I was thinking of a Great War around the 1890s-1900s,

I think another idea may be to have many nineteenth-century wars. Looking at it, it’s rather peculiar there were few massive wars between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War. After all, the eighteenth century had so many wars such as the Spanish Succession, the Austrian Succession, the Bavarian Succession, and the Seven Years’ War.
 
I think another idea may be to have many nineteenth-century wars. Looking at it, it’s rather peculiar there were few massive wars between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War. After all, the eighteenth century had so many wars such as the Spanish Succession, the Austrian Succession, the Bavarian Succession, and the Seven Years’ War.

The facts that there was a general agreement among the Great Powers that another series of Napoleonic Wars needed to be avoided in order for their governments not to break under the pressure, the rise of ethnic nationalism and 2nd wave colonialism creating distractions/alternative outlets for excess military capabilities, the Industrial Revolution increasing the value of commerce and uninterrupted trade over mere land control and stock of human labor, and the establishment as undisputed hegemonic power of a nation who's main ambitions weren't continental and had less of a need for a large army or land buffer to protect their core territories (Great Britain) might have had something to do with it. That, and the decline in the importance of dynastic policies.
 
The facts that there was a general agreement among the Great Powers that another series of Napoleonic Wars needed to be avoided in order for their governments not to break under the pressure, the rise of ethnic nationalism and 2nd wave colonialism creating distractions/alternative outlets for excess military capabilities, the Industrial Revolution increasing the value of commerce and uninterrupted trade over mere land control and stock of human labor, and the establishment as undisputed hegemonic power of a nation who's main ambitions weren't continental and had less of a need for a large army or land buffer to protect their core territories (Great Britain) might have had something to do with it. That, and the decline in the importance of dynastic policies.

Thank you, that’s very informative. Many of those reasons are nullified, anyways.
 
Speaking of secession, I'm thinking of cutting on US expansion, possibility cooling some of the tensions. @AcaciaSgt and his Texan Cherokees thread got me thinking, and here is my very rough idea:

The US makes a treaty with the Five Tribes and the Mexican Empire, where the tribes will be moved to Tejas, in exchange for the possibility of being to allowed to form an independent client state out of Tejas.

Could an amendment extending the Missouri Compromise line along with some concessions to the South work?
 
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