I need to point out all of this predates the federalist wars where Mexico was openly feuding with various places like Texas. We can't seriously sit and point fingers at the United States for the phenomenon you describe when animosity between colonists (not Americans at the time) and Mexico goes back much further. The Mexican government was fucking around on colonists
who wanted to secede for decades, if you go back far enough any meddling in Mexico's government, for any reason, just looks like turnabout.
Tbf, it would be rather hypocritical to on one hand shit on the Trump admin's/patriotic response to modern day Mexicans-in-America (as there is clearly nothing American about the rioters, I do not think it would be accurate to dub them 'Mexican-Americans') wanting to embark on their Reconquista in large part via demographic replacement in the American Southwest, and on the other also shit on the Mexican authorities of the early 19th century for cracking down on Anglo colonists who tried to use the changing demographics of then-Tejas to affect secession & eventually annexation into the USA. Hell, those early American colonists in Texas even settled there legally with official grants & such from the Mexican government, which surely didn't know or care about what sorts of trouble they could cause down the road any more than the Californian agribusinesses that employed increasing numbers of Mexican workers (legal, illegal, it doesn't really matter in the long run does it, any more than it did for those Anglo-American colonists who went on to found Texas) in the 20th century did.
I don't believe they're in the right, but it's difficult to deny that the Mexicans have learned well re: the power of demographic replacement and increasingly hardening colonization in preparation for secession/annexation of a region they want from the Americans, as much as the Chinese have learned how to use drug trafficking to ruin their enemies from the Brits and are now putting those lessons to use via the fent crisis.
I beg to differ. Firstly Wilson was the sole reason Huerta came to power.
You're thinking of the wrong Wilson.
Henry Lane Wilson, who was Taft's ambassador to Mexico, did have a hand in the Huertista coup against the feckless liberal president Madero.
Woodrow Wilson was rabidly hostile to Huerta, refusing to recognize his presidency from day one & imposing a de facto blockade to stop him from importing weapons from outside powers like Germany, and autistically fixated on toppling him in the hopes of installing a friendly liberal-democratic regime in Mexico City (which was impossible, since basically all of the protagonists of the Mexican Revolution had seen how that failed under Madero even before Huerta ousted him, and consequently had no interest in such an outcome).
But even ignoring that, how did Chiang Kai Shek's authoritarian militaristic policies work in China?
Well it probably would've worked out a lot better than the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, if only Truman and Marshall hadn't held Chiang back at a critical moment in the Chinese Civil War and bought Mao valuable time to rearm & reorganize his forces right after WW2.
The PRI was realistically the best Mexico was ever going to get. At least until the 80s they did as good a job as anyone could have in protecting Mexicans from the excesses of neoliberalism. It took a LOT of balls to nationalize Mexican oil. And I know this kind of thing is not popular in America for ideological reasons but when you consider WHY Cardenas did this (Yankee oil companies were demanding to drill in Mexico without respecting labour laws and arrangements) you can't help but respect the choice. The PRI turned Mexico into one massive Hacienda, with the politicians as the Hacenderos. Why do you think they were washed away?
The PRI also laid down the roots for modern cartel intersection with the Mexican government at all levels via their massive corruption (with their state resource monopoly playing a huge role in creating opportunities for such corruption, even without overt American corporate influence), intersections which started cropping up like so many poisonous mushrooms in the '80s to '90s
before they fell from power. I think an argument can also be made that their buckbreaking of the Mexican Catholic Church under Calles also hollowed out the spirit of the Mexican people, so to speak, and created a void that was easy for cartel-influenced death worship/reskinned Aztec traditions (Santa Muerte et al., which notably didn't become a big thing until recent decades and would've been unheard of in 19th-early 20th century Mexico) to fill in.
To avoid going down the route of intense alt-history sperging, I'll leave it at this: PRI rule had some upsides, but I firmly believe Mexico also would've been better off had they never come to power and, in fact, had the Mexican experiment with liberalism (and by extension all its fruits and outgrowths, including 20th-century socialism) been aborted altogether in the late 1850s, which would mean no opportunity for Calles, Cardenas, etc. to ever enter the pages of history in the first place.
Anyhow, that disagreement aside, your sentiment reminds me a lot about how the Russians speak about the Arabs. It is common knowledge that people like Putin believe that monarchies and authoritarian regimes are the only good fit for Arab culture.
I'm in agreement with that sentiment and I believe Trump is also, given his speech during the recent Middle Eastern trip which basically conceded the same point. I've witnessed enough catastrophically failed neocon/neolib 'nation building' adventures in my lifetime to know that Western liberal democracy is just a poor fit for some cultures & peoples, and only retards or snakes with shady ulterior motives (usually related to creating opportunities for themselves to pillage the natural resources in said peoples' lands with impunity) would still now insist on squandering ever more blood & dollars on globetrotting trying to force it on nations who have made it abundantly clear that they're not interested in or even capable of handling that system.
