Navarro
Well-known member
The whole idea that the Empire of Mexico could annoy the EUSA is laughable.
Defeat them? No. Be a real bitch to conquer and occupy right now, esp. when fighting an actual near-peer opponent? Yes. The TEM populace (and this is the main mass of the people, not just the elites) hate Americans. Americans conquered half of their country and humiliated them in the mid-19th century, then humiliated them in the early 20th century, then conquered and humiliated them again in the mid 21st century, setting up a puppet regime whose existence got them nuked.
This just opens up either another ally you need to protect or a way to bypass a lot of the rockies and get onto the West Coast.
Have you looked at a map of Mexico? The whole west coast is a narrow coastal plain (as narrow at 8 miles in places) and then a giant tangle of mountains through which there are a grand total of three roads, one of which goes through NCR territory and the other two of which are hilariously out of the way for an attack.
Oh, and swinging round the western Sierra Madre mountains altogether through the gap in Jalisco? It's a detour of 1500 to 2,000 miles to circumvent the Cassandra Line, depending on your starting line, through areas with infrastructure that was out-of-date in the mid-21st century and then got nuked. "Logistical nightmare" is a vast understatement.