The pod is simple: Hitler dies from his wounds after being blinded by mustard gas on WW1 and never enters politics, meaning that while there's several far right-wing groups causing troubles they never get to wield any serious power outside of working as a block. So for Germany there's no war as much as there's focus on regrowing the country, paying the debts and maybe renegotiating the military aspects of the Versailles treaty.
The USSR is paradoxically affected in the sense they won't be brutalized by the Nazis but also won't have the chance to expand their influence into Eastern Europe, I could see them containing their army reforms and industrialization programs and if the opportunity comes, invade the Baltics, Finland and Poland (in that order due to territory and strategic advantage they give).
Eastern Europe would be pretty reactionary still with all the fascist movements there who would be too distrustful of everyone, from the Italians, to the Greeks, to Poland, to the USSR and to one another, we might see a war breakout there between the countries as they each attempt to grab by force lands they feel are theirs.
Italy would have a better time overall (no WW2 means they can better hold on into Ethiopia), but would still have difficulties, especially if Mussolini decides to go adventuring in the Balkans again and facing off against Yugoslavs and Greeks who would territory from them(particularly Albania and the areas near Venice)
Britain and France are the big winners because they don't get devastated due to the war and can better recuperate... But they still would have colonial unrest (South Africa, Palestine and India for the Brits, Indochina and Algeria for the French) as well as japanese wanting to expand into Asia, so while no WW2, we might see them having to fight the japanese instead of the Americans in Asia and because there's no Germany making troubles, we could see Britain and France being much more harsher against Italy when they invade Ethiopia, which could possibly trigger a war between them.
Palestine would be a interesting place because no WW2 and Holocaust means no massive flood of Jewish refugees going there, so there's no massive resentment between the two communities only sharp tensions but it has better chances to smooth over.
Asia I could see becoming a major battlefield, Japan would still try to invade China(especially because a USSR who doesn't feel threatened by Germany is one guarding their eastern border much better) and get bogged down in the process but the question is if they would still attempt to invade the colonies of the very much not occupied or devastated Netherlands, France and Britain, I could see the japanese still attempting to do it given their "decisive battle" strategy they liked to use with the Allies having to better coordinate in order to defeat the japanese empire who wouldn't get the complete defeat it went through otl because the allies wouldn't want or could stage a mass invasion of Japan (especially because weakening Japan too much gives room for the USSR to move in and no one wants that).
But what do you think could happen?
The USSR is paradoxically affected in the sense they won't be brutalized by the Nazis but also won't have the chance to expand their influence into Eastern Europe, I could see them containing their army reforms and industrialization programs and if the opportunity comes, invade the Baltics, Finland and Poland (in that order due to territory and strategic advantage they give).
Eastern Europe would be pretty reactionary still with all the fascist movements there who would be too distrustful of everyone, from the Italians, to the Greeks, to Poland, to the USSR and to one another, we might see a war breakout there between the countries as they each attempt to grab by force lands they feel are theirs.
Italy would have a better time overall (no WW2 means they can better hold on into Ethiopia), but would still have difficulties, especially if Mussolini decides to go adventuring in the Balkans again and facing off against Yugoslavs and Greeks who would territory from them(particularly Albania and the areas near Venice)
Britain and France are the big winners because they don't get devastated due to the war and can better recuperate... But they still would have colonial unrest (South Africa, Palestine and India for the Brits, Indochina and Algeria for the French) as well as japanese wanting to expand into Asia, so while no WW2, we might see them having to fight the japanese instead of the Americans in Asia and because there's no Germany making troubles, we could see Britain and France being much more harsher against Italy when they invade Ethiopia, which could possibly trigger a war between them.
Palestine would be a interesting place because no WW2 and Holocaust means no massive flood of Jewish refugees going there, so there's no massive resentment between the two communities only sharp tensions but it has better chances to smooth over.
Asia I could see becoming a major battlefield, Japan would still try to invade China(especially because a USSR who doesn't feel threatened by Germany is one guarding their eastern border much better) and get bogged down in the process but the question is if they would still attempt to invade the colonies of the very much not occupied or devastated Netherlands, France and Britain, I could see the japanese still attempting to do it given their "decisive battle" strategy they liked to use with the Allies having to better coordinate in order to defeat the japanese empire who wouldn't get the complete defeat it went through otl because the allies wouldn't want or could stage a mass invasion of Japan (especially because weakening Japan too much gives room for the USSR to move in and no one wants that).
But what do you think could happen?
