The United Arab Republic, a Soviet backed secular nationalist state. Or did you think the USSR would do nothing in this period? Or that the
Nobody seems to be thinking that the USSR will also not have lost tens of millions of people as well, and have not lost a decade of economic growth.
And the US is out there. Its first involvement in Saudi Arabia dates to the 1930s.
Faaelin, there is no UAR, Syria it will be still under french rule, Nasser the moment he try to do something will be arrested by the british force.
The USA in this moment (pre WWII) don't depend in foreign oil and it's very isolationist apart the Monroe doctrine, so i don't see them do anything, maybe some protest or word of condemnation, but nothing who impair their lucrative business with UK, France or Italy, who by the way now they are not rebuilding nations depending on the Marshall Plan, but still great power.
Sure the URSS still there, and probably Stalin will try to foment revolt in the colonies but, at least until he obtain nuclear weapons, must limit what he can do if he wont face a war against the rest of the european empire (Stalin was crazy not stupid and caution was his second name)
So now the UK and Germany are going to go along with watching the Libyans be oppressed and ethnically cleansed, when opposing it and harassing Italy is a great way to win PR?
The Answer is...yeah, in OTL nobody say anything. The other colonial power don't want any independent arab nation, and frankly without the nazi the attitude regarding the native will continue as usual...translated: who give a damn. This is not our political correct time, is more 'white man burden' territory
The French economy quadrupled between 1950 and 1985 OTL. A fourfold increase.
the UK's GDP also increased between 1940 and 1960. So again, what has changed from OTL?
Million of dead averted, famine averted, massive reconstruction of infrastructure averted, heavily indebtment with anyone averted, mass psycological trauma averted, mass displacement of people averted, reconstruction of house in enormous scale averted, must continue? It's not a simple matter of GDP, rationing, house crisis, famine was rampant in all continent, as my grandfather say in that time there was very few cat and dog in the street...if you understand what i mean.
Why does it not lose the will in an ATL? Why would public services not come first ATL?
Maybe they will but much later then in OTL, probably around the '80
Pan Arabism was already stirring; the Egyptian uprisings against Britain in 1920 and 1921 happened already. The Iraqi army revolted in WW2; the egyptians were on the fence. And there are several great powers who would like to see these exclusive empires crash and burn.
Yes and they were crushed, the iraqy revolted only with the UK occupied in Europe.