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Okay, so a little background info first. I came up with this scenario a while back. In essence, it's a alliance between the USA, France and Russia against Britain, Germany, the Ottomans, China and Japan (not including minor allies on both sides). The year is 1909, though I',m not sure of the POD.

So, to the question. Britain is the driving force behind their alliance, much like how Germany was the driving force behind the Central Powers. They have the biggest military, largest empire, most technologically adept, though the German economy is still bigger. Regardless, when it comes to war, Britain will be forced to provide aid for their failing allies on every front, from North America to the Rhineland, all the way to Manchuria.
They are also the common enemy for the three powers of the opposing alliance, when war comes they will all be facing Britain on their own fronts too, namely Canada, Africa and India.

It's planned that the USA-FR-RUS alliance is going to win, and like IOTLs Versailles, they're going to need someone to blame for the mess. That someone will be Britain, and they will be punished accordingly. Neutralised so they can never threaten world peace again.

But, how exactly does one enforce such a harsh treaty without invading, putting a gun to the Kings head and forcing him to sign? Maybe it's just all the CP and Axis victorys making me cautious, but I am not sure how it would be done, or if it could be done.

So, could Britain be neutralised in this scenario? ie, huge amounts of the empire taken off, demilitarisation etc?

As a note, there's very few "happy" areas of the empire. Conservatives got plenty of good runs. London tried to hold back Dominion status for as long as possible, so there's a lot of people in Canada, Australia et al who think they'd be best going their own ways. Various Indian states have given given half-assed compromises to Dominion status, so they're annoyed. And finally OTLs Irish Unionists no longer feel London has they're best interests at heart and are willing to risk it in a united Ireland.
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