I've been pondering an AH scenario that will end up with fascist states Britain, Russia and industrialized Egypt United in arms against the rest of the world. The POD is the Russo-Japanese war goes in Russia's favor, and this creates immeasurable butterflies.
One of them is that Britain loses its grip on most of its colonies due to internal weakness (specifically India) around 1930, in the wake of the ATL Great Depression. However, I'm having a hard time finding an excuse to create such instability.
WWI does not happen as normal - rather, a series of conflict, first over the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, then Russian Expansionism, then German Colonial Expansion, occur in the 1910's that set the stage for this.
However, I have no clue how to get from WWI-less world with strong, colony-holding Germany, Far-Right Russia, and secure Britain in the 1910's to one where Britain's empire collapses almost completely. What sort of internal troubles did Britain face during this time? What sort of external conflicts could have arisen? Any particularly incompetent or dangerous leaders who were kept from power by a reasonably narrow margin?
Side note: What sort of strong leadership could have arisen in Egypt to do for it what the Meiji Restoration had done for Japan? Expansionist drive to re-create the Caliphate is a bonus.
One of them is that Britain loses its grip on most of its colonies due to internal weakness (specifically India) around 1930, in the wake of the ATL Great Depression. However, I'm having a hard time finding an excuse to create such instability.
WWI does not happen as normal - rather, a series of conflict, first over the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, then Russian Expansionism, then German Colonial Expansion, occur in the 1910's that set the stage for this.
However, I have no clue how to get from WWI-less world with strong, colony-holding Germany, Far-Right Russia, and secure Britain in the 1910's to one where Britain's empire collapses almost completely. What sort of internal troubles did Britain face during this time? What sort of external conflicts could have arisen? Any particularly incompetent or dangerous leaders who were kept from power by a reasonably narrow margin?
Side note: What sort of strong leadership could have arisen in Egypt to do for it what the Meiji Restoration had done for Japan? Expansionist drive to re-create the Caliphate is a bonus.