Written in NATIONAL on 03/29/2023 11:23 am
The secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, “predicted” that. Mexico will retake the territories that the United States captured in 1848.
“Sooner or later, the countries south of the United States will regain their stolen territories,” the official Twitter account of the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
He also pointed out that it is possible that said country divided into north and south where that last point would move toward Mexico.
Patrushev, one of the men close to President Vladimir Putinaccused that the US has become one of the greatest powers because its economic gains are “based on cynical actions to confiscate territories and resources, exploit peoples and profit from the evils of war in other states,” the State Department published in its Telegram- Account.
He added that the establishment of the Guantánamo base was viewed as a theft of Cuban sovereignty, to give just one example.
What territories were part of Mexico prior to the annexation of Texas in 1848?
Prior to the annexation of Texas to the United States, which ended that country’s invasion of Mexican territory, Mexico owned the territories that are currently the states: California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and parts of Wyoming, Kansas and Oklahoma, according to the Minister of Defense (Sedena).
These territories were obtained from the Americans thanks to the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in February 1848, which emphasized that Mexico would renounce all claims to Texas and where the border on the Rio Grande was established.
Russia claims it has the potential to destroy the United States if its very existence is threatened
As recently as Monday, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council warned that Russia has weapons at its disposal that the United States could destroy if its country’s existence were threatened.
“Ignoring the lessons of history, some in the West are already talking of revenge that will result in a military victory over Russia. We can only say one thing about this (…). Russia possesses unique modern weapons capable of destroying any opponent, including the United States, if their existence is threatened,” Patrushev said in an interview with the official newspaper Rossiskaya Gazeta.
At the same time, he emphasized that “Russia is patient and does not intimidate anyone with its military superiority”. _With information from EFE