DBWI: Napoleon Sells New Orleans: Implications for Trans-Atlantic Anglo Relations

You know the story: Jefferson asked to buy New Orleans from France, Napoleon listened to his adviser who was advocating a future French North America, and then the what was then known as the USA proceeded to form a military alliance with the then British Empire which went on to seize New Orleans, the whole of Louisiana, and various other Western Hemisphere French possessions (with most of the profitable islands going to Britain), setting forth a path of good relations and mutual profit that characterized most dealings for a long while after.

The classic national history story they teach in schools across the Oceania Alliance, right? (At least in the Atlantic Federation, that's for sure.)

But what if history threw a monkey wrench in the early days of the formation of Oceania, as there were so many other times to do? What if Napoleon, feeling a bit light in his pocketbook, sold off New Orleans, thus removing the impetus for Anglo-American reconciliation?
 
The US would have still gone westward - maybe create some trouble in Méjico.
That's a joke, right? I mean, until it fell apart at the seams from secession movements (like Texas and California, other members of the Oceania Alliance), Mejico had a pretty large standing army, compared to the US's... not so large one.
 
Yes, Méjico's army was large, but you, like so many others, have forgotten one tiny little aspect that would have made the Méjican army fall apart, as in OTL - that being corruption.
 
Well, can you really blame me? As the heart of the Central States of America trade group, the loose Confederation is a first world nation in its own right. Sometimes it's hard to connect the times.
 
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