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Would it have ever been possible for Britain under some kind of extremist regime to have launched simultaneous military campaigns against its dominions and other former colonies (excluding the USA) to re-impose direct control over them? The idea behind it being to reforge the empire, but with a more standard, centralized power structure rather than the traditionally decentralized british model of imperialism. Would it have been possible? Could Britain, and whatever manpower and resources it could get from the colonies it did still directly control, defeat, occupy, and "annex" Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, etc...? I'm guessing a fascist regime perhaps with some monarchist trappings would be the best candidate for this kind of job, but only if it had strong ties with the British military. I know there are tons of logical arguments against why a British government would ever want to do this (the costs of empire, the logistics, etc, etc), but lets just assume the group in power has delusional visions of "re-uniting" the british empire under London's supreme authority and has the political will and power to act on those visions. If this happened, would any other countries be likely to intervene? any time periods when it would be most succesful? I'm assuming the best bet would be between the world wars.
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