Why did America have no problem bullying Mexico, when it was so much larger and more resource rich than Canada?

Why did America have no problem bullying Mexico, when it was so much larger and more resource rich than Canada?

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Because Mexico was just as incompetent back then as it is now

>The Mexican Army emerged from the war of independence (1810–1821) as a weak and divided force. Before the war with the United States, the military faced both internal and foreign challenges. The Spanish still occupied the coastal fortress of San Juan de Ulúa, and Spain did not recognize Mexico's independence, so that the new nation was at risk for invasion. In 1829, the Spanish attempted to reconquer their former colony"

>The military faced insurrections and separatist movements in Tabasco, Yucatán, and Texas. The French blockaded in Veracruz in 1838 to collect debts, a conflict known to history as the Pastry War. Compounding the demands on the Mexican military, there were continuing Indian challenges to power in the northern region.

>On the Mexican side, only 7 of the 19 states that formed the Mexican federation sent soldiers, armament, and money for the war effort, as the young Republic had not yet developed a sense of a unifying, national identity.

>Mexican soldiers were not easily melded into an effective fighting force. Santa Anna said "the leaders of the army did their best to train the rough men who volunteered, but they could do little to inspire them with patriotism for the glorious country they were honored to serve." According to leading conservative politician Lucas Alamán, the "money spent on arming Mexican troops merely enabled them to fight each other and 'give the illusion' that the country possessed an army for its defense."

Basically the army was in bad shape.
More here :
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican–American_War#Preparation_for_war

I don't know if we talk about the same thing though
I don't know a lot about american history

America bullies the shit out of Mexico every 30 years, basically effortlessly.

Santa Anna. Basically a living meme.

because America had to bully someone and they fear us

Because they're nothing without Spain

And what a point to give so much territory to Mexico? Theyy can't do anything good there, plainly like us in russia territory

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at the time of the war, the americans had already been trading with the brits for 70 years, while mexico was still at war with its former metropoli barely 27 years before

Pinches españoles

>pinche
ajjajaja es que esta hecho para la comedia el idioma sudaka

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More important things were happening in Spain

mean to

im pretty sure he does know that not all the resources of the spanish empire went into that war, the point is, they defeated spain so they probably werent that shitty after all

Because being resource rich and being able to exploit those resources are two different things.

I want to see you guys in a real war like we have. I bet you'd do surprisingly well.

You live next door to us, piss us off a bit yet somehow haven't been utterly eradicated.

> they defeated spain
Well you know Spain wasn't at it's best moment then, if they couldn't win to Spain after the whole country being destroyed by the french and british then would mean that they really have a problem.

they're literally sudacas so its still an acomplishment imo

>real war like we have
>Lose to starving rice farmers
>Lose to starving goat farmers
HURR DURR AMERICA
It's fine, you defeated us in the past, it did cost you a lot of men but fair enough, at chapultepec you faced children and teenagers defending their school glory to you
You can't eradicate anyone

Dude, every time they sass us, we destroy their armies, occupy their capital, dissolve their government. Then they beg for us to annex them, but we look at the hordes of squat hashbrown shaped hominids and think "nah we prefer you as a """"separate """" country.

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Ostia jolines tío shavalistico como mola mogollón don pepe y los globos a todo gas con el gilipollas de lobezno

Whites never had problems beating non whites in war.

Their need to win the war, bassically we just were a spain with infinite recurses and oil ,they were do a greath job unlike today the corrupt meztisos.trust me

Well, wasn´t Canada a british colony around the time you started bullying Mexico (the 19th century)? It wouldn´t have been beneficial to ruin relations with the UK just to annex Canada, as the war of 1812 showed.

They were still a British colony in WW2. We also did bully them in the War of 1812 by burning York and doing some other shit before the British regulars were able to stop us.

That Hank Hill ass

>You can't eradicate anyone
A few button presses and your entire country is a glowing green crater.

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And yet Moorlandia is nothing with all of itself; only the feminazis have the real huevos in their peninsula.

Because we weren't organized for shit back then, the north was basically empty and had just a couple of farmers here and there who wouldn't have noticed if you went through their land.

We haven't gone into a real war because we have absolutely no need to do so.

>a few button presses and your entire country is a glowing green crater
and is followed up by the rest of the world turning the US into a glowing green crater.

do you even MAD?

MAD is an outdated crock of shit.

I bet you believe in nuclear winter too.

Mexico was hardly even a country back then. It had about 7 million people versus the 20 million Americans, and it had been independent less than 30 years. The country was ripped apart by nonstop civil wars, and had yet to establish a coherent national identity (that wasn't until after the French occupation).

Most of the Mexican population lived in the Aztec heartland, only about 15,000 persons of European descent lived in the area annexed by the US, most of which was wilderness inhabited by savage Indian tribes. Mexico had no native armaments industry and instead equipped their army with secondhand junk from Europe. The army was mainly illiterate Indian conscripts who could not understand orders given by Spanish speaking officers. During US invasion, Mexico was in a state of near anarchy and several states were attempting to secede.

Had war not happened, it seems likely that American settlers would have overrun California in time since Mexico never had any real political or administrative control over it, or perhaps it would have been seized by one of the European powers.

We made no serious attempt to hold onto our colonies when they revolted. Spain was in ruins from Napoleonic Wars and we had far bigger concerns than trying to keep clay thousands of miles away.

Still didn't recognize their independence for many years. IIRC we didn't recognize Peru's independence until the 1860s.