New Reality Seeds

[PTTG]

Originally Posted by adm

The Zimmerman telegram was WWI not WWII. In WWI Japan was a member of the UK, France, and Russian Alliance, that the US later joined. If Mexico, and Japan attacked the US at this time, the UK, primarily using Canada would have taken part of the US as well. Heck, if this starts before the Russian Revolution, Russia might have moved on Alaska. The President to surrender here would have been Woodrow Wilson.

This is what I get for writing prompts after I take my melatonin.

But reconsidering this, I think that we still want to start the PoD with an accepted Zimmerman telegram. Mexico gets its desired land, and the USA is humiliated and forced to address the possibility of further Mexican expansion. This leads to an eastward contraction and weakening of the US economy, compounding the dust bowl. The USA sees a stronger socialist tilt, while Mexico's already alternate strong military power group embraces cartelism and invites foreign capital.

An already weakened USA is unable to stem the tide of fleeing industrialists heading for warmer southern shores, further advancing the technological might of Mexico...

Japan still takes the pacific northwest all the way up to Canada. Russia solidifies its hold on Alaska. Yeah, this is starting to become still insane but less factually incorrect (I hope).