Screw the USA post-1900

Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
The post-1900 edition. Screwing the USA pre-1900 is doable, but it becomes exponentially harder and unlikely once the USA becomes a true great power with massive industry and an indivisible identity post-1900. So your challenge is to make the USA the least powerful it can be while drawing the fewest objections from other posters.
 
Maybe pre 1900 have them not doing very well in the Spainish war. After that they keep their heads down and have nothing to do with the outside world. Be nice to Canada and Mexico and have a defence force and nothing more.
I should think most things would be the same until 1917 and then.......
 
Power is a relative thing, the US can have as many nukes, planes and aircraft carriers as OTL but if it`s rivals have more than the relative power of the US is reduced. So scenarios include a tri/multi-polar world maybe after a CP victory in WW1, or if the USSR manages to successfully deploy it`s planned arsenal in Cuba then US relative power is substantially decreased.
 
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