AHC: G4 Wank P5 Screw

With a POD after the establishment of UN, could you make G4 (India, Germany, Japan, Brazil) to be a stronger force than the P5 (US, UK, USSR, France, China)?

You may not have it to be a "de jure situation" (as I like to call it) reminiscent of Taiwan keeping UN seat and such. The P5 Nations must occupy the core of their nation. (I will use the term 'core' very loosely, so permanent Civil war or Korea like situation is fine)

Bonus-
G4 GDP is about 1.5 times P5
World is more advanced technologically.
 
Easiest way to do it seems to be a nuclear exchange during the Cold War that annihilates the US, USSR, China, France, UK, Germany, and possibly Japan. India may or may not be nuked, but Brazil will probably survive, and Brazil>0, so then G4>P5.
 
Yeah I was thinking about that, but the governments must survive.
Easiest way to do it seems to be a nuclear exchange during the Cold War that annihilates the US, USSR, China, France, UK, Germany, and possibly Japan. India may or may not be nuked, but Brazil will probably survive, and Brazil>0, so then G4>P5.
 
Hmm, thought this might been a TL where Intel stuck with Pentium 5 architecture, never releasing the Pros or PIIs while the Apple G4 Power PC chips got better than OTL
 
The specifics are hard to nail down but the challenge seems reasonable. If you began in 1945 and the G4 only surpassed the P5 72 years later you'd succeed, right?

So rather than a POD let's focus on the likely negatives for the P5:
  • Leadership of the USSR is fickle and has an overwhelming effect on the nature of the country; you put a bunch of cut-ups in charge and the place just falls apart.
  • Ibid China.
  • The US has no end of internal tension points. From our OTL experience we know that without a grave, existential enemy we have the potential to go off the rails and self-destruct. If we accept the first bullet about the USSR and see it collapsing decades early, well the US could easily flub its own power in the wake of that collapse, with several decades to lose ground to other countries.
  • France had a chance to go pretty authoritarian IOTL and might've easily taken it. Say they do and get cut out or at least down-graded as a good-faith global partner.
  • It's hard to consider tackling the UK with so many avid UK historians on the board. While I'm sure they could lay out a scenario for the UK's diminishment, I'll just leave this one and say 4/5 should do the trick.
As for the G4 I'm less sure of how to make them better. More favorable international patent and financing situations would help, better opportunities to lead in education and world trade. A Japanese government that embraces contrition internationally and covers for it with a huge wealth boom domestically. A Germany pivoting to a Mitteleuropa federation in the wake of the collapsed Iron Curtain and France going sorta fascist. India making the Kerala model a new kind of civic religion. Brazil taking on the role of Germany of Latin America after the US turns inwards.

The G4 trends up, the P5 trends down, the lines cross in mid-October of 2017.
 
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