Would The Us Go To War Over This?

Sizer

<div class="IPBDescription">Just a hypothetical</div> Purely hypothetical scenario: suppose Mexico developed a technological "long-range horizontal drilling" method which allowed it to drain oil from the reserves located under Texas.

Let us further suppose that the US discovers that Texan oil is being stolen by Mexico, and demands that the Mexicans cease and desist immediately, and that the Mexicans ignore this demand repeatedly.

How long would it take for tanks to roll over the border? And would they stop at destroying the horizontal drilling equipment, or would they annex portions of Mexico?

SuperTeflon

Who's president and what's the makup of congress?

Parasite

I cant see this going anywhere, scince it suggests Americans are oil hungry war mongers and that Mexicans are theives. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Stealing is bad Mmmkay, even if you steal stuff thats underground, its still stealing, and stealing is bad, mmmkay...

RyoOhki

If we're going to be talking hypothetical scenarios, they should be feasible. This one is a bit far-fetched, and it would be very difficult to have a dicussion on this topic.

Cronos

As far fetched as it is...

I doubt a war scenario. More likely tensions increasing, stricter border policy and trade sanctions.

In the very very worst case scenario, the US would invent something that made oil obselete <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Nemesis_Zero

I'll have to agree here, this is a rather constructed example. Could make for a good Simpsons episode, though.

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