You mean the treaty limitations currently being flagrantly ignored by the worlds leading navies and their new building programs
The Paris Naval Treaty was abrogated on September 1st, 1939. Granted, the USN's
Oregon class battleships (49 000 t) displaced over the Treaty limit of 44 000 t but well under the 35% escalator (59 400 t). The
Yamatos, the first of the real treaty-busters weigh in at about 59 000 t
light just in case the IJN
really needed to cheat, but
Vanguard and the
Alabamas are heavier still.
Indeed. There's also the fact that the Allies won't want to push the Mediterannean Pact into the arms of the Germans. And once the war is finished, the Imperial Pact, the USA and Soviet Union all won't want to push Mussolini and his allies into each other's arms either. So I don't think anyone will seriously bother the Italians about those ships, not when the Med Pact is not threatening anyone and there's bigger fish.
Indeed! Mussolini is more than likely relishing his newfound power, even if it is just limited to giving the various Allied nations a headache over who's problem he is. As for the ships, nobody really wants the Soviets to have them either. Even with them, all that means is that the Italians have local naval superiority in the Mediterranean,
if the Americans don't get involved. If the RM posed a serious threat to Allied ambitions, the USN could just as easily shift the situation in Allied favour.
No, but assuming they're toothless and totally won't hold a grudge over it, well.....
Stalin can hold a grudge, but how it will play out is yet to be determined. The biggest consequence would be Stalin feeling like he were being treated as a second-class ally, and lashing out at the other Allied nations as a consequence.
I wonder how Tube Alloys/F-Go/Ni-Go/French project/Manhattan Project is coming along. It may be necessary to use them with the current state of the URSS.
The Manhattan Project is indeed the farthest along and best funded. Tube Alloys is in second, the French effort second last. The Japanese projects are stalled, as although the Imperial Palace has ordered the two efforts to be consolidated, the Army and the Navy can't agree on who's responsibility it is. If it is to be a last-ditch weapon used to defend the Home Islands, it would be an Army project, but if it is a strategic power-projection weapon, then it would be the Navy's responsibility. The Navy has its bombers, but the Army wants an
Ohka or something like it, and launching them at invaders in the manner of a V1.