WI Mexico joins Axis

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I can personally see it, given that whatever caused such a regime to come to power would probably incline both the Mexican populace and the American Government to ensure such never happens again.
Problem is the US don't want so many Mexicans (of whom many don't want to be part of the US, meaning decades of occupation headache) within their border.
 
Problem is the US don't want so many Mexicans (of whom many don't want to be part of the US, meaning decades of occupation headache) within their border.

My comment was more a joke, as in I'd see the U.S. annex them to prevent this clear insanity on the part of the Mexicans from ever happening again. About the only time I can think of to engineer an American annexation of Mexico plausibly is 1847/1848 and from about the 1980s till the present.
 
Assuming Mexico does stupidly and unrealistically join the Axis against its own interests, and is then defeated and occupied, how much of a diversion of resources would this be from the more important theatres of war? Would Germany and Japan be able to gain any benefit from this, at least in the short term?
 
Doubtful. The US isn’t out for military conquest. Mexico will lose no territory o the US.
I agree, but the US maybe interested in making Mexico smaller. At the time of WWI, both Baja California and the Yucatan Peninsula were not part of Mexico proper in the formal sense. Rather, they were Mexican territories. I could see the US installing a new government in Baja California, then recognizing it as an independent nation.

Yucatan does not have a border with the US, so direct regime change was less likely. Even still, I could see the US encouraging an independence movement. Historically, the Yucatan had an affiliation with Louisiana and the Caribbean.
 
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