between Elon, Trump and Putin though. It could be that Elon and Putin made some deal and that they both play Trump. That Elon used Trump is clear to me, Elon is the dominating one there. That leaves us with the Putin/Elon relation.
Let's roll with this hypothesis for a moment and say that Musk, Mellon, Adelson etc. want to instate a dictatorship in USA. In that case isolating USA politically seems like a bad deal, since it would make it harder for them to conduct businesses elsewhere.
If however they are trying to do this, I'd expect an autocoup similar to Hitler in 1934. For that they'd need to solidify Trump's power, and remove the ability of the house of representatives to impeach him - by getting rid of it, or silencing it, or transforming it into meatpuppets.
We all know who. But if anyone does need help connecting the dots: https://ponder.cat/post/1252517.
I thought about Putin, IIRC he's close to Trump. But the hypothesis in the link only makes sense if Putin's goal is USA isolating itself, not the annexation of those territories. Because:
- The odds of USA annexing Canada or Greenland are next to zero. Even Trump being guillotined would be less unlikely.
- If USA actually annexed those places, it would benefit Russia for four years... and that's it. Then Russia would have a bigger problem to deal with, as the presidency of USA changes hands.
But I don't know, I feel like there's some piece missing here.
At the same time, Sheinbaum said she expects to have a good relationship with Trump, saying the incoming US president “has his way of communicating.”
oh yeah, that’ll show him …
It sounds and probably is pointless, but I expect politicians everywhere are completely lost as to how the hell they can communicate with that idiot. And they have little choice in the matter.
Dammit, beat me to the punch!
Trump wants Greenland, Canada, the Panama channel, wants the windmills gone from the North sea and lots and lots of attention. And over half of all Americans voted for that guy.