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If we're assuming that a President Wood goes for an invasion of Mexico then the important date isn't 1920 but March 1921 as that's the 1st point he has any real power. Coupled with the impact of WWI and the pandemic as well as the paralysis and division resulting from Wilson's ill health and...

That was my point. There were no barriers to German exports to Britain and the bulk of its empire. [I say the bulk because I have read a while back that the goverment of India had introduced tariffs, including against British good but can't remember when that was. The Dominions of course...

Agree but the initial argument was that Mexico would be annexed to the US as an happy set of provinces/states or later as a more friendly and economically larger Philippines like colony/protectorate which would have a big impact on later US actions. I think we all agree this seems to be...

The problem with this scenario is what happens if/when the Mexicans refuse to accept occupation? It doesn't need an outside ally to enable a national resistance, although that is a great help. Your talking about occupying the cities but that leaves the bulk of the country in Mexican control...

Actually the barriers were tariffs and for you to say that Stresemann didn't want to see an expanded Germany - which could only be achieved by force - is you engaging in weird semantics - given the points I quoted. Plus I would think that not being guilty about seeking to annex to Germany a...

Actually of course the US could have left the Philippines in 1898 or shortly afterwards but instead they decided to fight a nasty war to suppress the independence movement. ;) If they had accepted the independence movement they could have had a friendly Philippines markedly earlier and with less...

As Tooze pointed out the purpose of that novel departure was to seek to divide the allies and win over the US to pressuring the ending of reparations. Which of course the allies needed to pay for US debts. In terms of Stresemann's views: Page 4 " In the dreadnought race Stresemann...

Actually I'm reading it at the moment and I see it as more than Hitler and the Nazis were avoidable. He noted however that virtually all the German leaders in the intra-war period not only wanted to overthrow the political result of Versailles but also its geographical one with desire to expand...