Global Economic Breakdown after the Great War?

This may not make much sense, and please don't say "The Depression was OTL!", but I've been playing the Kaiserreich mod for HOI2, and I can't help but think about what a sad, broken world it must be. It stretches implausibility on the surface, but I think it's onto something actually fairly interesting, namely the economic aftermath of a Western Collapse in the Great War.

Essentially, what would the ramifications be for a revolution in France and Britain in the aftermath of the Great War? Or even their defeat? It seems to me that a German victory in the Great War would smash the global economic order far beyond OTL, since Britain was still a major lender and investor overseas even after the war.

Does America fill that role earlier? Germany seems unlikely to step into the role, since even if they win it'll be a near run thing...
 
This may not make much sense, and please don't say "The Depression was OTL!", but I've been playing the Kaiserreich mod for HOI2, and I can't help but think about what a sad, broken world it must be. It stretches implausibility on the surface, but I think it's onto something actually fairly interesting, namely the economic aftermath of a Western Collapse in the Great War.

Essentially, what would the ramifications be for a revolution in France and Britain in the aftermath of the Great War? Or even their defeat? It seems to me that a German victory in the Great War would smash the global economic order far beyond OTL, since Britain was still a major lender and investor overseas even after the war.

Does America fill that role earlier? Germany seems unlikely to step into the role, since even if they win it'll be a near run thing...

It would be a collapse of the European economic systems that would make the Great Depression look like a time of plenty, also the Americans won't invest in a Europe consumed by violent revolution and upheavle. You would end up with a Europe consumed in the fires of revolution as right and left wing factions battled it out in the streets of every nation even the victorious German Empire. Basically what you get from a German victory is an America that gains unbridaled access to colonial markest as they watch the old world burn.
 
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