I post this because this reminds of a history lession i once had, where we were recreating the treaty of Versailles. I was France, and i demanded germany be broken up. Then the US person ( who clearly must have decided that america was under a milatary dictatorship following the American civil war or revolution) said we should attack china! she said Japan will invade via Manchuria, Britain takes the major ports, France invades from Indochina and the USA supports the British! This made me think since china was divided at the time, we could succeed in our aims, Japan is given Manchuria, Britain given free reign over chinas ports, america given a strip of land on the coast and Taiwan and France given the south of China! Oh and China is put under a puppet warlord who will modernise under our guidence but not be as powerful OTL. And then we talked about the helping the whites in the Russian civil war by sending a huge expanditionary force and capturing the ports and ukrain. Then place our own candidate in charge. Then the USA wanted a secrat alliance with me ( france) and his puppet germany against Britain. Now what a world war THAT would be.....