Let's say that Otto von Bismarck, fresh off of ensuring Prussian supremacy in Germany by defeating Austria in the Seven Weeks' War, gets into an accident that incapacitates him and forces Wilhelm I to get a new Foreign Minister. Let's also say this happens before 1870, before Bismarck can unite the German Empire and humiliate France in the process.
So we're left with Prussia as the clear leading power among the German states, but with the Second Empire still around and not embarrassed, and the German Empire stillborn. How will the geopolitical picture look like?
So we're left with Prussia as the clear leading power among the German states, but with the Second Empire still around and not embarrassed, and the German Empire stillborn. How will the geopolitical picture look like?