In a Donald Trump administration, the U.S. military will be so strong that Mexico won’t dare go to war over the wall Trump wants to build between the two counties.
On MSNBC on Wednesday, journalist Bob Woodward asked Trump, “Would you be willing to go to war to make sure we get the money to pay for this wall?”
“Trust me, Bob, when I rejuvenate our military, Mexico’s not going to be playing with us with war, that I can tell you. Mexico isn’t playing with us with war,” Trump responded Wednesday.
There is a mountain of stupidity here. Let’s start with the fact that there is no need to “rejuvenate” our military. We are still the most powerful military in the world by a huge margin. We account for almost half of all the world’s military spending. And then let’s move on to the absolutely idiotic notion that some boost in our military spending would intimidate Mexico to any degree more than they already would be.
You know what Mexico spent on its military in 2015? $7.4 billion. We spend that much in about four days. Are the Mexicans so intimidated by our vastly more powerful military now that they would agree to pony up the cash to pay for that infamous wall? Of course not. So why on earth would anything change if we decided to spend, say, $100 billion more on it every year? We could destroy Mexico a thousand times over. If two years from now we could destroy them 1100 times, is that really going to change their willingness to pay for the wall? Only a certifiable moron would think so. And only that or a pathological liar would make such a claim. Take your pick on which one Trump is.
And why in the world would Mexico think we would use our military against them? Even in this country, where we lie our way into war all the time, especially against countries full of brown-skinned people, making the case for war against Mexico, one of our closest allies, would be an impossible task. Even Donald Trump couldn’t sell that and almost certainly wouldn’t try. This whole thing is just folly and Trump certainly knows it.
