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This day, exactly 100 years ago, the Zimmerman Telegram was published publicly in the United States. Two days later, the Germans admitted it was genuine. This led to much anti-German sentiment in the USA, and was a major factor in the American declaration of war on Germany a month later.
So did the Germans really think this would accomplish anything even if the Americans hadn't found out about it? Why would Mexico agree to this? How would they even muster enough men to cause any notable diversion in US attention whatsoever when the entire Mexican Army of the period was basically non-existent and could get owned by the National Guard?
Was it autism?
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What I have to wonder is: Why was germany so honest? You'd never get that kind of honesty from a major power today.
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>>2441665
Mexico was undergoing its own revolution at the time, and USA was backing the contras. Zimmermann's message was to the revolutionary Government, who already saw themselves at odds with the USA.
It's also worth noting that in the message itself Zimmermann states the ideal situation would be to keep America neutral, but by that stage he considered America entering the war on the side of Britain inevitable, and an alliance with Mexico against USA was the 2nd best outcome.
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>>2443178
Was that Pancho Villas rebellion?
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>>2443212
Yes, around that era. Mexico was more or less in civil war or on the brink of it for pretty much the entire decade of the 1910s.
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