The Dominion tonnage need not all be built immediately, and Canada could leave an allocation unused without transferring it to the Royal Navy. In the scenario, Canada also helps negotiate the end of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. The same bargain lets Australia and New Zealand retain a tangible security guarantee as the alliance ends. Their 15-inch-gun ships would remain prestigious and militarily useful even if they ranked below treaty battleships. Local ownership ties regional reassurance directly to the treaty settlement.
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Dominion ships could replace some alliance reassurance
Keeping modern battlecruisers could give Australia and New Zealand a visible security guarantee as the Anglo-Japanese Alliance ends.