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Junior Chimp
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« on: August 26, 2020, 12:45:21 PM » |
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French imperialism ceased to be a threat after the US civil war with the failure of Napoleon III's intervention in Mexico.
British imperialism gradually lessened in threat post-civil war until by the end of the 19th century Britain realised it was no longer feasible to maintain naval supremacy against all comers, leading to the Anglo-American rapprochement around 1900 where Britain tacitly accepted that the Americas were to be left to the US navy in exchange for benevolent support elsewhere. I don't know much about domestic US political calculations which went into this but it mostly took shape during the presidency of the heavily Anglophile Theodore Roosevelt.
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