WI: The ACW lead to a World War?

I think it would be incredibly awesome if the Russian-American relationship began in the Civil war, and just grew stronger and stronger into the 1900s

that is the only semi-credible thing i can gather from these partially overblown sources.
 
In hindsight, not using foresight. I think if any of the Great Powers really thought that WWI would be anywhere is big as it ended up as they would have let Serbia get completely crushed.

Quite possibly. Serbia was simply not worth it.

On the other hand, Nicholas being who he was . . .

In any case, it's hard enough to justify either Russian intervention or British/French intervention in the ACW - both is immensely problematic,
 

Rush Tarquin

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Maybe an earlier Austro-Prussian War with France backing Austria, Russia backing Prussia and an uber-Trent with the UK and France backing the CSA. The two wars happening simultaneously leads to a de facto US-Russia-Prussia vs CSA-France-UK-Mexico.
 
In numerous ways, the US civil war, French expedition to Mexico, Prussian-Danish/Schleschwig war, Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian war might be perceived as a loosely linked 'clade' of conflicts, i.e. the thin edge of a wedge that leads to civil war. By comparison, the 7 Years war would represent a further step along the continuum toward a global wars á la WWII.
As it stood,I'm unsure any of the major powers possessed the requisite force projection capability to wage global war.
 
As it stood,I'm unsure any of the major powers possessed the requisite force projection capability to wage global war.
I don't think that any did: The Royal Navy could have kept anybody else from trying to do so by sea, but then the British army wasn't really strong enough to fight (against civilised opponents) on more than one front at a time.
 
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