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Okay, so, in OTL, most countries got out of their "I want to build an empire and fuck anyone who doesn't like that" phase in the mid-1800s, after imperialism and colonialism proved conclusively to be a crapshoot, although... well, the German Unification was still a thing, but that was more motivated by nationalism than imperialism.
However, what if imperialism, colonialism, and "fuck everything else" expansionism had stayed with us a few more decades, maybe even a century. What if international relations remained mostly determined by who wanted whose land, how much they wanted it, and what their neighbors thought of them wanting it?
Yeah, I know this is an extremely sarcastic over-simplification which probably falls flat at satirizing the attitudes and ideas of the time, but I figure it'll still probably be an interesting WI.