Constantinople, Manchuria, East Turkestan, Mongolia, menacing Iran or Afghanistan, and a deal on the Sund tolls.
Some kind of Pan-Slavic solidarity mess in the Balkans.
So long as they're not in a position of using significant numbers of African slaves. Then it's a straight road to dehumanization town.
If they get in an enemy-of-my-enemy situation, say against the Ottomans, Portuguese or Dutch, they could instead view them positively.
Have Francis Galton's Chinese Africa proposal become official policy for some British colony in the late 19th century, and postulate it doesn't crash and burn. Crucially, they learn English under British administration and spend a generation "westernizing".
The resulting greater economic...
Gay rights movement negatively impacted. HIV played out just right with the political zeitgeist OTL for maximum boosting.
Herpes gets bigger, since there's no huge safe-sex campaign.
8: entry of Spain into the war requires the death, sidelining, or apprehension of Wilhelm Canaris. He was working for the British, and the Spanish practically telegraphed that he was the reason they didn't join the war.
I'm not seeing... stopping deindustrialization. City governments need to be sitting on higher ones, and sitting on the unions, and sitting on the industries, to stop killing the golden goose. This gutted the Northeast and Midwest, no matter the many other issues present.
The Romans were particularly advanced with hydraulic mining- cored out whole mountains in Spain.
But almost universally, it was put prisoners and slaves in the hole, recieve desired mineral (and dead people). Maybe, maybe the bronze age Cornish didn't do that.
Britain did sort of create the '43 famine. Winning the war was their highest priority. British scorched earth policy in Bengal (the Japanese were Right There) implemented through local intermediaries tipped it into chaos. It only took relatively minor harvest failures to get famine out of that...
Smuggling, robbing their neighbors' peasants, robbing merchants, operating secret mines, bullshit lawsuits that are also simultaneously private wars (HRE thing) etc.
It's the privileges of aristocracy that makes their criminal activities easier.