The hypothetical path begins with American intervention over Venezuela and expands into a much wider war. In this scenario, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and contemporary Japanese-American tension could have exposed US fleets and overseas territories, while an American move into Canada might have drawn British and German ground forces south. This is a conditional escalation chain rather than a claim about events that actually occurred. Roosevelt's restraint is contrasted with Castro's poor reading of the strategic situation. Castro's June 1902 seizure of the British ship Queen supplies a concrete provocation beneath the speculative scenario.
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A counterfactual intervention escalates far beyond Venezuela
A counterfactual examines how American intervention might have activated alliances, threatened overseas possessions, and widened the crisis onto land.