• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    How the foxtrot do you accidentally invade Mexico? What they mean is they committed another act of abuse and then said they didn’t mean it

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      Militaries accidentally invade each other all the time.

      Usually, they back right out and let the other country know, they don’t use boats to get around visible border controls and plant a sign in other country though.

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      They also said unauthorized access or photography was not allowed in that area and that ‘if you are found here, you may be detained and searched.’ Mexico’s foreign affairs ministry said its navy removed the signs from the sand, which it believed were on Mexican territory."

      That’s the result they wanted.

      It’s Mexico, clear as day, but Mexico just waffled on it and said they “believed” it was Mexico.

      They’ll take a page out of Israel’s playbook and start saying “until we figure this out, it’s a buffer zone”. Then just keep expanding it and not obstructing Americans from “settling” there, once they’re established, then it’s obviously America because why else would Americans be living there?

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        You might be reading too much into that. The article stated Mexico’s naval personnel removed them as the personnel acted on the information they had. I would highly doubt they were going to go to great lengths to confirm the exact coordinates of the boarder.

        Do I think that’s what the Americans were trying to do? Yes. But Mexico didn’t waffle it.

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    That’s about 20 miles south of the border. And the only reason to approach by boat would be because you couldn’t do it from land, because you’d be stopped.

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      In this day and age of GPS, there’s no excuse for them to be in another FREAKIN COUNTRY. Just complete morons.

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    Bah. I accidentally invaded America during Basic training. The other side of that long swathe of clearing was cooler, so we walked there.

    Wow, did we get in trouble when we all found out we actually invaded.

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      Did you hammer signs into the ground claiming that territory for your country? Had your country recently made military threats against American sovereignty, and had your country’s military recently killed 76 citizens of a country near America in extrajudicial slayings while claiming that they were doing the same things you’re threatening America over?

      It’s hardly a similar situation to that right now. Tensions are high, America is a serious threat.