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In Post-1900, there's a thread about how, with a POD post-1900 and pre-2000, all three major North American states should be wanked as much as possible.

So here's what I posted, then deleted because it wasn't in the right forum:

Well...

*Needing to recover its national pride from the thrashing it got in 1846-48 at the hands of the United States, Mexico conquers Central America and later benefits from the trans-Isthmian (sp?) Canal.

*The United States expands further across the Pacific, ultimately even snarfing Taiwan and Okinawa. Japan would be too populated to swallow. Perhaps we get an earlier alliance between the Japanese and the United States instead of the Anglo-Japanese alliance.

*Canadian Greenland.

Here's the bare-bones way of making them consequential: Stronger Mexico leads to Texas staying in the Union, which leads to a shorter Civil War and a less-bloodied United States. Unable to intevene in Latin America as easily, the country finds other outlets for its aggression.

Canadian Greenland can be explained away as the British buying it from the Danes to bolster the empire and Canada in the event of a war with the United States.
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