The closing proposal allows Britain and the United States to build five ships in any five-year period, Japan three, and France and Italy two each. This counterfactual was never a provision of the Washington Naval Treaty. It would replace the long building holiday with rolling construction, potentially preserving industrial skills and giving every signatory a visible path to fleet renewal. The video leaves the question open: would controlled construction have made the system more peaceful and more likely to survive, and why?
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Could rolling quotas have saved the treaty system?
The closing thought experiment keeps the historical fleet ratios but permits regular new construction to test whether the treaty might have become more durable.