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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
With Bavarian ships raiding American merchant fleets, it would not have taken long for America to sue for peace. As long as Bavaria did not want any territory that belonged to a state, I am sure that the USA would be willing to give it up, though it would intend to eventually reclaim it.
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This sounds like somebody's idiotic plan to win a war in a few months. It'll be fine, the enemy is sure to surrender before they can crush us. It's a moderately common delusion, but it rarely works. After watching the US Civil War, European planners were for mostly aware that they didn't want to provoke the Americans into a long war.
Also, while the US fleet in 1896 is pretty small historically, in this timeline an expansionist European power grabbed stuff nearby a decade ago. There is likely to have been a response. It's also fairly strange Britain has let Bavaria get away with beating everybody like this without there having been a World War already. Given that their national strategy has been preventing anybody from dominating Europe for a couple centuries, you'd think they'd have come in on somebody's side in one of that string of expansion wars.