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Oh, of course. I don't think anyone really wanted to capture him.

If Bin Laden is captured by the UK he's on a plane to America within hours, any laws to the contrary be damned.

To get back to this: the German Confederation was a big nonentity - it was even less united than the current EU. Its only real purpose (for which it had been created at Vienna) was to be a defensive alliance against future French expansionism in Germany.

Britain isn't going to war if it didn't even do anything in OTL. France has been smashed. Who's left? Russia? Good luck.

No, no, no. It's hard to describe how revolutionary German unification was. It permanently ended French pretensions of leading Europe (sorry, de Gaulle) for the first time in two and a half centuries. Unified Germany almost immediately became Europe's most powerful state. It's a testament to...

German unification destroyed the European balance of power even in OTL. By your logic it should never have been allowed. And if anyone can craft a Greater Germany, Bismarck can.

Sorry, Kvasir, but no. Germany already has Poles and Lithuanians, even Bohemia is going to be a stretch considering how continuously poor German-Czech relations were there. Galicia and Slovakia? No way.

That's a shit trade for Russia and everyone will know it.

It would be interesting for it to become some sort of Poland-in-exile centered on Krakow. Though Russia wouldn't accept that, and Germany wouldn't like it either.

OTL Bratislava - part of Germany. That's an interesting scenario, though didn't the city have an ethnic German majority prior to WW1?

Germany certainly isn't annexing Galicia - it has few Germans in it and is ludicrously exposed to Russian attacks.

Though even OTL's German Empire quickly became the continent's most powerful nation even without Austria. With a large part of Cisleithania added (and likely Hungary in its diplomatic orbit) it would have been even more powerful, and with the right people in power it could have dominated Europe.

I wonder if two 'wrong-winner' elections in a row, with both parties winning at different times, would have resulted in a serious electoral reform movement.

Are you sure? I had a materials lecture a week ago in which the Titanic incident was a prominent example.

Though not Pan Am in space :p.