AHC: US is op

Uhhhh, Hate to break it to the OP, but. . .

The U.S. IS op!

For a democratic country which managed to get first dibs on a huge continent with enormous resources and an easily swept-aside local population? Not that much for PODs after 1783: it's more that we've been fortunate in the fuckups of the other contestants (China and Russia, Germany and Japan to a lesser extent, and Europe taken as a potentially unified area).

But return to the challenge, there is some potential to a US in the aftermath of a limited nuclear war (Germans? Soviets? Fascist Chinese? Pick your poison) establishing a nuclear monopoly and a loose sort of global rule on the basis of "don't push us too far, or we'll nuke you." Don't even need a pre-1900 POD for that, although you can position your pieces better with an early start.
 
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