7th May 2004, 6:28 PM
Mexico also did pretty well against Spain in the 1820s...
Spain (and Austria) are the only two countries with worse military records than Mexico. They were both superpowers once; but neither has won a war in 400+ years, and isolated they couldn't win a war against an army of kittens.
SPEAKING OF AUSTRIA, that plays very well into our discussion here, about immigration. Austria is just what it is today: one small Germanic country. It expanded to encompass more land, and soon it had dozens of minorities: Poles, Slavs, Germans, Greeks, Macedonians, Muslims---all these diverse peoples. They all wanted autonomy, and it tore Austria apart. What will happen in 50 years when California and New Mexico is SO overwhelmingly Spanish that THEY want to secede, like Quebec wants to do now?
Spain (and Austria) are the only two countries with worse military records than Mexico. They were both superpowers once; but neither has won a war in 400+ years, and isolated they couldn't win a war against an army of kittens.
SPEAKING OF AUSTRIA, that plays very well into our discussion here, about immigration. Austria is just what it is today: one small Germanic country. It expanded to encompass more land, and soon it had dozens of minorities: Poles, Slavs, Germans, Greeks, Macedonians, Muslims---all these diverse peoples. They all wanted autonomy, and it tore Austria apart. What will happen in 50 years when California and New Mexico is SO overwhelmingly Spanish that THEY want to secede, like Quebec wants to do now?
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