From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Oct 07 2005 - 03:13:29 PDT
There would have been a war one way or the other. The
If it was not the Maine it would have been another
Yellow Journalists of the time were pumping up the
atrocities of the Spanish colonial government against
the local populace. This was also during the time of
the Imperialist rush to grab colonies around the world
and the US was looking to expand. Spain was on the
decline and we wanted to increase our sphere of
infulence
reason that the war started.
On the alternative history track, No Span-Am war no
need for Flaglers oversea railroad to Key West to the
ferries to Cuba. No train no diaster during the 1935
hurricane.
Rick
--- "J. L." <milveh@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> So continuing with your thread, if Japan would not
> have invaded the
> Philipines because it was still owned by neutral
> Spain, that means there
> would not have been a threatening US force there to
> intimidate Japan and her
> perceived Japanese Co-prosperity sphere in the
> Pacific!
>
> Then it also stands to reason Japan might have been
> reluctant to enter the
> war in 41, right?
>
> Germany knowing Japan would not go to war as part of
> the AXIS forces may
> then have had second thoughts about world conquest.
> Hitler might have
> settled for the Sudatenlan skirmish and called it
> good enough.
> Chamberlain's peace treated would have been hailed a
> great success and that
> would have meant a peaceful Europe. Russia would
> not have inherited it's
> Eastern block without WWII and of course we know
> that region was to make up
> the WARSAW PACT later and helped create the powerful
> USSR!
>
> Also without a WWII, Israel would not have been
> formed in 1946 (there goes
> the war on Islamo-facists), nor would there have
> been a Cold War that
> followed as Russia would have been absent much of
> it's power base and all
> because we mistook a coal fire the exploded the
> Maine and thought it was a
> sea mine! lol That's great!!
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of bolton8@juno.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 7:30 PM
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> Subject: Re: [MV] Sinking of battleship Maine
>
>
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 milveh@dslextreme.com> writes:
> >
> > Just think, if we had not followed up by declaring
> war there's a good
> chance
> > Spain would still own Cuba, then we would have
> never had a Cuban
> missile
> > crisis and Fidel might be running a pedicab in
> Havana or working Ho's
> on the
> > Esplanade!
> >
>
> Neither would we have had a US presence in
> Guantanamo Bay, nor Camp
> X-ray.
> So where would we now sequester Al Qaida detainee's?
>
> Which also means that Admiral Dewey would not have
> defeated the Spanish
> Fleet at Manila Bay in 1898, leaving the Philippine
> Islands under control
> of Spain. Spain, under Generalissimo Franco, was
> neutral during World
> War II. Which opens the question: Would the
> Japanese Imperial Army have
> invaded territory not only belonging to a neutral
> country, but to a
> personal friend of Hitler? And what would General
> Mac Arthur have
> returned too?
>
> This is something better debated on the Harry
> Turtledove web site.
>
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