Canada will respond in kind. This is the dumbest fucking path this idiot could have gone down, and people will die.

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    11 days ago

    Pretty rich considering they’re about to start begging Canada for water. Or another reason to annex them

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    Yo, straight up, the Colorado river never sees the ocean. It is probably the most completely managed water source in the world. Any other country would take cutting off their water supply as an act of war, or at least a legendary diplomatic breach, because you’re effectively sentencing people and crops to death. If there’s anything that could actually start anew world war or civil war, water rights is among them. Probably the only thing stopping Mexico from declaring a hot war is, that the capacity of the American government to wage war is absolutely outrageous. Over the last 100 years, the government has basically remade itself to serve that end first, last, and middle to the detriment of all other concerns.

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    Maybe then Mexico implements water desalination. There’s a ton of water and solar irradiation. There must be something they can do to get thru this.

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    Deny water but beg the world for fucking eggs. What a fucking joke this shithole country has become

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    10 days ago

    Might be worth mentioning the water exchanges are part of a treaty between the US and Mexico, and Mexico hasn’t been holding up its end of the deal. If you just read the title you’d think the US is in the wrong…