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The thread I made a couple weeks earlier about a President Robert Taft got me thinking about it. Suspending disbelief for a moment, let's say that after or pretty soon after a World War II that goes mostly as per our timeline and ending in 1945, let's say the United States, for whatever reasons, recalls her troops for world obligations right. So aside from some trade, some semi-frequent intervention in Central America and the Caribbean to protect US business interests, and a handful of naval bases in the Philippines, America is spending it's time in "Splendid Isolationism" for at least the next several decades.

In the short term, this means no Marshall Plan, no NATO, no Truman Doctrine, nothing of the sort, but how does the world go on without American interventionism or internationalism? Specifically,

-How do Europe and Asia put up against the Soviet Union?

-Do some sort of second Entente try to continue the Cold War without America?

-Speaking of which, how does the USSR react to not being as strongly challenged on the world stage as our timeline?

-How does decolonization go? Do Britain, France, and Portugal try more strongly to hold on their African empires? How about Indochina?

-What about the Middle East? Does Israel get off the ground? What about pan-Arabism?

-How does Europe get along without Marshall's aid (probably better than expected, but not as good as our timeline.

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Remember, this isn't really a discussion on how this effects America, but how it does the rest of the world. So, what do you all think?
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