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.
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.
It’s a chess game at this point. We sadly have someone great at somehow running casinos into the ground, but here we are.
If the chess board was made of dice.
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.
