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With many threads showing many curious about a possible early break up of the USA, I'd like to see people's thoughts on how this would affect Central America and Mexico; without a strong local nation (the USA) supporting a Monroe Doctrine, would the British have the will to do the same? IOTL it was the British who actually pushed the US to originally have that statement included (Monroe's speech actually was about the US not getting involved in the Greek war of independence from the Ottoman Empire). And if the British are not willing to be active in keeping out re-colonization of the New World, would it be possible that OTL enterprises such as the Belgian colonization of Santo Tomas in Guatemala and Germany's Bismark sending 450 German families in a colonization scheme in Soconusco, Mexico, be more successful and more politically controlled? Germany could use the Klein-Venedig colonization scheme from the 1560s as precedence for having pre-eminent rights to interfere in Venezuela for instance. How far could Europeans get contorl, full conquering and control to the extent of France in Algeria, or more like 1890s-1900s Britain in Kuwait and the Trucial States (modern-day UAE)?
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