Interesting , we now know how the ITTL Germans and Soviets would react to OTL. But I wonder how OTL 1930s Germans and Soviets would react to ITTL as well as how OTL 1930s France, USA, Britain and Japan react to OTL and vice versa given that the first three would see that the Entente were actually defeated even with the USA entering the war even though it was technically called a draw , the Central Powers still managed to keep their gains in the east, Alsace Lorraine is still German and the USA suffered immense losses compared to OTL and got the short end of the stick in the Copenhagen treaty. Not to mention Britain losing to a Red Japan in a decisive Naval battle as well as the downward spiral for both anglophone nations and the iron fisted yet effective presidency of Long in ITTL USA. Meanwhile France has undergone a miraculous economic recovery post great war even without Alsace Lorraine and is in an even stronger state militarily and economically compared to OTL.
Meanwhile ITTL Japan had a civil war with the Imperial family and loyalist being overthrown and exiled to Korea and forced to play as a second fiddle to China. That said, the reaction between OTL and ITTL China with one being a bunch of broken warlord states while the other has been unified, made a miraculous recovery and is now currrently one of the Great Powers in Asia.
Well, I actually think the Soviets would be rather put out at what has come of the Soviet Republic ITTL - the sheer scale of unorthodoxy and abandonment of traditional marxist-leninist principles would be very hard for them to swallow. They would also be rather horrified at the failure to properly secure all of Russia and the over-reliance upon the Germans and Zollverein. Not quite sure how they would greet the shift towards Communism in Japan - think we again would see them have major issues with the unorthodox practices there. The general population would, however, probably yearn for the world of ADiJ, it is so much better for the average person than OTL was.
As for the Germans, I actually think the vast majority would view the TTL developments very positively, and it would likely only strengthen their loathing for the OTL post-Great War settlement. Hell, I think even most Nazis would view TTL as preferable to OTL, and for just about every other group in Germany it would definitely look like a better outcome. Just goes to show quite how bad things got for the Germans IOTL.
The French response would definitely be negative - the whole situation is a lot less positive on the surface than IOTL, and the collapse of the Third Republic, ongoing ulcer in Indochina and gradual shift towards Integralism would seem like a rather shocking and negative turn. While the underlying structures might be more stable, and I think French developments are likely to be on a more positive trajectory than IOTL, I think most OTL French would struggle to perceive those benefits for the far more obvious negatives.
For the British the TL has been an unmitigated disaster, and I think that perception would only be strengthened by the post-Great War developments. The Battle of the East China Sea would be viewed with shock and horror, and the constant cycle of crises and growing fissures within the Empire would provoke immense worry. There just is no way of avoiding the fact that TTL has not been particularly kind to the British Empire.
The Americans... I think would actually view it as a rather mixed bag. The delayed and greatly mitigated Depression would seem like some sort of miracle while the stunning rise of the KKK would be viewed with horror. If it is up to the point I left off ITTL, then I think they view President Long exceedingly positively - an alternate, more effective, version of FDR without a lot of the latter's unpopular policies. Now if this were five years later, I think they would be a lot more critical of President Long, but with what we have seen so far, there shouldn't be enough to really provoke worry. I think they would view the situation as the 1920s being more troubled, but that significantly better times were coming down the line. Very hopeful of the future, but kind of depressed about how things had gotten to the point they had.
I honestly think that everyone, on both sides of the political spectrum, would have been utterly shocked and more than a little distressed by how things have played out in Japan. In a lot of ways, I think the sort of destructive civil war fought ITTL would be the worst-case scenario in a lot of people's minds when seeing the situation in the 1930s Japan (not knowing what would come for the Empire of Japan with the Second World War IOTL). I think people would see Red Japan as a scary state both externally and internally - it is kind of the worst nightmare of most OTL Japanese elites during this period.
