Regarding Crimea & Ukraine: there is an area of deep south Texas,

[Ilsa]

between the border with Mexico at the Rio Grande River, and the Nueces River which is 315 miles long, running from southwest of San Antonio to Corpus Christi. This land used to be disputed; Mexico had claimed the Nueces River was the border. The area is settled with descendants of Mexico and descendants of immigrants from the eastern US. It was/is not uncommon for the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren of the US settlers to be bilingual. Vaqueros and braceros, i.e. immigrants, were common. The early ranches were owned by both US citizens and Mexican citizens, like Eva Longoria's family.

Crimea, from what I have read, is well populated by Russian descendants the way this area of Texas is populated by Mexican descendants. Putin has reclaimed Crimea for its access to the Black Sea, but some like to excuse the takeover saying it is because Crimea has many Russians and russian descendants there, so it should be part of Russia.

What if Mexico decided that the Texas valley, that long parcel of land south of the Nueces, should be part of Mexico? Would trump see any similarities between these two situations?

[virgogal]

1. I doubt that any US president would see similarities

between these two situations?

[Ilsa]

4. Allowing a nearby country to invade due

to ethnic similarities?

[Xipe Totec]

2. The Republic of the Rio Grande

The Republic of the Rio Grande (Spanish: República del Río Grande) was an independent nation that insurgents against the Central Mexican Republic sought to establish in northern Mexico. The Republic of the Rio Grande was just one of a series of independence movements in Mexico under the unitary government dominated by Santa Anna's, including the Republic of Texas, the Republic of Zacatecas, and the Republic of Yucatán. The rebellion lasted from January 17 to November 6, 1840.



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

[Wounded Bear]

3. That parcel was one of the driving issues behind the Mexican-American War...

in the 1840's. Like most of the Southwest, America siezed it from Mexico, then 'negotiated' a price for it by treaty.

The US sent troops into the region, then used it as a base to invade Mexico after the declaration of war.

Manifest Destiny and all that.

[NewJeffCT]

5. Didn't Hitler use that as an excuse

for annexing Austria?

[Ilsa]

6. And Sudetenland, the parts of Czechoslovakia that

were populated by German-speaking people.

[Orsino]

7. Would he see similarities? Not unless Putin told him to. n/t