Absolutely. China was the #1 goal and all the other stuff they did was mostly to service the objective of conquering China. And as OTL showed, the Japanese weren't exactly cautious about declaring war. Not that they'd have to be in this situation: what's Germany really gonna do to help China...
Can this meme that Trotsky was a hero please just die already? I swear, in an alternate timeline people are posting here asking about the bright democratic future Stalin could have brought if that dastardly Trotsky had just been killed... Just because Stalin was a huge cunt and Trotsky was his...
It still sickens me that those Iranian radicals ended thousands of years of stable monarchy for the sake of some misguided goal of plebeian empowerment. The Shāhanshāh was a great man whose guiding hand provided stability and reason to the whims of the masses, tempering their more foolish...
The Americans basically just wanted them to bugger off and let them do everything themselves and decide their own foreign policy towards the Indians and pay no taxes and basically not contribute to anything except local affairs. At that point Britain can either try to force them to integrate...
You insult millions of people for being Nazi sympathizers without sufficient cause and claim to be disgusted by all of them, and then still feel you have the moral high ground when someone berates you for it? Impressive.
What is there to be jealous of?
You can make the East fall, but thinking of a situation where the East falls but the West survives is quite a lot harder. The West was far less rich, powerful and stable. When things are so dire that even the East is trembling, I imagine the West will have been sent to its grave long before.
It's hard after 1900. I think you could get Britain in pretty easily if Friedrich III and Alexander II survive. The far more liberal Friedrich would likely seem much more approachable and friendly to Britain than Wilhelm, and would be much less likely to unnecessarily piss them off. Meanwhile...
I'm not sure. Even when it existed Westerners liked to call it the Empire of the Greeks or whatever. I don't see why we would be kinder to it if it survived longer.
The problem with the concept of equality between peoples in the Empire is that you're effectively asking everyone to kneel before the Indians, as they will be the most numerous group BY FAR. Why would the British want to be ruled by the Indians any more than the Indians wanted to be ruled by them?
Not much would change. Communist France would maintain colonial dictatorial rule justified with the old White Man's Burden rhetoric changed into the Socialist Man's Burden. "We'll hold on to these places until they have been sufficiently developed according to dialectical materialism to join us...