Many years ago I had a great friend who was Mexican and he recognized all of the ‘Reconquista’ bullshit for what it is.
He had a joke.
Two Mexicans are sitting in a bar and getting in their cups.
Pablo says to Jose, “It’s a crime that the Yankees stole half of our country”.
Jose takes another snort and says to his friend, “The worst thing is that they stole the part with all of the good roads and water”.
Useless Mexicans should fix their own shithole of a country before trying to steal the fruits and labors of another.
Draw a line from San Fran to San Antonio and make it look like the rest of Mexico. They should beg us to be the 51st state, but instead they want to destroy 5 of ours. World gone mad.
...which leads to a question: How much of the historic prosperity of the United States of America stems from the development of territories originally inhabited by Mexicans and ripped away from Mexico through an invasion and a war of territorial conquest?Ignoring the inflammatory tone, the answer is "Quite a bit".
The unasked question that must then be raised is "What has Mexico done with the part we didn't 'rip away'"?
The answer to that is essentially "Nothing".
Jose takes another snort and says to his friend, “The worst thing is that they stole the part with all of the good roads and water”.
Worth repeating. Somewhat analogous to the situation in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where the "aggrieved" found to their dismay that the wealth of the country did not create itself.