AHC: America's Puppetmaster

Given the large number of Civil War threads including British involvement I've seen recently, I wanted to propose and idea;

What would it take to have the USA survive as a state, with a POD at any time after it's successful independence from Britain, under the domination of a foreign, preferably European power?

Ameriwankers might tear this to shreds, but keep in mind I never said 'Britain' as America's master, just a European power. IMO it's too often that we see America as the ruler of puppetry in Latin America or much of the post-colonial world, so let's turn the tables. What would it take to make the US of A Europe's bitch?
 
Europe has to stop fighting with itself. Without this none of the European powers would be able to keep the US under control for very long as they would need the resources else where when some new conflict they get themselves into starts up.

That's likely combined with it would turning into something resembling France and Mexico in the 1860's. You can have someone take over the US but it'll just result in whoever took over enemy's showing up and handing out weapons to the US like the US did with Mexico so it could remove France.

So if you can get Europeans to just get along then someone might be able to put in the time and effort to do what you want but if not then don't hold your breath.
 
Very hard, actually. As the Brits found out we're a squabbly lot of gits always wanting our Rights and Independence and freedom to Make Money without having to actually Pay Taxes for the army that Protects Us or the Infastructure to Do So.

We're like high maintenance Divas in that way. ;)

Only France, Spain, Austria, maybe Russia have the potential power to dominate, but having the desire to expend that much capital in a) taking over and b) maintaining that domination is probably not worth the cost.
 
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