AH challenge: Nazi Victory and a continent spanning america

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I don't know about insane, but very difficult to be sure.

Theoretically, if the U.S. gets involved in post-revolutionary Central America, it could (if things break the right way and the U.S. can hold it against foreign challenge and not lose control of it during the ACW) then Central America is a possibility. Mexico's a lot tougher; huge population, very large territory to control under hostile conditions, etc... so Mexico's actually even less likely than Canada.

Canada would require a pair of successful wars plus a massive purchase (Rupert's Land) and again would be theoretically possible.

Thing is, to pull off ANY of the above, the POD would have to be the survival of the Federalists and about 30-40 years of Federalist dominence of congress or the executive branch from the beginning of the federal system under the Constitution.

The Federalists would be the ones to actually invest in the sustained industrialization, infrastructural improvement and development and the construction of a millitary capable of pulling off even SOME of the above, with no guarentees of success in ANY such ventures.

My own TL uses precisely that kind of long Federalist dominance PoD. In addition, Canadian colonies join the ARW from the start. If that happens, in due time the rest of unsettled Canada is fated to fall in the laps of America without too much effort, and winning the War of 1812 becomes much less difficult for America. About Mexico, if US is truly willing to keep all of it after the Mexican War, it can. The main reason why they did not so is that the main instigator of the war, the South, had racist hang-ups about making large numbers of dark-skinned folks, US citizens. Find a butterfly around that, and they can easily keep it. Suppressing the separatist Mexican resistance shall not be more difficult for the US Army than keeping the South during Reconstruction.

and lastly, the thing that doomed them to failure: rather than a purely political ideology that could have seen them form a true power bloc amongst their conquests, in the form of satellite states, they had an ideology that obsessed over "racial purity" and such garbage that denied them potential allies and the abillity to build an army large enough to actually invade, hold and occupy Russia, or at the very least, European Russia.

Well, speaking about Western Europe at least, this is not actually true. Nazis had no real problem seeing and treating fellow-minded Italians, French, Spaniards, not to mention other "Germanic" folk, as second-best true Aryans. They lacked the time and opportunity to forge Italy, Spain, Vichy France, Hungary, etc. into something close to their own efficiency level, and build a huge pan-European fascist army to crush Russia with.

It is however true that their insane prejudices against Slavs and Jews doomed them. It is truly amazing how they could be so stupid as to think they could do to 100 million modern Europeans in a few years, what European colonists had done to 10 million Stone Age Native Americans over three centuries. Only compounded by their stupidity in picking from all suitable main scapegoats (Communists, Poles, homosexuals...) just the one that was peaceful, loyal, rich, productive, had a lot of their best scientists, and an exceedingly influential lobby in the countries whose benevolence they absolutely needed. Waht truly hallmarks Nazi evil is not the body count, or the cold-blooded ruthlessness of the planned, organized atrocities; Communists did all that and worse. It's the gratuitous, self-defeating stupidity of it all.
 
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