AHC: List possible USA foreign alliances

scholar

Banned
What about a Moroccan-American Alliance?
Doable. Morocco was probably the most pro-US country on the planet for many years, being the first state to recognize their Independence and the first state to sign a treaty with it. Relations between the two states were always good until the partition. If Morocco is a little bit stronger and US interests drift into North Africa and West Africa its probable that a formal alliance would occur rather than a naval arrangement and "friendship" declaration.
 

iddt3

Donor
Outside of the New World, excluding Russia, the most probable U.S. allies are the Sultanate of Morocco, for which the United States has earliest treaty with, and Japan. Its just the U.S. stopped caring about Morocco when the French and Spaniards partitioned it and the Japanese and the Americans didn't see eye to eye, especially once the U.S. said "America is for Americans, Asian Markets and the Pacific Ocean are also for Americans."
So a less racist US that gets heavily involved in the modernization of Morocco and Japan, eventually leading to a full on alliance as a Bastion of American interest in Europe and Africa respectively, the two "wings" of the American Eagle.
 
Doable. Morocco was probably the most pro-US country on the planet for many years, being the first state to recognize their Independence and the first state to sign a treaty with it. Relations between the two states were always good until the partition. If Morocco is a little bit stronger and US interests drift into North Africa and West Africa its probable that a formal alliance would occur rather than a naval arrangement and "friendship" declaration.

But why would the US have sufficient interests in North and West Africa to seek an alliance with Morocco? I don't see any huge drawbacks for the US but I'm also not seeing any substantial reason to do it. The early actions by the US in that region prior to the War of 1812 were most interested in taking out pirates who threatened US sailors, after Tripoli was burned there wasn't much reason for the US to stick around.
 

scholar

Banned
But why would the US have sufficient interests in North and West Africa to seek an alliance with Morocco? I don't see any huge drawbacks for the US but I'm also not seeing any substantial reason to do it. The early actions by the US in that region prior to the War of 1812 were most interested in taking out pirates who threatened US sailors, after Tripoli was burned there wasn't much reason for the US to stick around.
To counteract hostile European powers and to tap some of the wealth that comes from being at the most strategic point in regards the the Mediterranean. Morocco is at the door to the Atlantic, no Mediterranean goods can leave there without passing through that point. If the Suez canal goes as planned then Morocco's importance only increases, being at a major focal point of the lifeblood of the European Empires. If the US is ever hostile to the dominant European naval powers, Morocco is their best friend after other dominant European naval powers.
 
To counteract hostile European powers and to tap some of the wealth that comes from being at the most strategic point in regards the the Mediterranean. Morocco is at the door to the Atlantic, no Mediterranean goods can leave there without passing through that point. If the Suez canal goes as planned then Morocco's importance only increases, being at a major focal point of the lifeblood of the European Empires. If the US is ever hostile to the dominant European naval powers, Morocco is their best friend after other dominant European naval powers.
Me likey were this is going :D
 
If the US did alliagn with Russia and/or Morocco how would other European alliances be effected? Russia likely would been seen as a bigger threat due to it's new resources from the US so it may make other countries that did alliagn in OTL do so.
 
Vladivostok was already a major American center, hell, they have an American street IIRC. Trade doesn't make alliances.

Americans were actively trading all over the Russian Pacific. They were also almost uniformly bad guests who sold sensitive information to the British (Crimean war) and the Japanese (RJW) too.

That said, I don't think an alliance is out of the question, individual people aside.
 
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