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I'm not saying that the US would have ignored the invasion, but they'd have their hands occupied with a war on two fronts to focus a huge military invasion of Mexico. That's practically a war from the East, West and South.
My question about the Zimmerman Telegraph has more to do with Mexican-American relations haha. We whipped Mexico's ass in the Mexican-American War and we could beat them again, but the Mexican-American border and Mexican-Americans themselves would be treated much differently if that occurred.
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And so would Japan. The Japanese army was so occupied with China that it couldn't possibly have launched a substantial invasion of Mexico, let alone the US. If you look at the two sides, there was just no way Japan could have beat America in WWII, in land or air or sea. It's a bigger a mismatch as Germany vs the Soviet Union.
As for Mexico, it would probably be a stronger country than it is today since the US has a tendency to rebuild the countries it conquers then leave, ala Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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What if China decided to conquer all of Africa in the early 1800's instead of closing itself off from everything? It would presumably be the most powerful empire to exist in the modern world, considerign the amount of wealth Africa had generated for the Europeans many years later when they decided to colonize Africa.
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From what I understand, the Chinese government was facing enormous internal resistance and rebellions (see: Opium Wars, Taiping Rebellion) by the late 1700s, so they may not have been able to conquer Africa in the 1800s in the first place. Earlier than that, I dunno. Maybe they didn't have the technology. I also think that the Americas were by far the more valuable colonization target than Africa, so Europe would still be a major world power.