or the Trent affair, when the USA seized CSA ambassadors from a UK ship
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Replying to @arthur_affect @smoothkobra
that could've blown up if public opinion went the wrong way
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Harry Turtledove wrote an alternate history where the UK and France help the CSA win the war
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and as a result the USA allies with their enemy, Prussia
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and in this version of WWI the USA is on Germany's side and the CSA on the Allies'
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @smoothkobra
yeah in our history the USA is on the Allies side bc they're one of the wealthy successful nations
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in this history the USA becomes one of the countries with a chip on their shoulder
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both countries end up worse, the CSA still has slavery and is quasi feudal and the USA ends up going semi fascist
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people worried abt that IRL - when Lincoln was shot ppl thought Secretary of War Stanton was gonna declare himself dictator
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if the conspiracy had taken out both VP Johnson and Secretary of State Seward that might've actually happened
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Replying to @arthur_affect @smoothkobra
which ironically would've made things way way worse for the South
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