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Sometime ago we discussed Christian II of Denmark winning and keeping Denmark and Norway (maybe reconquer Sweden), Christian II was a ally and dependent of the Habsburg and would therefor in all likelyhood not convert to Catholism. Beside that he only produced daughter, so a marriage back into the Habsburg family could easily happen.

In OTL Netherland was dependent on raw materials from the Baltic (mostly timber and grain), but Denmark to some extent controlled the baltic trade by being able to close the Baltic Sea off from external trade.

So if we end up with a Habsburg Denmark (likely the Austrian branch), they would likely cut it off from Dutch trade, while it won't kill the revolution, in long term it means that Netherlands needs another source of timber, and which would increase the value of New Netherland, giving them a better reason to settled and defend the new territories.

Weird idea, or interesting analyse?
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