spanish-german war?

I believe that the Monroe Doctrine also applied to European Countries exchanging colonies with one another.

Always assuming it could be.

The idea of a German-Spanish war ion which the United states thenmm declares war on Germany in the 1880s is comedy gold. Warships of belligerent nations searching the ocean on the off chance they will encounter each other while three great armies stand idle. You would almost have to have a naval battle by appointment, no other way to resolve it.
 
anymore ideas on this?

No Spanish American war? Either no mysterious sinking of the Lusitania or no yellow-journalism in New York about the incident.

The Spanish-American war was one of the pinnacles and impetus of US involvement in foreign wars, with a reaction by some non-Republicans such as Woodrow Wilson of the Democrats prefering to try to stay out of WW1 and wanting an international forum to prevent European wars (the precursor to the UN).

If there is no Spanish-American War, this would impact US politics and may prevent the Republican Party in the early 1900's US from getting so over-confident and fractured as to not allow Woodrow Wilson to win in the first place against a split ticket of Republican/Bull Moose candidates.

This could seriously impact WW1 and US attitudes towards involvement.
 
I have to agree with the notion that the Monroe Doctrine would have been invoked with respect to Cuba. Now, presuming the timing originally mentioned is approximately correct, this sort of implies a war in the late 1880s; i.e., during Benjamin Harrison's tenure (and thus a war while TR was just beginning to enter politics/had returned from the Dakotas). I could see thus TR as a captain in a regiment of volunteers from the New York metropolitan area, or perhaps as a lieutenant in the US Navy. But what boggles my mind is the possiblity of the Human Iceberg (i.e., Harrison) somehow gaining sufficient popularity to win a second term.
 
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