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Pogo_Marimo posted...

I don't know why you would even assume WWI would still happen in vaguely the same way. The entire political nature of the Western Hemisphere is flipped on its head as the Monroe doctrine is explicitly undermined by the existence of a signficant military power in contention with the U.S. Sudddnly South America might be a half century long battlefield instead where colonial conflicts breed alliances and greivances over decades of warfare and political conflict. It's a fairly blatantly sophmoric exercise to apply such deterministic concepts to what is a staggering reversal of geopolitics.

Some things were already in motion. Prussia's war with France was just a few years away. Germany forming and surpassing France in power isn't changing due to differences in the US Civil War. I'd expect Europe to still scramble over Africa like they did in real life and I don't see any serious attempts at recolonizing the Americas happening.

The European country with the most potential changes is Spain though. If a country did try to recolonize the Americas, this is the one that would try. Though that would cause a lot of issues with the British Empire. Plus who knows if the Spanish American War would even happen.