But what if France had gone Facist insteed of Germany?
Without the Nazis, countries will build their military-industrial complexes. Eventually, tensions would build and war would break out. Unfortunately, it is easy to rationalize a later version of WWII starting with atomic/nuclear bombs, rather than ending with them. It is very possible that a delayed war would have killed more Jews, more Germans, more Russians and more Americans than the war an holocaust in OTL.
Corporatism may eventually fall victim to free market model (although, for all intents and purposes, all recent success stories such as Korea and Japan shout that "corporatism is working" in our face) .racism doesn't becomes discredited by their genocide and general evil, nor do corporatism, anti-Feminism and other reactionary trends.
Are you sure that there would be no major war? Versailles was pretty unstable and humiliating for Germany, so all kinds of revanchist movements getting to power in Germany is possible.Colonial empires will hold out longer without a war, strengthening this perception
I'm not sure about this European "no Israel" wet dream. After all, Israel attracted half mil. of Jews before WWI and 1st round of talks between Britons, Sokhnut and Mufti about partition was in 1937, if Golda Meir is to be believed. Extrapolating this trend for 10 more years (and taking into account that Anti-Semitism will likely get much stronger in Zionist hotbed Poland without Nazi scare, as "judeo-communism" will be their only scare), it's not that hard to forecast 1-1.5 mlns of Jews living in Palestine by the time when British colonial empire will start to fall.There will be no Israel, and anti-semitism will be strong in all countries with large Jewish populations. The British being tired of keeping Jews out of Palestine, might lead to some strategically insignificant area without a too big or resistant population being opened to Jewish setling. The global Jewish community will be divided between the "reformists" accepting an Israel outside Israel and those only accepting only the original place. Jews might very well be this TL's global terrorists.
I would agree that "respectable" anti-Semitism remains a problem longer than OTL.
Corporatism may eventually fall victim to free market model (although, for all intents and purposes, all recent success stories such as Korea and Japan shout that "corporatism is working" in our face) .
Are you sure that there would be no major war? Versailles was pretty unstable and humiliating for Germany, so all kinds of revanchist movements getting to power in Germany is possible.
I'm not sure about this European "no Israel" wet dream. After all, Israel attracted half mil. of Jews before WWI and 1st round of talks between Britons, Sokhnut and Mufti about partition was in 1937, if Golda Meir is to be believed. Extrapolating this trend for 10 more years (and taking into account that Anti-Semitism will likely get much stronger in Zionist hotbed Poland without Nazi scare, as "judeo-communism" will be their only scare), it's not that hard to forecast 1-1.5 mlns of Jews living in Palestine by the time when British colonial empire will start to fall.
And I meant that fascism's economic policies did not get much of bad publicity IOTL, except some cases when one side in some debates needed to badmouth opponents. Even Great Britain adopted corporatism post-WWII to very large extent.There's that possibility, of course. What I really meant was more like, fascism and its economic policies doesn't get all of OTL's badwill.
You need to have fanatics on both sides to fight WWII as it had been fought between Elbe and Volga. However, Western Front-style WWII is quite possible and pretty bad in itself.IMHO, not a WW2-style World War, unless it's against the Soviets. A revanchist German movement would probably be happy with grabbing some land from Poland and just maybe France.
Yes, as everything esle in breakup of colonial empires would happen later ITTL. But I don't believe that Brits would keep "whites" under yoke forever (it does not conform with British views of the empire) and Jews were "whites" for them. BTW, this turn of events can be even sadder for Arabs with AH equivalent of South African apartheid becoming policy of Dominion Judea and Samaria.Israel was coming alright, but it might've taken longer to form ITTL.
Perhaps Chinese remain the stereotypical pulp villains, a la Fu-Manchu. Possiby Communists/Anarchists as well, and there's always room for some menacing Central/Eastern Europeans- some say that Vandrika in Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes is Nazi Germany, but I see it as more like Bulgaria or Yugoslavia.Evil Nazis And Fascists are replaced by Evil Communist And Marxists, is my best bet.
A lot of independent analysts did. Unfortunately, darkest shades of Islamic fundamentalism were only force willing to fight pink westernizator regimes in Islamic world, so in early 1950s they became ultimate American allies for the next 30 years and all early warnings about potential pitfalls of arming and supporting them had been completely silenced by the Cold War propaganda machine. Al-Quaeda is the proof of "you reap what you sow".Who would have thought, forty or fifty years ago (or more), that Islamic extremist terrorists would be the world's bad guys today?