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| * **Why it won't happen:** [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-10971032|To quote]] [[offtopic:Komnenos002]], "//This is my pet peeve on alternatehistory.com. I'm somewhat of an anglophile, but it seems like quite a few people will try and use the Commonwealth to resurrect some kind of British Empire. Any future timeline that has the Commonwealth become more important than the EU, USA, or Asia-Pacific region to its members is pretty much handwaving, they don't want a UK tied to Europe, so they arbitrarily bring the Commonwealth in to prop it up.//". | * **Why it won't happen:** [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-10971032|To quote]] [[offtopic:Komnenos002]], "//This is my pet peeve on alternatehistory.com. I'm somewhat of an anglophile, but it seems like quite a few people will try and use the Commonwealth to resurrect some kind of British Empire. Any future timeline that has the Commonwealth become more important than the EU, USA, or Asia-Pacific region to its members is pretty much handwaving, they don't want a UK tied to Europe, so they arbitrarily bring the Commonwealth in to prop it up.//". |
| * **Current progress:** The Commonwealth of Nations is alive and well for what it is (a glorified sporting organisation). But a resurgent British Empire in all but name, that would show the EU, NATO, etc. whatfor, is not only an implausibility, but an anachronism at this point. Note that the UK trades more with Ireland than the entire Commonwealth combined. | * **Current progress:** The Commonwealth of Nations is alive and well for what it is (a glorified sporting organisation). But a resurgent British Empire in all but name, that would show the EU, NATO, etc. whatfor, is not only an implausibility, but an anachronism at this point. Note that the UK trades more with Ireland than the entire Commonwealth combined. |
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| | === Neo-Intermarium === |
| | * **What it is:** Also known as: **Intermarium 2.0**, **Evil/Morally Ambiguous Visegrad Group**, **Pilsudski's Wer Dream: 21st century edition**, **Warsaw Pact (without the Russkies)**, **Warsaw-Budapest Axis of Evil** |
| | * **What it is:** An excuse to create a scenario where the European Union reverts to its pre-2004 or even pre-Cold War borders, with the Visegrad Group countries and other newer EU members randomly leaving and forming their own "eastern European" power block, usually one either not fond of the "old EU" or . |
| | * **Why it won't happen:** Primarily economic reasons, though there are also military, cultural and social reasons and general civic |
| | * **Current progress:** The only progress Hasn't come up since 1945. Tellingly, while the Visegrad Group exists and continues Though the Polish and Hungarian nationalist governments' authoritarian tendencies since the early 2010s - pandering to ultra-conservative voters, limiting freedom of the press, trying to manipulate the judiciary and avoid prosecution for huge corruptions cases - are worrying, their military and economic capability to outpace Even with the improved living standards in the Visegrand |
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