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Re: the tariffs. Ah, I see. Well, what they’ll probably do in this case is relax them for food and the like, but agree to rates on non-essential goods (even today there is a lot of support for protectionism in the U.S.). Hilariously, one side effect is going to be more available...

As far as the Philippines go, keep in mind there are a LOT of Filipinos and Americans of Filipino descent in the Western U.S. And given Spain’s track record as a colonial overlord, I expect the most likely outcome would be a war gets postponed but not prevented. Probably with an independent...

The Spanish-American War is kind of like World War I in that it was basically a matter of time before *something* caused tensions to erupt into open war. Heading it off would require a bunch of things to change, and the U.S. as a whole is going to be more concerned with shoring up its...

No, I got that. What I meant was, historically, we had problems with staging out of Hong Kong but Dewey DID pull it off because the Spanish were that fucking incomplete. So it’s very likely they could do it again on their own with knowledge of what pitfalls to avoid. Wouldn’t necessarily be as...

This is turning into a derail, but seriously, stop reading conspiracy theorists and Soviet propagandists and maybe go learn how banking and debt ACTUALLY work. Honestly, this same poor understanding is something that would be rectified by having a bunch of modern day economists come back to...

Agreed. It really depends, but you figure there are going to be people who look at their roles as those of missionaries (in a sense). As far as giving up comforts goes, we aren’t talking a difference between the modern day and the 17th century here…sure the methods are cruder but they’re a lot...

Oh, so much to unpack here… First off: The western states, even the more conservative regions, are still pretty liberal compared to the downtime U.S. as a whole, and while the Bay Area is kind of odd in particular (which was true even back in the 19th century, actually), most of it is still...