How could Mexico have kept Texas and California without provoking America?
Polk was one provoking
Also Mexico defeated America. Unless you completely occupy and core all territories, America loses.
>>18543831Agree to sell everything north of Rio Grande, except for the Nueces Strip, Gadsden and South California
>>18543831Mexico couldn't have kept Texas and California because Mexico never had them. The Mexican claim to those territories was flimsy, basically a we called it kinda deal, and not backed by custom or force.
>>18543831gem
>>18543831They couldn't. They barely held onto it when they had it and would've sold it or lost it to secessionist revolts going on regardless of whether or not America ever marched west.
>>18543922You lost, Juan. Now tell your family to finish mowing my lawn or ICE will come for them
>>18543922Real life isn't a paradox game.
>You lost, Juan. Now tell your family to finish mowing my lawn or ICE will come for them
>>18543922>Also Mexico defeated America. Unless you completely occupy and core all territories, America loses.Did Mexico occupy and core all the American territories?
>>18544426kek. juanito is angry
>>18543831Californios did not want to be Mexican. They basically collaborated with American settlers during the Bear Flag revolt to get Mexican presence out of the state. Rancheros (land Grant owners) had all the wealth and power in Mexican California, and they simply felt like the United States would do a better job at protecting their land claims and wealth than the Mexican government could. And they were right, after California joined the union, it gave Rancheros access to American insurance agencies with far more substantial holdings and means of protecting their assets. Today, for example, the Dominguez family still owns part of the original Rancho San Pedro land grant, which was one of the first California land grants dating to 1784, and this is even after selling off large sections of it to the State of California in the 60s which was and still is one of the largest land sales in Southern California history
>>18543831Literally every faggot above the Rio Grande was a semen slurper of the GringosAdd to this the constant intervention of the liberals who served as US soft power in destabilizing the country and you can see that the situation was doomedThe only way to assert control wouldve been through sheer military might in breaking the secessionist spirits of the north states something which we attempted poorly atYou would need an outstanding military leadership to be able to competently fight off the Americans
>>18544778Santa Anna tried this, but all that the centralist republic accomplished was pissing off the rest of the country, to the point of several separatist revolts in not just Texas, but also in Rio Grande, Yucatan, Tabasco ect.
No, of course not.
>>18544778New Mexicans cried when the U.S. took over. I wonder if they'd cry or not if the Cartels formally take over?
>>18545783Isn’t it already the way how things work in NM? It is basically an estado with some weird chicos speaking inglés
