After Venezuela, are strikes on Mexico likelier?
In many ways Sheinbaum’s situation is the opposite of Maduro’s. The US will act accordingly.
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“Something’s got to be done about Mexico.” Those were the US president’s words on Fox News hours after his government’s strike and abduction of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro.
Fears that the US will attack Mexico militarily are not new. They date from before Donald Trump was re-elected. But the shocking operational success of the Venezuelan strikes have made observers all the more concerned that this has become a real possibility.
The thing is: Mexico is not Venezuela. That is not only a statement of the obvious but also an invitation to truly understand where Mexico lies in the midst of this massive geo-political reconfiguration.
It’s time to look at the political economy of Mexico in this new age of Great Power spheres of influence.
Great Power geo-politics
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