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Take Normandy landings. The Allies had a naval superiority of 1,000:1 (or more) and air superiority of 100:1 over the region ,and they still had to fight a lot to secure the bridgeheads. If Germany achieved such massive superiority over Britain and her Empire, maybe they could invade the...

So be it, but the fact is lower living standards don't equal to more population growth. The fact of middle income countries had their population growing fast between 1950-1970 and the low income countries from 1970 till today it's precisely they saw an improve on living standards, with higher...

That’s actually the opposite: in Brazil, Black population is much smaller that should be as mortality rates were incredibly high during slavery. In the US, on the other hand, Black population grew at a much faster rate and kept a much higher African element than in Brazil.

Yes. They've never intended to declare war against the Allies in the first place. It was the other way round. Once it was clear Belgium is heavily fortified, well guarded by the then thought world's most powerful army (France), allied with world's largest navy (Britain), Germans would be happy...

Germany wouldn't be able to defeat the Allies in this scenario. In fact, they might not even try to invade them and the Sitzkrieg could eventually evolve into a Cold War.

France would probably follow the German steps after WWII: it'd probably accomodate themselves as being a junior partner of a German dominated Europe.

I don't see how an Imperial Federation would translate into turn Dominions into colonies, in the economic sense. For one thing, British free market fervor was the main obstacle to a close economic union with the Dominions. The British cherished their informal economic empire in the US, South...

I agree. If British peoples and politicians understood the Imperial Federation was necessary to preserve their security, it could have emerged. That could happen even after Balfour, but in that case, a very high degree of independence over domestic issues would be retained. In this case, the...

It's expected enthusiasm was much lower in Britain than in the Dominions, as happened in the first wave of Imperial Federation ideas back in the end of 19th century. From Home Islands perspective, they would cede like 25% of their parliament for nothing. They saw themselves as the centre of the...

I think they did, but in an informal "British" way. See Jan Smuts, for example. That worked perfectly well for while, when the British Empire prestige was at the highest. Post WWII, when those ideas became outdated, this system ceased to exist. If it was France, they would be locked into Paris...

At the end of the day, Imperial Federation didn't happen not because of an opposition to the idea, but the lack of interest to change the status quo. Britain seemed perfectly fine ruling the Empire from Westminster, not giving the residents of the Dominions much word on it, while the Dominions...

Those notions of rotating capital seems a bit anacronic to me. As a matter of fact, even today London is the undisputable centre of the non-US anglosphere. Back then, "British" didn't mean people from Home Islands, but for settlers living in the white Dominions as well. London was the centre of...

I don't think that's a problem per se as much as Maryland or Virginia are not more influential to have Washington metro area inside them. British living in Home Islands would be more influential only as for being more numerous than ones living overseas. I have the impression, however, overseas...

I guess a smaller and loose "Imperial Federation", with Britain, Australia and New Zealand, could have worked even till 1950's, maybe not becoming a single state right away, but turning into something like a much closer European Union. The difficult is not the opposition to the idea, but that...

Interestingly, Berlin has lots of Vietnamese immigrants that contributes a lot to its food scene.

A federated, post imperial British Empire, dodging the world wars?

Indeed UN was much more powerful and really obsessed about this subject back in the days. That certainly speeded the decolonization process. Socialism was also fashionable, plus the USSR and US pressure, we have the perfect storm going on. And specifically about Britain, the way they organize...

I guess it's more a matter of Spain wanting it or not. OTL Morocco can't do nothing about Ceuta and Melilla.

If the French hasn't sold Louisiana, then we would have a country there. A very peculiar one, maybe with an English-speaking minority-majority.

Decolonization ended in the 1970's. Once a territory/colony didn't have their independence granted by this time, they wouldn't split anymore. From this time onwards, being a colony proved to be much more advantageous (e.g. French Guiana vs Suriname, Mayotte vs Comoros, St. Vincent and Grenadines...