CP Victory: Would Austria Consider Joining Germany When Her Empire Collapsed?

CP victory would IMO require much better war success from the Empire - and if the Army is intact and the economy doesn't go down the drain, the separatist forces don't gain enough support and influence to do squat.

In OTL it took them to late 1917 to start seriously considering separation from the Empire - in a world where CP do better (neutral Britain and/or Italy, for example), the "inevitable" collapse of the Empire remains a wishful dream of small groups of separatists - the majority wants to remain within the economic framework of the Empire, but wants to improve the position of their nation within the said framework due their wartime sacrifices.

So no, it won't be happiness and light all over and especially Hungarian nobility will cause a lot of trouble in any postwar settlement - but as long as the Army remains intact and the people have enough to eat and warm their houses, there won't be a dissolution of the Empire after a CP victory.
 
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