New York is treated as the economic heartbeat of the United States, and its established trade links retain value even under occupation. Redirecting those networks elsewhere would take time and impose substantial costs, while Germany would have a strong incentive to preserve the captured revenue. A low-grade insurgency and a later American-German war follow after both sides rebuild. Britain then benefits as the two next-largest fleets exhaust one another, extending the consequences of the original conflict through economic geography and third-party strategy.
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New York's economic value and a later rematch
New York's trade infrastructure retains enough economic value to provoke years of naval preparation and another war.