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Can Germany (under Bismarck or under anybody else if he is not available for some reason) encourage Italy to actively oppose France in Tunisia rather than just take advantage of Italian bitterness over Tunisia after the fact*? Would combined German-Italian warnings deter France or egg France on? Would the German-Italian coalition win in Europe and North Africa if France persisted in the face of their opposition?

Why is Germany doing this? Just work with me here, the Germans are seeking to create a rupture as permanent and irreparable as the one between France and Germany between France and Italy also. Italy gaining territory in Africa or Europe (possibly Nice) from France would divide French revanchist feeling between Germany and Italy and cement Italy to the German orbit.




*In OTL Germany used Italian bitterness against France over Tunis to bring Italy into the Triple Alliance in the 1880s
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