Could a harsher naval treaty have broken the challengers?

The game's overwhelming British fleet prompts a deliberately unequal treaty proposal. Britain and the United States would each be allowed roughly thirty capital ships and perhaps twenty or thirty carriers, while Japan would retain a seven-to-ten ratio. France and Italy would receive smaller proportional allowances. The idea is that Mussolini's Italy and imperial Japan might exhaust their weaker economies trying to use the permitted tonnage, leaving Germany isolated after Hitler came to power. Britain and the United States could approach their ceilings slowly because Britain already possessed much of the capital fleet the scheme allowed. This is a counterfactual argument, and it offers a concrete way to think about treaty ratios, industrial capacity, and fiscal pressure.