Hitler creates the war-winning Allied coalition

It should never have turned out this way, but it did.

Except for the British and French empires - and even they very reluctantly - no Allied nations ever went into combat against the evil Axis, unless directly attacked by the Axis first.

Nobody , at least no nation , (some individuals did much better) went to war against the Axis because innocent fellow beings, who they didn't know personally , were being murdered by armed thugs.

No nation ever showed any selfless agape love for their fellow beings.

The soft power reason 1945 British Commonwealth not globe's only Superpower

Strictly in terms of geographic climate hard power, the 1945 British Commonwealth (then at the height of its geographic extent) was the world's only global superpower.

Having lots of sovereign territory spaced out all over the world is the best way to be a superpower --- for a variety of reasons.

Postmodern open "Soft Power" vs Modern secret "Hard Power"

The old - "Modern" - world was organized around hard power's secrecy and monopoly .

In this world, one person only - the American President - had his finger on the red button that simply said "Bombs Away !"

Our new world - "Postmodern" - is organized around the public openness of soft power.

Now seven billion fingers hover above a nation's "Friend Me" button and collectively we all decide its cultural and moral status and hence its soft power.