The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is once the most powerful nation on Earth, is not doing particularly well by 1952. The defeat at Dunkirk caused an international humiliation, hastening the fall of the British Raj, and bringing the power of the empire seriously into question. The United States now dominates western geopolitics, and the dominions such as Canada and Australia have become de facto independent, and are just as much under American control as British.
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