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Originally Posted by Apollonian
(And why not Mexico as well? They might try to take back California and the Southwest when they see the US entangled in a world war, since this timeline is built on people making stupid decisions)
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Mexico starts World War I in the middle of a civil war, which in 1914 saw the US imposing a blockade to halt German arms shipments to the Huerta government (sort of makes objecting to a blockade of Germany or Britain problematic doesn't it?), and then invading (sending the marines ashore to capture Veracruz). Though I suppose Germany would gladly betray Huerta in exchange for the US coming in on their side in the Atlantic. And I've mentioned before Mexico matters a lot more to World War I than it looks like, because it was the source of most of the Royal Navy's fuel oil.