DBWI: Yankee Alaska

If Steward had bought the damn piece of land and if Stonewall had not gone through with his whole 'Marching Through California' Campaign that took most of the West Coast from us.
 

Baskilisk

Banned
Well, for Steward to buy the land from the Russian empire, there'd have to be considerably more funds in Union hands. The US wasn't going to put itself in more debt for some useless lan, no matter how much crab was there, or how cheap it was. But if somehow the USA could afford it, maybe this could prevent the Alaskan Purchase War between the US and CS?
 
Well... what is the motivation for Russia to SELL it?

If the CSA got it, the USA (assuming standing hostilities) would probably flip out a little over having a CSA base north of them (nevermind a Pacific HQ), albeit a small, sparse one.

Russia may want to hold onto it for a bit. They tried in OTL to start a bidding war between UK Canada and USA, but didn't really work. Would it work with CSA and USA?

Why would CSA want it?
 
OOC: This is pretty ASB. The Russians keeping it or the British buying it or the Japanese conquering it from Russia later on are more likely if the US doesn't get it. The CS is not going to be powerful enough to buy it. Add on top of that that the US and Russian Empire were on extremely good terms in this era (and one of the reasons they were willing to sell to the US), and that the CS would therefore not be a friend and its absoultely nuts. It'd be like Churchill selling Mussolini the Isle of Man.

If Steward had bought the damn piece of land and if Stonewall had not gone through with his whole 'Marching Through California' Campaign that took most of the West Coast from us.
OOC: Southern California is a possibility (and a massive stretch at that). All of the west coast is absolutely ASB.

Well, for Steward to buy the land from the Russian empire, there'd have to be considerably more funds in Union hands. The US wasn't going to put itself in more debt for some useless lan, no matter how much crab was there, or how cheap it was. But if somehow the USA could afford it, maybe this could prevent the Alaskan Purchase War between the US and CS?
OOC: How the hell can the CSA buy it if the US can't even afford it? North: Industrial, Massive Population, Wealthy; South: Agrarian, Small Population, Poor outside of the landed aristocracy.
 

Baskilisk

Banned
OOC: They're more willing to spend frugaly; they have a boomin economy thank to cotton exports. Besides, the original premise was a stretch, I just stretched it a little farther.
 
OOC: The southern economy would boom from cotton no more than it already was. They weren't gaining new markets; only keeping the ones they already had.
 

Baskilisk

Banned
OOC: Not true. They now get to sell cotton to the North at inflated prices, plusgain considerably more profit without worrying about tariffs.
 
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