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Okay it seems that most can accept France sell the island if there's is a rebellion. The problem seems to be a belief that the USA would need a reason to want to buy it. Is it that the French making it part of the deal with Louisiana to save face along with time, gold, and manpower trying to...

Lots of debate here on whether the French can sell it in the first place. But not much on what the US would do with it if they got it or what Haitian rebels will do here.

Napoleon decided to include Haiti/Hispanola/Saint Dominique into the Louisiana purchase to wash French hands of the place. Only adding a $50,000 increase in cost. The USA was too happy about its main purchase to care. Does this affect history too much down the road and if so how?

Well the issue I see is what kind of butterflies are you willing to unleash? Haiti I'll tell you is going to be a non-starter. Best bet is to curve German investment there by replacing it with American investment. The only problem there is that the USA is not particularly well meaning towards...

Get the CSA to somehow pull off a victory after the march to the sea. Then get the African Americans to convince the tribes in Oklamhoma (Union suppoters and Confederate supporters) to agree to give up their black slaves in exchange for an alliance. That should do it. When the Union troops...

Oh I was. But with today's USA now having a state in the Pacific ( Hawaii with more being possible to come), with the likely possibility of one in the Caribbean(Puerto Rico with more being possible to come) should we have changed the name a while ago?

The thing was Ethiopia wasn't a cannon using nation yet in 1500 but neither were their neighbors in the 1400s. Then in the 1500s the Ottomans started supplying their neighbors with cannons such as in the Conquest of Abyssinia by Imam Ahmad. This led to 2/3 of Ethiopia ending up under Muslim rule...

there is a reason it is called the United States of America even though all nations in the Americas are part of America. It is a claim to rule the whole of the Americas. Of course that is not the whole world but we are not finished on this side of the globe yet.

Maybe if the Portuguese give Ethiopia some cannons and guns from their ship they will be able to avert defeat in the war against Adal. Or if they just start trading guns and cannon to Ethiopia to defeat the muslims powers surounding it. A muslim Ethiopia would have just ended up another...

WW2 then anime so someone found a religion which got it right and did what it said it would. :p

Best bet would be to find a way to butterfly the Conquest Abyssinia by the Adal Kingdom. Prevent further expansion of islam in Somalia and get Ethiopia control over the cinnamon trade with Indian and Indonesian merchants. Then get Ethiopia to expand Christianity along the eastern coast of...

You also have to consider unlike Jews in Europe African Americans had little wealth to support said movement themselves even with government support couldn't afford it. Then there were israel supporters sending funds from all over the world especially from the wealthy USA. Then there was that...

1. Thank you for another example of the US (with the UK involved) imposing a monarchy. So it is a rare occurrence the US is willing to do. 2. It is still not a case of the US turning a republic into a monarchy. 3. This is post WW2 we are for looking pre WW1. 4. Man the US has done a lot of...

I was actually busy with RL issues and couldn't respond. I meant install a new monarchy were there wasn't one before. It seems you missed the point I was trying to make. I was not saying the US would never prop up a monarchy. It has done so plenty of times. In fact it is doing so right...

The ideology was royals would have connections to other royals, marriages, alliances, bloodlines that sort of thing would lead to connecting Europeans to the Americas. The concept was that republics would be their sort of people which would make economic interest of greater importance than...

That would all be true if this was after 1920 but this is pre WW1 America. It was decidingly more aggressive in imposing control over the Americas. It wanted allies but it wanted trading partners and bases. It often did this through interventions and often propped up banana republics but it...

Some of these answers contradict each other because it could blockade Germany and take its place selling weapons to the Mexicans. If it forgave the CSA it wouldn't still be using the Mexican raids against providing aid to the republicans who could offer guarantees against such acts again. The...

Actually what I have a problem with is that the most likely of circumstances here for a political minded group in Germany to do would have been to try and turn one of the two American powers to their side. Mexico is not going to go well for Germany with Monroe Doctrine USA, CSA and British...

No I was hoping the extra gold influx would help pay for keeping the ships rather than cutting cost like OTL. The need would be filled by the Spanish aggression.

Hmm maybe it does choose to annex the Dominican Republic but Spain refuses to simply back down so it has to maintain a strong coastal defense of Hispanola and other islands Spain might threaten. A possible earlier discovery of the gold in Alaska shortly after buying it. Would that be enough?