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A somewhat common conceit in alt-WWI timelines are revolutions in European countries which lead to governments uprooting and heading to the antipodes. Looking at the HOI2 Kaiserreich mod, examples include Frances pre-revolutionary government heading to Algeria and Britain's going to Canada. India is sometimes cited as a destination if the dominions follow the British Isles into revolution. This idea has analogues OTL with the DEI, the Free French, and (briefly) the Belgian Congo during WWII. Can it be a long-term solution though a la Taiwan? Probably not, since that regime eventually indigenised and dropped fantasies of recounquering the mainland, and the people involved there were much more similar than the Europeans and those being colonised would be in this situation.

Is it plausible? Which powers could pull it off? Could you have an Italian Lybia, Dutch Indonesia, French Algeria, British Canada/India, German Mittelafrika, Spanish Morocco, American Cuba, Belgian Congo, Portuguese Angola/Mozambique, Russian Alaska, etc cut off from the revolutionary motherland?
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