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You didn't answer the question. What did they do after 1936? Were they sending weapons over the border? Was the Suez closed? The British definitely controlled it at that point. There were already a lot of decolonization movements in both Empires and Mussolini isn't going to be toppled over a...

Because the public cared. Not the politicians. And what happened after 1936? Decolonization is a much bigger problem for Britain and France. They'll probably be busy anyways trying to put down rebellions in their vast colonial holdings.

They don't really care. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoare%E2%80%93Laval_Pact

French and British covert support wouldn’t happen in a scenario where colonialism lasts. They were willing to accept it once it was already accomplished. If they’re trying to maintain their colonial Empires, they aren’t going to try and support an anti-colonial movement. The Soviets would, but...

Japan gets nothing from declaring war on Germany in 1941. Their best play is to settle for Manchukuo and declare war on the Germany near the end of the war.

Closed by who? The Egyptians? This is really going to intensify in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

The Low Countries probably or maybe France.

I’m sure he would commit atrocities. I don’t think he’d try to wipe the Ethiopians out entirely.

Mussolini never had any intention of genocide in Ethiopia. I think they’d give it up, because it’s not worth holding. It might not happen under Mussolini. I just can’t see it being viewed as a net benefit to try and hold on to Ethiopia.

This sounds like a bad Idea in a deeply religious country.

My point was that extreme ideologies thrived Post-WW2. There’s no real reason to think that people would try to topple the regimes in Iberia or other parts of the Mediterranean and Balkans whether the Soviet Union exists as America’s rival or not. These regimes collapsed OTL, because fascism was...

Extremist ideas like communism? Franco’s Spain saw significant growth after World War 2. I think that was just their natural trajectory. Italian fascism was Catholic. Being religious doesn’t preclude being fascist. I think we migh separate fascism broadly from the specific variant found in...

They might try to found Israel somewhere else if they can’t establish it in the Levant.

That depends on your definition, but they were part of the same historical trend.

You mean per capita, right? It might be better off actually. Turkey is an industrialized country. Having access to that much oil would also give them much greater bargaining power with the Europeans.