This is an interesting enough discussion to justify it's own thread I think. Assume we're talking a long drawn out war but with a CP victory, what effect does this have on the colonial territories? Even with an Allied defeat, they will have held their own colonies and captured Germany's colonies(though perhaps returning them)- and it seems to me that if defeated the demise of their empires will be more rapid then OTL. OTOH if their is a militarist/fascist backlash in France that might mean they sustain their empire for longer ala Salazar of Portugal.