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Say there's no WW2. Germany stays Weimar, Italy stays Kingdom, Japan somehow make Taisho democracy works. What becomes the colonial empire?

Britain is the mostly discussed here. The consensus is that India and Egypt is a lost cause. What about the other? Can (or will) British colonies in Africa stays with Britain? Can the Commonwealth accept South African white rule and Ghana black rule?

France, how about them? Did the Algerian war still happens? What about West and Central Africa? If British Empire holds can France? Are French Indochina doomed to slip away?

How about the minor imperial powers? Belgians in Congo, with so few educated, nationally consciouss elite? Portugal, with their whole "Angola is as Portuguese as Lisbon"? Can the Netherlands hold in Indonesia, with their elite class repressed?

Finally, is 1990 stretching too much for a colonial world?
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