{"id":99905,"date":"2025-12-26T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99905"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:58:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:58:33","slug":"the-us-mexican-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/12\/26\/the-us-mexican-border\/","title":{"rendered":"The US-Mexican border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An amusing exchange on the social media site formerly known as <em>Twitter<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<p><strong>Ordnance Jay Packard Esq.<\/strong> @OrdnancePackard\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Hey @LineGoesDown, interesting your little map includes the Comancheria, a vast section of that northern green area that Mexico never set foot in because they&#8217;d get their shit pushed in by the Comanche.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It was only after the Mexican-American war that the United States put a stop to the Comanche using Mexico like an ATM.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jorge-on-X-2025-06-07.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jorge-on-X-2025-06-07.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"641\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jorge-on-X-2025-06-07.png 598w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jorge-on-X-2025-06-07-480x515.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jorge-on-X-2025-06-07-140x150.png 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually even funnier than that.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>reason<\/em> Mexicans kept getting their shit pushed in by the Comancheria was gun control.<\/p>\n<p>No, seriously. It was Spanish colonial policy to keep the population disarmed and rely entirely on deployment of the military to keep order and prevent Indian incursions. Mexico inherited this.<\/p>\n<p>This was impossible. The land was vast. State capacity and the military were overstretched. The Comanches were too mobile. Result: misery and massacre.<\/p>\n<p>Americans, inheriting the British colonial policy of everybody bring your own guns and form militias, didn&#8217;t suffer as badly. Raiders more often went where the soft targets were, and that meant the disarmed ones in the Mexican zone.<\/p>\n<p>This is also why Alta California was so sparsely settled that Spanish and Mexican control over it was at best nominal. Anglo settlers were culturally and politically much better equipped to hold the territory, making the Mexican session eventually inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>ESR, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/esrtweet\/status\/2004186608619139077\" target=\"_blank\">The social media site formerly known as <em>Twitter<\/em><\/a>, 2025-12-25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Update, 28 December<\/strong>: Welcome, <em>Instapundit<\/em> readers! Have a look around at some of my other posts you may find of interest. I send out a daily summary of posts here through my <em>Substack<\/em> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@nicholasrusson\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/substack.com\/@nicholasrusson<\/a> that you can subscribe to if you&#8217;d like to be informed of new posts in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amusing exchange on the social media site formerly known as Twitter: Ordnance Jay Packard Esq. @OrdnancePackard Hey @LineGoesDown, interesting your little map includes the Comancheria, a vast section of that northern green area that Mexico never set foot in because they&#8217;d get their shit pushed in by the Comanche. 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