If Mexico wanted to join the Warsaw Pact, would America just let that happen? That's a Cold War context, right? There would be no moral or other justification for us to invade Mexico to stop that. If we said Mexico has decided, if there's a referendum, if it's not some kind of dictatorship, you can't use force against them. We're all free nations. And everybody had their own vested interests and proclivities. The idea that what we're going to invade you to stop you doing something you voluntarily want to do is nuts.

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