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I don't know if this has ever been discussed before but here it goes.
What would have been the consequences of the boll weevil jumping the pond and making its way to the cotton fields of Egypt at around the beginning of the American Civil War? Would Indian cotton have been sufficient to keep the British textile industry from collapsing? Regardless of the effect in Europe I believe this would have provoked intense paranoia and a diversion of resources in the Confederacy.
I'm not too familiar with the life cycle of the boll weevil or if it even can feed on the type of cotton that was grown in Egypt, so I don't know if this would be possible.