Today's idle thought
Jun. 16th, 2008 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollThere's a thread on shwi about what might have happened had Alaska remained Russian and if the Great War had happened as it did in OTL. Someone raised the possibility of US and Canadian troops invading Alaska to liberate it fro mthe Reds but using Canadian troops seemed to me to be likely to raise the same Monroe Doctrine objections from the US State Department as the proposed Canadian liberation of Saint Pierre and Miquelon during WWII.
There is a possible (although unlikely) compromise, though. There was an ally that could provide troops for an Alsakan intervention that wouldn't be covered by the Monroe Doctrine, one that took part in the anti-Soviet efforts in Asia. They might even make a suitable candidate to administer an Alaskan Mandate. I speak of course of plucky little Japan, the Allied stalwart in the Pacific theatres of WWI, who were rewarded for their efforts in our timeline with the South Pacific Mandate.
There is a possible (although unlikely) compromise, though. There was an ally that could provide troops for an Alsakan intervention that wouldn't be covered by the Monroe Doctrine, one that took part in the anti-Soviet efforts in Asia. They might even make a suitable candidate to administer an Alaskan Mandate. I speak of course of plucky little Japan, the Allied stalwart in the Pacific theatres of WWI, who were rewarded for their efforts in our timeline with the South Pacific Mandate.
