AHC: Screw the UK, France, USA, Russia and China

Those 5 are a part of the security council. What will it take for a POD after 1900 to make all 5 of this a terrible place to live?
 
Axis victory is the obvious answer, but for a more dubious answer I say no WW1(and no comparable great war between the powers).

As a result of avoiding WW1 and WW2 Britain and France are not crippled and forced to yield their empires- instead they implement conscription to hold down decades-long guerrilla warfare in their colonies. The principle opposition to the increasingly burdensome warfare comes from the socialist movement, which ultimately leads to a socialist insurgency. There's all sorts of ways that could go nasty.

Russia also faces a socialist insurgency, but without the regime being hollowed out by WW1 the Tsar doesn't fall nearly as quickly, and so it devolves into a perpetual grinding civil war. If/when the tsar is overthrown, Germany intervenes on their behalf to "restore the (puppet)empire", and so we half the whole Russian empire as a German protectorate for god knows how long.

That leaves the US and China. Not sure there.
 
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