Challenge: Monarchies in the West?

How could Monarchies (constitutional, mind) be seen as typically Western in the Cold War while Republics are seen as Left-Wing and belonging to the East Bloc? Could more Western States (Germany, Italy, etc.) be transformed back into Monarchies at all? With a PoD after September 1939, how could this happen?
 
I really don't think that's possible, since THE western power in the cold war is the modern standard for Republics. Even if you save the Italian and Spanish monarchies, get a Kaiser back in west Germany after WWII and arrange an ASB Monarchic Mind Controller Ray (tm) for the French, the US will (rigthlty) still be there at the head fo the Cold War
 
If by "western states" we mean "American bloc", perhaps we could have Finlandised Germany, delusions-of-third-powerdom France, and then the monarchy distinguishing itself enough to win its referendum in Italy and the Allies invading the Balkans rather than the Soviets? Then throw in Britain, the Commonwealth, and Japan and get them to arrange appropriately around places like, say, Iran and you might at least have Soviet propaganda to the effect that the US is the protector of reactionary emperors and kings?
 
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