Brainstorming: Spanish-American War escalates

This could be a fun war. The United States and Spain start a war over Cuba. The US has tacit British support. France supports Spain and declares war on the US. Due to a territorial dispute going on in Africa at the same time, Britain decides to support the US and fight both France and Spain. But it is not a good time for the British, as the Boers in South Africa want their own country, and the Germans see it as the perfect time to weaken British power, and decide to fight them and nab some colonies. Russia, supporting its French ally, also goes after the poor British. Japan jumps in to help Britain, in order to get Russian influence out of Manchuria and Korea. The Ottomans, also wanting Russia dead, decide to help Britain.

(For MORE fun, have Portugal help Britain because of its alliance. Norway-Sweden either declares war on Russia to save Finland or Russia does something retarded to get them involved. Austria-Hungary helps their contenental compatriot, Spain. China wants revenge for its defeat in the Sino-Japanese War and declares war on Japan and its allies. Italy wants territory from Austria-Hungary and France and sides with the US and UK. Greece wants territory from the Ottomans and sides with Spain.)

Side #1
United States
Britain
Japan
Ottoman Empire
(Portugal)
(Norway-Sweden)
(Italy)

Side #2
Spain
Germany
France
Russia
(Austria-Hungary)
(China)
(Greece)

This would be just a colonial war, with little to no real fighting in Europe.
 
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China is certainly not going into column B, either actively or tacitly. Indeed, China is far more likely to pray that France, Germany and Russia are hurt as badly as possible, thus delaying/preventing a partition which seemed increasingly likely at the time.

And France is still desperately scrounging for allies against Germany, attacking the UK AND the US is hardly the way to go about that.
 
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