[Lurker]

You might want to bring up the fact that the US Government paid the Mexican Government something on the order of 15 million US dollars after the Treaty Of Guadalupe was ratified.

So not only did we beat them in a war, we paid them for the land in cash.

Case closed.

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[Travis McGee]

And part of the "deal" concluded with the treaty was that the victorious American forces would leave Mexico City and the rest of the territory we had taken during the war. That's a pretty good deal for them, we could have just kept it as a subjugated colony.

(Hisotrical fact: Mexico in 1846 had a much larger professional military than the USA. We whipped their a$$es back to their capital with hastily formed and trained volunteers and amateurs. Something they may wish to think about, should push come to shove again.)