That is interesting. I'm not sure though as it was Taylor who wanted to just compromise/hold the sections/didn't really push for slavery's expansion. It's not clear to me that he was planning to stop Texas by force, or that Texas really had an ability to control the parts of NM that became…NM/Colorado etc.BQ78 said:
Here is an interesting counterfactual, if Zachry Taylor doesn't die in the summer of 1850 the Civil War kicks off that year. Texas would have started it by forcibly defending its claims to New Mexico. Taylor was planning to stop it by force personally when he died. Plus, Texas had pledged support from South Carolina and Mississippi.
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As president, Taylor kept his distance from Congress and his Cabinet, even though partisan tensions threatened to divide the Union. Debate over the status of slavery in the Mexican Cession dominated the national political agenda and led to threats of secession from Southerners. Despite being a Southerner and a slaveholder himself, Taylor did not push for the expansion of slavery, and sought sectional harmony above all other concerns. To avoid the issue of slavery, he urged settlers in New Mexico and California to bypass the territorial stage and draft constitutions for statehood, setting the stage for the Compromise of 1850.
Arado, Horton and Junkers (going back to the other parts of the thread about large German aircraft/troop transport/bomber options) certainly had an ability to design/produce such aircraft. A tremendous amount of German airlift/paratroops were of course gratuitously killed/expended in the quest for Moscow/Stalingrad, though, certainly a vastly harder target (in the winter) vs. London, militarily.
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