The United States-Mexican War (Fallout) 

War with China isn't unlikely either. Nor once resources that we can't replenish run out leading to brutal conflicts across the globe. The most unrealistic part are the Robots and Aliens in the Pre-War, Mutants and Ghouls in the Post War as radiation will just kill people not transform them into something else.

You should play Deus Ex. The original one from 2000. A completely ridiculous story of an alternate history US where the WTC was destroyed by terrorists, China has risen to the level of global financial superpower, the US has a sizable debt owed to china, the American president is a mouthpiece puppet for a foreign nation trying to control its rival, a substantial number of American citizens have taken to outright armed conflict in the belief that they are fighting the second American revolution, and several million people are dead and dying from a new plague sweeping across the globe. That sorta thing could never happen for real right?

Take heart, it wouldn't be an extinction event in reality any more than it was in Fallout. Not the most individually hopeful thing, but humanity would persist.

Not so fun fact one of the original designers was on a call with someone from Russia and he heard loud popping in the background when he asked "What is that?" the Russian responded by saying "Oh that's the mafia driving around shooting their guns in the air." That moment cemented the idea that China was going to be the main enemy of the US not Russia in Fallout

Perhaps Fallout is just what happens in the future, but the game devs couldn’t say anything so they made a game based off it to try to warn us.

@@Yuro_X its… a joke dude.

I think they were already present due to mainland US problems, where any medium/big scaled protests were handled by force. Though they probably were upgraded thanks to feedback in both Mexico and Canada.

I mean in fallout 1, the first thing we see is a guy in power armour executing a Canadian partisan so clearly they were occupying Canada with power armour.

There were riot caused by food shortages. Nothing turns people into animals faster than not having food

​@@mappingshaman5280weren't those vault dwellers though?

​​​​@@rance2799are you thinking about the fallout 2 intro video where the vault dwellers are gunned down by an enclave soldier while leaving their vault? The fallout 1 intro has a card clearly stating "our boys putting down unrest in occupied canada" before showing a guy in power armor shooting a guy on his knees.

"I was high when I said that"

@@glamrockbonnie5983 *I was completely sober but okay

@@Dank-gb6jn it's talladega nights that's what Bobby's dad said

Almost like our own, isn’t it

like the US in 2024 threatening with Nuclear Fire......yeah "Fiction"

If only the series had a motto about that...

"WHAT IF!? Everyone Was An Idiot" HaHa. Every single politician is an idiot.

We're living in Fallout minus the cool technology

There was one in Developement, but it went no where

Yeah there is ....its called old world blues....its post war not pre war so....pretty fun and they are adding the south east coast but it's started with the NCR VS LEGION conflict but that hasn't stop me from sending in the tribes to steal their land

@@stonemanofgardnerville1162 Yup, I know about that one, enjoyed doing some playthroughs. Can highly recommend. The concept is entirely different from what a pre-war mod would be though

@@Selterboy well yeah that would conceptually different but tbh their would be like max 10 focuses while most would be puppets or generic focuses......same as the 1984 mod

@@Selterboy just play modern day

This one makes sense though in a scenario where Canada becomes such a uncooperative ally (look at Canadian sabotages of American troop movements and pipelines prior to Canada annexation) and for Mexico as long as it stays in a similar state to our world then it is fairly easy to see such a shift in friendshisp

It's less risky to be a superpower betraying an ally than to be a superpower fighting another superpower

Because... that's how some of the history has come about to be. Not on allies but they have staged various coups, funded wars(like the banana war) and made up wars (Like the Iraq war, it was all made up, but real innocent people died, Iraq was never involved in the terrorism attacks they were acused of, and they didn't have WeaponsOfMassDestruction).

Because our current western society is built on cooperation, so a society where the currently allied forces become enemies IS a dystopia to us all

Minus the Aliens and creation of Advanced Robotics (Handy's to Cyborgs to Synths) in a severely resource drained world and later in a Post-Apocalyptic hellhole. Also the fact that radiation creates Ghouls instead of outright killing people every single time.

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America never invaded Mexico, check you facts

Its like poetry

@@waltuhgoodman3427, Mate, Mexican American war, we literally had troops in Mexico city.

Polk pursuit an aggresive action for combat in The Mexican - Texas border, that lead to Mexico's stagnation, but never was no official invasion into Mexico the same way fallout represents. For your information, all the territories gained was bought in The Gadsden Purchase.

@@waltuhgoodman3427 They kinda did though.

Shut up transphobe

Why get it for cheap when you can get it for free, now suit up solider we got some resources to appropriate

@@armondshakir3655I’m game for invading Mexico but it still doesn’t make logistical sense. If “co-owning” other countries by force for free imports were that easy, we’d have done it to everyone with our global reach so it being the case in Fallout feels arbitrary; and even why stop there? Is the “European Commonwealth” just a US colony? It doesn’t seem to be that way in a status-quo universe where international connections were abolished. Does “commonwealth” equate to a top-down autonomous state?

Too bad that franchise is full of corruption, bad prestige, cheaters and developers taking part in allowing cheaters to compete in tournaments and if you say something again'st them you get banned.

Not my personal reaction to an American invasion of Mexico, but each to their own...

The average citizen knows nothing brotherhood and enclave member might some

yes but isnt Petro kind of short for Petrol? be easier to say Petro Chico over Petrol Chico... kind of . lol

just a wild thaught. every time i see a Pretro Chico sign. i say in my head Petrol Chico...

I guess is mostly to make it sound correctly in english... From some parts of the south, their accent makes it sound like that. So, no, it doesn't sound wrong in my opinion. If you stop mid-word to say the O, you are probably doing it wrong.

Pretty sure that's the point.

The one that would show a drought aswell as electricity running out and the power armour and tank and the military council talking

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Fiction

Will be real soon enough...

No it's fiction. As bad as the US government can get it has never gotten as horrible as the Enclave. Not to mention while this could logically occur the invasion of Canada wouldn't, the friendship with the Soviet Union wouldn't, The existence of Robobrains and Ghouls and Supermutants and Synths wouldn't. Parts of the lore are grounded but there's a lot of stuff that is utterly fantastical is overly dramatic for the express reason of critique and having fun. Fallout's answer to "Can't get any worse right?" is a definite Oh Yes it Can and Will Jimmy.

Soon

​@@flamesofchaos13 Had the USSR continued liberalising under Gorbachev I see no reason why the US wouldn't be open to friendlier relations