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I'm reading a good AAR on Victoria right now, and the U.S. just agreed to back Brazil at the expense of Venezuela/Colombia in the late 1800s/early 1900s.

This brought up an interesting idea- what if the U.S. had ever tried to forge loose, unwritten "alliances" with regional powers at the expense of others? Europe's out, I think- the early U.S. was way too isolationist to get too muddled with backing any particular Old World country too much. But what if the U.S. made agreements with any of the particularly stable, powerful nations in Latin American and/or Caribbean in order to maintain its interests? And in this, I don't just mean tinpot regimes- I mean with actual nations. So I'm seeing American-Brazilian joint policing of South America, and I don't know- Costa Rica in Central America? Was the Dominican Republic ever strong enough in the Carib.?
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