AHC: Russo-American war

With a POD after January 1st, 1800 but before January 1st, 1945 have the US and Russia go to war but it doesn't end in a World War.
 

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a "right-sized" meteor strike vaporizes or depopulates a big chunk of england, northern France and Netherlands withought wrecking global climate between 1815 and 1825. Russia leads a Holy Alliance expeditionary force to help Spain put down Latin American revolts. The US under President Jackson assembles a fleet to oppose the Holy Alliance fleet marshalling in Cuba.
 
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Alright....Fort Ross, in California was a Russian Settlement. In this timeline it become significantly larger, as a result of.... some Russian nobleman deciding to settle there and finance a larger settlement. They get along well with the Mexicans in the area, and don't try and assert independence, but they talk about purchasing the area from time-to-time.

When the Mexican-American War roles around Russia offers to buy the territory for some fair sum with money they have b/c of alternate events occurring in Russia making them wealthier at this time. Anyway, Russia purchases California n. of the 37th Parallel to the northern California border, sometime before the Mex-Amer War ends, or possibly even before it begins. Either way Mexico still losses.

America is less than impressed that they now have a Russia pimple on their new shiny western coast. They can't do much about it at first. Civil War roles around- Russia probably throws support behind the Confederacy. They maybe also support some-kind of independent Deseret.

In this timeline Russia probably did alot better in the Crimea War, so they're less concerned about a counterbalance for Britain. Anyway, the Union still wins (maybe the war is messier). After the Civil War, maybe under President Grant, the US finds a casus belli for war with Russia, and the US wins, showcasing the weakness of Far East Russia.

As a result Russia might reform their far-east, and win the Russo-Japanese war, which might in turn result in the tsar not abdicating in 1917. It get hard to speculate past this point, but any-kind of WWII would be very different, as would any-kind of Cold War.
 
America is less than impressed that they now have a Russia pimple on their new shiny western coast. They can't do much about it at first. Civil War roles around- Russia probably throws support behind the Confederacy. They maybe also support some-kind of independent Deseret.
But...why? In any timeline, Britain's going be way more of a threat to Russia (Central Asia and now North America in this TL) than the US, at least into the 1900s. Weakening the US and antagonizing it is basically handing Britain an ally on a silver platter at a time when US-UK relations weren't so hot.
 
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