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TL-191 ... with butterflies. 45 years have passed since the CSA had won its independence.
The USA after beeing humiliated by a Franco-British intervention started to look for other allies and found them in the Empire of Russia which had a similar experience during the Crimean War.
The succesful french intervention in Mexico would pave the way for further cooperation between France and Austria, both against Prussia and the various Italian states seeking unfication. Thus the German Unification was prevented and a bitter Prussia allied with Russia ...

Tensions in North America would remain high, due to the disputes about the fate of Kentucky and West Virginia, constant intervention in Central America and slaves fleeing to the USA where the constitution had been amended to grant their equality ...

In Europe the Papacy moved to avignon and the quite anti-clerical Roman Republic was declared with the goal of uniting all of Italy, while the Balkan saw the formation of half a dozend nation states with claims against both the Ottoman and Austrian empire, while pan-german uprisings were crushed by joint Franco-Austrian forces in the minor german states ...

The Carribean War which had started by the Confederate invasion of Cuba and nearly escalated after the USA blocked further attacks on Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, but this was eventually averted by yet another British intervention to preserve the balance of power ...

The ties between Russia, the USA and Prussia was formalised in the Triple Alliance, while Britain, France, the CSA and Austria formed the entente coridal ...

In 1908 Roosevelt was elected with William Du Bois as his running mate and started both a military buildup and supported revolutionaries in Mexiko and the CSA ...

Is it a wonder that in 1911 the people didn't ask themselve if a war would come but if it would start in America or in Europe?

They would get their answer when the coronation of Maximilian II of mexico was cut short by a sniper who turned out to be armed and trained in the USA.

Description
TL-191 ... with butterflies. 45 years have passed since the CSA had won its independence.
The USA after beeing humiliated by a Franco-British intervention started to look for other allies and found them in the Empire of Russia which had a similar experience during the Crimean War.
The succesful french intervention in Mexico would pave the way for further cooperation between France and Austria, both against Prussia and the various Italian states seeking unfication. Thus the German Unification was prevented and a bitter Prussia allied with Russia ...

Tensions in North America would remain high, due to the disputes about the fate of Kentucky and West Virginia, constant intervention in Central America and slaves fleeing to the USA where the constitution had been amended to grant their equality ...

In Europe the Papacy moved to avignon and the quite anti-clerical Roman Republic was declared with the goal of uniting all of Italy, while the Balkan saw the formation of half a dozend nation states with claims against both the Ottoman and Austrian empire, while pan-german uprisings were crushed by joint Franco-Austrian forces in the minor german states ...

The Carribean War which had started by the Confederate invasion of Cuba and nearly escalated after the USA blocked further attacks on Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, but this was eventually averted by yet another British intervention to preserve the balance of power ...

The ties between Russia, the USA and Prussia was formalised in the Triple Alliance, while Britain, France, the CSA and Austria formed the entente coridal ...

In 1908 Roosevelt was elected with William Du Bois as his running mate and started both a military buildup and supported revolutionaries in Mexiko and the CSA ...

Is it a wonder that in 1911 the people didn't ask themselve if a war would come but if it would start in America or in Europe?

They would get their answer when the coronation of Maximilian II of mexico was cut short by a sniper who turned out to be armed and trained in the USA.