A multipolar 1940s Europe

The problem is that it is hard for me to see an openly expansionist faction getting on the top in France during the interwar period. While there were expansionist voices in France pre war and post war, they were very much in the minority. I doubt that even Charles Maurras and Action Française were expansionist, as after all they mainly cared about putting the clocks back to what they were in 1789 and not about European or overseas expansion.

The expentionism might be a reaction to Germany's own. France ultimate goal might not be so much to add more territory directly to the metropole but rather to create client states (like the netherland described above) to serve as buffer zones.
 

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The expentionism might be a reaction to Germany's own. France ultimate goal might not be so much to add more territory directly to the metropole but rather to create client states (like the netherland described above) to serve as buffer zones.

Or even more so, to expand French power and resources, directly (by the annexation of Wallonia and Luxemburg) and indirectly (by creating a ring of client states in Iberia and Greater Netherlands), to try and bring them closer to balance with German ones.
 

Eurofed

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Hmm, this is an interesting TL. Will it be solved by who gets the Bomb first? Or the powers just do not want to go to war?

Well, a basic assumption of the scenario is that the powers just do not want to go to war as long as each of them can instead get easier pickings by gorging themselves on minors. After the various blocks are more or less stabilized, it is everyone's guess whether the international landscape remains more or less stable in a multipolar pattern or any major wars start.

As it concerns the Bomb, I'd tentatively say that ITTL the great powers get it in the following order:

Germany & the USA
UK & USSR
France & Italy
Japan
 
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