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I'm planning a TL at the moment and I need a reality check on something. Through a set of PODs that really take off in the 1830s within the US, the US goes into Mexico and takes a larger chunk of it. Basically everything that would had been US in the long run aka the Gadsden Purchase and Mexican Cession, and OTL Northwest and Northeast Mexico. Yes I know that cuts a shit load of Mexico and makes it American.

But anyhow, the French still go into Mexico after the ACW breaks out under the same thing they did OTL. With out the northern part of Mexico to run, could France get Mexico to the point that Maximilian's rule in Mexico would be stable and fully defeat Republican forces in Mexico?
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