More accurately, American filibusters (term created later but retroactively applied well describes who they were) instigated an illegal rebellion in Mexico's Tejas. Why? Because the slaver powers in charge of the USA were pissed that Mexico wouldn't sell us Tejas. Yes, we tried but failed to buy it prior to the Texas rebellion. Stir up trouble in Tejas. Convince the Tejanos, the Mexicans, already living there that their government was evil and fuel an independence movement. Of course it worked so well that we did one even better by exploiting the Texas success into instigating a direct war with Mexico unlike the previous proxy war (Teja rebellion) in order to secure Texas with a border further south, California and what would become AZ and NM.
The Founder truly envisioned and hoped for a perpetual Union. That was the plan. They certaily acknowledged the challenges. Where they were naive was not contemplating that foreign agent would be wise enough to fight covert wars by stirring up internal domestic chaos as opposed to fighting us directly in a declared war.... 1812 made the British and the rest of the Europeans realize that a conventional not war against the USA wasn't winnable.
More accurately, American filibusters (term created later but retroactively applied well describes who they were) instigated an illegal rebellion in Mexico's Tejas. Why? Because the slaver powers in charge of the USA were pissed that Mexico wouldn't sell us Tejas. Yes, we tried but failed to buy it prior to the Texas rebellion. Stir up trouble in Tejas. Convince the Tejanos, the Mexicans, already living there that their government was evil and fuel an independence movement. Of course it worked so well that we did one even better by exploiting the Texas success into instigating a direct war with Mexico unlike the previous proxy war (Teja rebellion) in order to secure Texas with a border further south, California and what would become AZ and NM.
The Founder truly envisioned and hoped for a perpetual Union. That was the plan. They certaily acknowledged the challenges. Where they were naive was not contemplating that foreign agent would be wise enough to fight covert wars by stirring up internal domestic chaos as opposed to fighting us directly in a declared war.... 1812 made the British and the rest of the Europeans realize that a conventional not war against the USA wasn't winnable.