The founding members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949 included the United States of America, Dominion of Canada, and several European countries not under the oppression of communism. The treaty allowed expansion only in Europe. Newfoundland joined Canada five days before Canada joined North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and Britain (Bermuda and more), France (Saint Pierre and Miquelon), and Denmark (Greenland) also joined as founding members. The allies therefore perceived no opportunity for further expansion in North America; the European countries desired an alliance for their common defense against communism and not for activities in other continents except French Algeria.
Mexico did not join in 1949 because it then suffered under the oppression of communism, which began during the revolution of 1910 to 1921 and faded into simple corruption in the 1960s through 1990s. The country was quite poor and had little capacity to project military power against anyone other than its own people, who numbered just 27 million.
Notwithstanding the active Partido de la Revolución Democrática, which still advocates effectively communism yet regularly attracts almost a third of the vote, these conditions no longer exist. Mexico effectively forswore atheistic communism certainly with the election of Vincente Fox Quesada in 2000. Mexico now enjoys the status of a free country, albeit one at war against its own drug cartels and narcoterrorists, and a prosperous one too at least under global standards. The country now contains 124 million persons, and its (naturally ultra-left-wing-controlled) capital and its suburbs embrace more than 20 million.
Because Mexico lies outside the European continent, it cannot join North Atlantic Treaty Organization now. But Mexico is now our friend, albeit not a formal military ally, and the future almost certainly will bring closer cooperation, especially if we successfully defeat our drug addictions and their narcoterrorists.
Spain is a member of NATO. Hispania is/was the center of Hispanics. Spain needs to reach out to Mexico for commonality of culture and hence Mexico (as a country in contact with The Atlantic) should be part of NATO.
You contradicted yourself. Canada isn’t in Europe.
Mexico has never been interested in anything you suggest.
Mexico isn’t our friend, unless you consider invasion and smuggling in as much narcotics and sex slaves into our country as they can to be the actions of a friend.
If you do you’re nuts because those are the actions of a hostile enemy. Our ancestors would be shooting at them by now.
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Mexico is not now, nor have they ever been our “friend”.
A friendly nation does not advocate the reconquest of territory they lost/sold.
A friendly nation doesn’t send their low class, low skilled/educated people north to leech off the taxpayers of a sovereign nation.
A friendly nation doesn’t threaten to “unleash” the drug cartels because a sovereign nation desires to enforce immigration laws.
I could go on and on about this.