Without postwar mandates carved from the German and Ottoman empires, Britain has fewer new territories to administer. The government could concentrate on its existing empire and advance dominionization, gradual self-government aligned with British interests, earlier. This would be an administrative and fiscal strategy rather than instant independence. The counterfactual connects the historical territorial settlement to the pace and burden of imperial devolution.
Notable Point · 2:31:02-2:32:07
No postwar mandates could accelerate dominionization
Without new German and Ottoman mandates to absorb, Britain may concentrate on its existing empire and move earlier toward self-governing dominions.