The campaign reaches capital-ship displacements far above the treaty limits that would soon define the interwar era. A 60,000-ton battleship is already under construction as the scenario approaches 1920, making the scale of escalation immediately visible. The observation is playful, but the strategic point is serious: unrestrained competition drives ever larger, costlier ships and threatens to overwhelm naval budgets. Treaty limits were an attempt to arrest that escalation rather than merely a technical argument over tonnage figures.
Notable Point · 1:26:00-1:26:19
Why naval treaties imposed capital-ship limits
A 60,000-ton battleship under construction before the 1920s provides an immediate illustration of the pressure naval treaties tried to restrain.