American-Franco/British Split: What does the rest of NATO do?

European states with colonies in 1950

- Italy

Unless you count the trust territory of Somaliland, Italy didn't have any colony in 1950.
Plus, the Paris treaty of 1947 had introduced a number of limitations to the military, lessened by joining NATO in 1949. How is that going to look if she leaves it the next year?
And what of the Marshall plan?

Count Italy out.
 
For that matter, the idea that West Germany and other European NATO members would go along with a dismemberment of the organization over someone else's colonial dispute, well, it seems a little silly. If this were to happen at all, it would have to be instigated on the US end of things, and I doubt even Taft would be that reckless.
my first thought on this POD was 'the front line states are going to be horrified'... West Germany, Denmark, Norway, Turkey... and Austria, even though not a member state. If NATO is truly gone, won't these nations be trying to put together another coalition without the US?
 
my first thought on this POD was 'the front line states are going to be horrified'... West Germany, Denmark, Norway, Turkey... and Austria, even though not a member state. If NATO is truly gone, won't these nations be trying to put together another coalition without the US?

Why should they? It's not like the US is any less anti-communist, and the UK and France will come crawling back once they realize how badly they fucked up, and that no one wants to join their joke of an alternate defense organization which has less nuclear warheads to its name then a single US Carrier.
 
Why should they? It's not like the US is any less anti-communist, and the UK and France will come crawling back once they realize how badly they fucked up, and that no one wants to join their joke of an alternate defense organization which has less nuclear warheads to its name then a single US Carrier.
I was thinking more along the lines of 'the front line states would try to get Britain and France into another coalition'.... because a European defensive alliance that doesn't include France and Britain is rather a joke...
 
I was thinking more along the lines of 'the front line states would try to get Britain and France into another coalition'.... because a European defensive alliance that doesn't include France and Britain is rather a joke...

Likewise, trying to hold off the Soviets with 15 nuclear warheads is farcical.... Regardless, if this did happen I suspect you simply see the CIA funneling funds into the election campaigns of opposition leaders come the proper time.. and digging up all the dirt it can in the meanwhile. It would truly be a *shame* if evidence or 'evidence' of your serial unfaithfulness to your wife were to come out a week or two before the big vote, wouldn't it... wouldn't you do almost anything to avoid that, Mr. Prime Minister?
 
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