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Yes indeed, things have gotten much better on my end! Thanks for asking :) Philippine/Cuba status with a referendum on whether or not to become a formal part of the US, like the ones Puerto Rico has every now and then, does seem like it'd be the easiest way to get Mexico to become part of the...

Well, I suppose this is where I'll have to agree to disagree with you and bow out. I still don't see an extended occupation happening when the Americans already had the resources, motives and opportunity to try doing so historically, but didn't. The oil expropriations didn't really kick into...

To add to all that, the sociopolitical context even within the US itself at the time of the Philippine war and this hypothetical Mexican invasion & occupation is rather different, isn't it? The US of 1898-1901 hadn't fought a large foreign war since 1812, had just easily defeated Spain (whose...

I know, that's why I said his idealism was 'schizophrenic'. Peoples like the Czechs and Armenians may have benefited from his presence at Versailles, but the likes of the Arabs and Chinese sure didn't see a whole lot of his supposed benevolence and commitment to democracy at the same talks, nor...

Didn't the Philippines require a smaller American troop presence than any invasion and occupation of Mexico (even with the goal of installing a pro-US government rather than keeping the place in its entirety) likely would, though? IIRC there were a little over 100,000 US troops involved in the...

Although I'd agree that the US would easily defeat 1910s Mexico if it came to open war between them, I'm skeptical that they would be able to sustain a successful occupation. By 1919 the counter-revolutionary forces had been pretty thoroughly smashed, so all that was left was the more moderate...