Soviet participation would provide experience of negotiating naval limits before the war. If the altered timeline still produced a Cold War, that earlier agreement could supply a starting framework for further arms-control negotiations. Its usefulness would depend on how the intervening war and alliances developed.
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Prewar treaty practice could shape postwar arms control
Soviet participation in interwar naval limits creates a negotiating framework that could survive into a later Cold War-like rivalry.