2: Mexico is awfully close to New Orleans. What if they decide to attack? The US would lose the ability to trade the goods outside of the Mississippi basin! What do you do? Easy: get a buffer. Send settlers there, then foster a revolution, then annex that area. Texas pic.twitter.com/THpCs93AOF

Why is Mexico so mountainous, and yet so populous?! Why is it poorer than the US? How was that influenced by Spanish colonization? Why is Mexico the way it is today? A thread 🧵 pic.twitter.com/GkllWCMQER