Winston's Plan was broadly feasible. The key was whether the United States would take the bait, but judging by the previous life's history, Britain was quite adept at sweet-talking the Americans.
Britain's Wartime Propaganda Bureau had a specialized information department dedicated to winning over the United States. It also employed large numbers of professionals familiar with American national conditions to lobby the American upper classes and elites in every field, peddling the benefits of joining the Entente Powers camp.
American public opinion was also deeply influenced by Britain. This was easy to understand: the United States was not the world hegemon it had been in the previous life. The hegemony over global public opinion was now firmly in British hands.
The hegemony of public opinion could be called the privilege of every world hegemon. Take the previous life's twenty-first century: even world powers second only to the United States, such as the Far East Empire and Russia, were besieged by this hegemony of public opinion, while their own countries harbored a batch of yes-men that had been cultivated from within.
As for other countries, unless they adopted the information-isolation policies of nations like North Korea, Cuba, or Eritrea and cut themselves off from the world, they could forget about escaping the siege and harvesting of public-opinion hegemony.
The most typical example was the Soviet Union. In its later years, the Soviet Union truly was a regime that had fallen behind the times, but under the West's color revolution, its upper ranks actively surrendered and dismantled the foundations of their own rule. It was enough to make one's jaw drop.
Compared with the Soviet Union's late-stage ruling class, the methods and vision of the North Korean government's senior leadership were clearly far more shrewd. After all, if the Soviet Union had