Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4843137-20140519231050/@comment-9888263-20181226171901

There was a nuclear summer. The nuclear winter never happened, to the relief of many.

They have made recon missions to the area, but Mexico had no time to invade. The years after Doomsday meant death of trade and instability, which was followed up by a huge earthquake in Mexico City and then a big Vietnam-like conflict in Yucatán.

Besides that, the areas by the border had many nukes go off there, with cities like San Diego, El Paso, Tuscon and Laredo in the US affecting northern Mexican border cities. So Mexico technically was affected by nuclear blasts, even if they weren't targetted. They had internal refugees as well as US refugees. Plus places like Texas and California, which would be worth conquering, had been blasted to hell.