V&S Absolut Spirits this week finally ended the long, bitterly fought Mexican-American War of 1848, as the company officially recognized the borders as demarcated in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Though then-president James Polk attained the surrender of Absolut ally Mexico after the Battle of Chapultepec some time ago, the intervening 160 years was required in cleaning up rogue Swedish forces.

In fact, Absolut engagement with America's centuries-old rival in areas such as Alta California, Nuevo México and Texas has been on the upswing ever since 1879.

Most recently, Absolut has attempted an increase in business activity in Mexico. The recent vicious propaganda campaign launched by the Swedish firm in Mexico, consisting mostly of lots of insidious brightly colored maps (PS: In English!), might just have succeeded in overthrowing unstable governments such as Arnold Schwarzenegger's in California had not vigilant conservative mouthpieces/true American heroes like Michelle Malkin been so vigilant.

Malkin's paranoid hysterionics, perhaps as much as the dozens of American bars who'll no longer carry Absolut product for abstract and racially-suspect reasons, helped advance the cause of Absolut surrender more than any other individual action.

Now that this terrible war is finally over and it is no longer an Absolut world, MPR has one final question: How long will President Polk waffle before finally bestowing Malkin with her well-deserved Medal of Freedom?