Europe After The Peace Talks

The US began to move carrier Battle Groups into a position to be ready to take action against the Republic of Mexico. The USS Enterprise was moving from the Atlantic toward the Caribbean.

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The United States was making it clear to the Mexican Junta that they had crossed the line. The US was going to attempt to apply pressure that would grow. The US and New Spain military were now on high alert.
Neva Granda announced that it was prepared to join in a blockade of Mexico.
 
US Intelligence finally located a lab that was believed to be working on a biological weapon. The US checked its intelligence and after confirmation that it was correct the US acted and lauched a strike on the facility using
its new Conventional bomb.

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The Explosion rocked the site and set up a cloud that made some people fear that the Americans had struck with a nuclear weapon. It also set off quake vibrations for miles from the site. The US wanted to be certain that the biological lab was totally destroyed.
Upon hearing the word the Junta met and there was a call for a strike back at the US. The Leader of the Junta was very quiet and he allowed the other members to have their say. He was not sure that if he authorized a strike it would not bring about the one thing that they were attempting to forestall ,US Military intervention.
 
Foreign Minister Juan Filippe of Mexico flew to Cuba to attand the Confrence of American States. The Meeting saw the arrival of Foreign Ministers from all of the Countries of the Americas. It was there that the Mexican Foreign Minister met with the Deputy Secretary of state from the US John Forster Dulles IV the Grand newphew of the Former Secretary of State during the Taft Administration. A discussion was held regarding the ending of the threat of war between the two nations. Mexico would agree to the destruction of all biological warheads of the Missiles under the supervision of a pannel of experts from France, Germany, Sweden, Brazil. It would also do the same with Chemical warheads.
 
At a meeting of the National Security Council in Washington the Secretary of Defense was the first to say it, The Mexican's Blinked. It appeared that an agreement was in the works that would defuse the problem with the Junta.
The President wanted some changes to the list of inspectors such as the inclusion of either the Canadians or the British. Such was submitted to the Mexican and a reply was received within hours saying that Mexico could live with the change.
President Michael Reagan then addressed the nation informing them that an agreement had been reached with Mexico and that it appeared that the Crisis was over. The US would maintain a state of Vigilance .
The President's popularity soared and as a result the Republicans did quite well in the fall election.
 
1999 saw tensions in the Americas lowered. Mexico was still run by the Military but it appeared that the threat of war was receding. In fact the Junta was allowing the election s to take place for the Mexican Congress. Supporters of the Junta were expected to prevail. Still the elections did show that those favoring a return to democracy were strong.
 
Currently on page 38, but saddened by the decreasing quality of this TL, how does the US gain so much military dominance that even Germany is buying US equipment? The US did not participate in the great war in Europe against Russia so why would so many European nations cooperate with the US and buy their OTL equipment while if i understand correctly: the US did not participate in WW1, did not Participate in the big war vs Russia in the early 40s, so how could the US incorporate the lessons learned from those wars better than the Nations that fought in it? Why would the Italians allow a USAF presence in their colony, Why would European states go on joint maneuvers with the US when its a distant power with the far more experienced German, British, Austrian and Italian armed forces around?
 
Well its been a long time since I did page 38 but let me try to come up with why the US seems to play a key role in the worlds affairs. The United States by its very location is a key player in the Worlds. economy. In this time line the US did not get involved in the First World War. Never the less it did have military personnel that observed what had happen during the war. In the Far East the US became the armorer of China. Observation of events and a demand for goods has pushed the nation forward. Germany seemed to have had problems developing military technology that would allow it to operate carrier based aviation. The question is would Germany develop the technology to do it and in doing so would it be willing to spend large sums of money or was it more practical to buy it from another nation
The US was drawn into some conflicts do to an involving foreign policy.
The Presidency of Robert Taft would see the involvement of the US in Latin America and the building of the North American Canal.
Germany And the Austrian Federal Empire have played a key role in the development of Europe.
To some extent America became drawn into Europe by its being a power that could tilt the balance one way or another. There were those European Nations that did not want to be dominated by either Germany nor Russia. During the Albanian-Serbian Conflict America was drawn in because Germany failed to take a role in settling the Conflict. NATO became a Shield and the Italians found that they felt more open to dealing with the US than with Fellow Europeans. Britain's relationship with the US was always stronger than with the rest of Europe. Still when the Ultra Nationalist in Russia attack the UKraine it was the US that stood with Germany, Austria and Britain to defend it from attack/ I perhaps should return to Europe and see if I can tell the story of what has been happening there.
 
Germany 1996 The German Government had decided to approve the funding of a joint strike fighter with the French Government. It was part of a move by Germany and France to become less dependent on the United States for Naval fighters and Strike aircraft for their Carriers. The German Navy was also receiving approval for the Construction of it second generation of nuclear attack submarines (SSN)
Germany was once again attempting to play a larger role in both European and world affairs. German's Foreign Minister would after the Mexican Missile Crisis propose a treaty , which would ban the development of Chemical and biological weapons. He would propose that Germany, Britain, the United States, Italy and the Austrian Federal Empire form a special Intelligence and working group so that action could be taken in the earliest stages against countries trying to develop such weapons.
 
Germany was seeming to be moving toward assuming not only leadership in Europe but in the world. German moves toward producing European designed and produced aircraft for its carriers was seen as a move to gain freedom from the US. The action also was seen as the continuation of a policy that first was seen by the creation of Panavia with the Germans, Italian and British as partners. Now Germany was teaming with the French to produce aircraft for both the German and French Carriers.
 
1997 German puts several satellites into orbit using the European lanch site in the tropics. German is now moving to improve its capacity to obtain intelligence without depending upon the other nations.
German and the Austrian Federal Empire reach an arms deal which will see the German made Leopard II become the standard MBT of both Nations.
 
Karl Eduard von Bismarck great grandson of the famous German Chancellor , was selected to be the new German foreign Minister. The 37 year old had severed in the parliament for some time. He was quite knowledgeable and spoke Brazilian dialect of Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.
 
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An announcement was made of a Joint US-European effort to establish a base on the Moon. German had already launched a number of satellites toward the Moon and Mars as part of its ongoing Space program.
The US,Germany, Great Britain, Austrian Federal Empire and Australia were all partners in the project. Eric von Braun grandnewphew of the famous German rocket Scientist was the director of the German Space Program. He held a number of degrees and had served in the Luftwaffe.
 
Well I think that for the time being it has got to that time to say goodbye to this timeline. It has been an experience and I would like to thank those that have offered suggestions, many of which helped to make things better.
 
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