p.s. An economic collapse also means the end of a real U.S. military. China could actually stage a benign invasion of the U.S. with the acquiesence of a Lib/Dem/Marxist government “as a gesture of good will towards our unfortunate American friends.” We would be powerless to stop it short of a nuclear war. Sort of like the Nazis “reuniting” adjoining countries with Mother Germany.
What you would see instead would likely be a move by the Usual Suspects (China, Russia, other enemy states) to foment civil war in the U.S. using the Mexicans as catspaws.
They would then bring in a U.N. resolution to break up the U.S. by restraining the U.S. (or trying to) from reestablishing its authority in the Southwest, under the rubric of opposing "ethnic cleansing". They'd:
- Assert the rights of Mexican nationals in the U.S. to live here,
- Assert their right to have a government of their own in places where they have a working plurality or majority (Texas, California, Arizona, N.M.),
- Affirm their right to secede from the United States without U.S. interference or "retaliation" or "race war" or whatever baloney language you like, and
- Assert the U.N.'s obligation to protect (oh so recently and deliberately endorsed in Libya by the Obama Administration) both ethnic Mexicans and illegally immigrated Mexican nationals from evil ugly whiteyes and
- Pass a force resolution through the Security Council authorizing military intervention by interested powers.
Something like that.