American fast battleships would prevent a treaty settlement

What if the United States built fast battleships instead of Standards before the Washington treaty?

Britain, Italy, and Japan would respond with their own ships, and the prediction is that the Washington treaty would not occur.

Replacing the American standard battleships with later fast-battleship designs would change the basis of interwar naval competition. The prediction is that Britain would build to match them. Italy and Japan would also respond. Under those assumptions, the Washington treaty settlement would not occur.