A brief 🧵on current developments in US-#Mexico relations. Regardless of other diplomatic, political, legal and rule of law considerations, the U-turn regarding former DefSec Cienfuegos underscores two truisms. First, that Mexico is indeed not toothless in the bilateral ...1/4
..relationship and has important tools and pressure points to recur to in order to exert leverage in a very asymmetrical relationship in terms of hard power. The question for #Mexico is when and under what circumstances it chooses to do so; for example, it certainly ...2/4
..decided not to use those "teeth" last year when Trump forced it to adapt onerous #migration and #refugee policies. And second, that despite that wide segments of US and Mexican public opinion blithely ignore this reality, the US decision to reverse course paradoxically ..3/4
..speaks to the huge strategic importance and salience that #Mexico has for the daily security and wellbeing of the US, particularly post 9/11. 4/4
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