AHC: Dutch-American War

This is going to be similar to my Portuguese-American War thread. Your challenge is to find a way to have the United States & Netherlands go to war. As before, It can just be the two of them or part of a larger war, it just needs to have them fight each other. No restrictions on PoD.
 
The problem with an American Dutch war is that the Netherlands never would be so stupid to go to war with America, since the Americans could easily beat the Netherlands, the Netherlands has nothing America wants and the relationship between the Netherlands and America has always been pretty good.

The best way for the Netherlands and the USA to go to war would if both are involved in a bigger war and the only war I can think of is the First world war, if for example the Dutch are stupid enough to join the Germans (unlikely) or if Britain decides to attack the Netherlands (which they were planning at one point, but decided against it).
 
I was looking at a list of territorial disputes(past & present) the other day & found that the island that is now called Miangas was disputed from 1906 to 1928 by the U.S. & Netherlands. Could a "Remember the Maine" like event at least start a brief war over it?
 
You could have a Venezuela crisis boil over, and have the Netherlands (Surinam) on the European side.

Given that the UK would be the primary anti-US power there, the US loses badly there (the USN vs the RN?), but possibly invades Canada in retaliation or something.

The participation of The Netherlands would only be a footnote in the history books, though.
 
You could have a Venezuela crisis boil over, and have the Netherlands (Surinam) on the European side.

Given that the UK would be the primary anti-US power there, the US loses badly there (the USN vs the RN?), but possibly invades Canada in retaliation or something.

The participation of The Netherlands would only be a footnote in the history books, though.

Interesting. I'm not sure why the Netherlands would get involved in the Venezuelan crisis of 1902–03, but what if the Dutch–Venezuelan crisis of 1908 erupted in to full scale war & the U.S. intervened?
 
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