[reactspa]

Exactly. Why should we believe this Yuri guy? He'll say anything to excite the TV show's audience.

Serious questions to anti-Putin Americans: if Mexico developed a cozy relationship with China and Russia, and, as a sovereign nation, decided it wanted to install their nukes on its (Mexico's) land, would America allow it? (This is a serious question, please don't treat it lightly.)

[missedthecue]

Didn't this scenario literally happen in Cuba? It was resolved with diplomacy, not annexation.

[reactspa]

"Diplomacy":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion

[missedthecue]

1. That was an attack by native cubans, not the US military.

2. Well before the Soviets put nukes in Cuba.

[reactspa]

Ah, you are right about "2". Thank you.

"1" is debatable (it was US-backed).

[odessacubbage]

the whole point of the the Monroe doctrine and over a century's worth of misadventures in cuba and latin america is that we haven't and wouldn't.