Since the British wanted to stir the situation into even greater chaos, it meant they had the ability to do so. As the "world hegemon," Britain still possessed many weapons and bargaining chips that could not be ignored.
Militarily, Britain had already fallen behind, but it still held financial and public-opinion hegemony over the world, along with a rich family fortune accumulated over a century.
The current world order had been established under British leadership. They had cultivated large numbers of comprador classes and representatives of vested interests across the globe, all of whom were forces Britain could directly manipulate.
For instance, these groups whose interests were tied to Britain could serve British strategy within their own countries, lobby their governments, use the news media under their control to steer public opinion, and so on.
Britain in the 1930s greatly resembled the United States of the previous life as it began to show signs of decline.
Britain had already lost its absolute military advantage. Even though it still possessed the world's strongest navy, the United States in the 2020s had likewise lost its absolute military advantage because a new competitor had emerged.
Yet there was no denying that America's military, like Britain's at present, was a camel that remained larger than a horse even after starving to death. Both also retained a numerical advantage in naval scale.
Its technological advantage was gone as well. Britain's situation was even worse than America's, because in this time and space, far more countries possessed military technology no weaker than Britain's than the number of nations America had faced in the previous life.
In the previous life, America had merely lost its naval technological advantage over the Far East Empire. Britain's navy, however, held no technological advantage over East Africa, Germany, or the United