Has Cleveland and the US Congress been replaced, somehow?
Has Cleveland and the US Congress been replaced, somehow?
Because if not, presumably they are as realistic about the global balance and correlation of forces as they were historically, and, for that matter, as was Salisbury.
http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/gp/17463.htm
Whatever the British gained from a however many square miles of jungle were in dispute hardly seems worth the balance of US-UK trade, mutual investment, and the minor realities of the positive relationship between the US, UK, and Canada (much less the BWI) after the rapprochement of the 1870s.
There's a reason the
Alabama claims were settled, after all.
Best,