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I'm once again reading Estonianzulu's excellent Victoria AAR, "The Footsteps of Illustrious Men", a record of his game where he's playing as the U.S. So far, the former Populist president just pulled a Teddy Roosevelt and jumped ship to unite the fractured Democrats and Republicans, beating Tom Watson and regaining control of the White House. Oh, and there's a Spanish-American War where France is involved.

Because it is based on the happenings from a game, after all, there's bound to be some wacky occurrences. In this alt-war, the Spanish assaulted Baltimore and burned the city, and the U.S. right now is in the midst of invading Spain itself.

The question is, are either of those two things (the Spaniards attacking the continental U.S. and/or the U.S. attacking mainland Spain) even remotely possible for the Spanish-American War?
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