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Everyone recognizes the work done by Bismarck to unify the German confederation. But we must admit that he was really helped by the bloody American quagmire. During almost two decades France was
forced to fight against Mexicans in begining (without much difficulties ) until USA threatened them pushing France to join the secessionists and therefore saving them on the razor's edge leaving the field wide open for Prussia in Europa.
Bismarck seemed to think that Prussia needed to make a war against France to conclude the unification and he tried several times to provoke conflicts against France but the french empire never took the bait and Bismarck eventually gave up.
Now in an another TL where France never tried to invade Mexico or they lost quickly what would have been the consequences for the unification of Germany ?