Some Stupid

 

Border prospect, McAllen, Texas, via Rio Grande Guardian.

Former Tennessee Congressman Marsha Blackburn (that was my favorite thing about her, that she refused to call herself a congresswoman, like she was afraid that might not be constitutional), now Senator Blackburn,  weighs in on the lessons we can learn from the Ukraine invasion:

Has Mexico captured pieces of Texas and Arizona and set up armed encampments that have been fighting the US army in a civil war for the last eight years? Has Mexico's president been saying for 20 years that the US isn't a real country and we're all really Mexicans?

— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) March 17, 2022

Our border is secure, Marsha, and not just we already have the best equipped military in the world, which Ukraine doesn't, but because Mexico is a REALLY GOOD NEIGHBOR. Which Russia is notably not.

— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) March 17, 2022

I mean, when you think about it, incredibly good, when you consider that Mexico has a history of being chopped up the way Ukraine has been, by the United States, carved and served in the Mexican War from 1846 to 1848 when US forces showed up to defend the right of white men in Tejas to hold and trade slaves, and ended up seizing a third of Mexico's sovereign territory and annexing it to the US, through the "punitive expedition" of 1916-17  which successfully decided the outcome of a revolution inside the country, to the Immigration Act of 1924 making it impossible, for the first time in North American history, for normal people to live in the normal way, traveling between Tijuana and San Diego or El Paso and Ciudad Juarez without let or hindrance, that they had been following since the 16th century. Mexico forgives and forgets.

While Russia is playing with the idea of demanding we give Alaska back. Although we paid for it. That's the only insecure border we have, the maritime boundary in the Bering Sea. Is that clear?