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From that point the Pacific War proceeds as it did in our timeline, though more slowly because we have to build up our military industrial base, which has withered during our non-interventionist decades.
Why does war come for the US eventually? Because eventually by the logic of Empire, Japan has to invade the Philippines. And that crosses a line that even non-interventionists cannot allow. The Philippines (at this point) is ours. Take what's ours and we'll fight.
On the downside, Japan continues to have its Pacific ambitions. Whether the US is perceived as a threat to those ambitions depends on whether the US continues the non-interventionist policy it followed by not entering the Great War. If does, no need to bomb Pearl Harbor. War comes eventually though.
Anti-Colonial movements would continue apace, along with the fiscal collapse of unsustainable empires like Austria-Hungery, the Ottoman Empire, etc. It's all about the money, baby.
Without WW2, no meanful Soviet military (which was only enabled by Britain and the US to provide an Eastern Front against Germany). No meanful Soviet military, no Soviet threat, no Cold War.
The key difference is what would have happened in Germany. Without the humiliation of losing vital territory and crushing reparations, Germany becomes an economic powerhouse. Under those global conditions, no depression, no Hitler, no WW2.
In this version of reality France doesn't have the will or the leverage to punish Germany. Both countries and England would be financially and militarily ruined by the longer Great War. Europe would be wrecked by the same political pressures that pre-dated the War.
Thoughts? I have ideas about the social and politel situation resulting from no American involvement in the Great War. I'll follow up with those ideas but I'd rather hear from you. It's a thought experiment, pure speculation. What do you think?
In this scenario the post war boom would have included Germany. Without punitive shocks to its system Germany might not have become radicalized when the Depression hit. The political system might have ridden the Depression out as other European states did. Which means no Hitler.
I've long wondered what might have happened in America hadn't entered WW1. For one thing eventually all the combating states would eventually have had to sue for peace and the resulting treaty to end the war might have treated all combatent states equally -- including Germany.
Reminds me of Ireland in the '80s. When I visited Northern Ireland in 1990 (where my grandparents grew up) I saw British troops patrolling the streets with with machine guns. Walking by them was a small group of little girls in their white Communion dresses on their way to church to be confirmed.
