Guys
I think no doubt Britain would seek to undermine German dominance, simply as a matter of survival. It may not be militarily as except in naval terms no near term coalition can match Germany and her allies. However there are a number of options:
a) Very likely there will be some sort of imperial tariff, both to help recovery of the economic base and seek to hurt Germany by denying it the former unrestricted access to imperial markets. This will of course also upset the US and you could end up with 3 basic regional zones. Britain would seek to add as many areas as possible to the 'British' trade area for both political and economic advantages. [Given the attitudes of the other two zone leaders this could be fairly effective].
b) There could well be subtle support for the various groups opposing German occupations, especially in eastern Europe. This would probably even include Bolshevik and other such extreme groups. There is likely to be a lot of people resenting German occupation, especially if the war time domination by the army continues. This is likely to be highly costly to Germany even without intervention by Britain or other powers.
c) There are a number of allies that might be possible. Italy and France, while they probably won't want another war, will also be fearful of further extortions from Germany. Hence a defensive alliance would be pretty attractive to them. Whatever's left in Russia after the dusk settles will also not want to be totally dominated by Germany. Austria is probably too tightly tied to Germany, although Karl might seek to obtain some independence but I could see the Ottomans possibly also getting restive if too much of their economy seems to be German dominated.
The big problem Germany has if it wins and tries to enforce military dominance is the same as that Napoleon faces. Especially after such a bitter and costly war there will be pressure for Germany to enjoy the fronts of victory and hence bare down heavily on it's defeated foes and probably some of it's former allies. Hence there is scope for Britain to offer a continued source of independence.
As such, unless it's a very quick and relatively cheap German victory, which seems extremely unlikely, I could see German hegemony being fairly short-lived. It might require another conflict to take it down or the continued attrition of the burdens of empire.
Steve
Hi,
i doubt your points are true
What kind of victory do we talk about?
Wich year?
say 1914, the war is over to fast - so the defeated BEF will be happy to be send home, france - the evil enemy of germany, trying do destroy it will suffer (in military standards, say, no army or navy at all), but not in colonies or areas...
the russians will suffer also, but not to extreme, cause an early vitory means the zar is still in power. So no problem.
Italy - being not in the war is no problem, they will still live with germany
poland - being no own country will not suffer more - so nothing change to 1913
only UK will suffer big, cause their dominace is gone - forever. The USA will take place one and never give it up.
if UK tries a second round, they have russia (beaten bad, so no thankyou), france (no troops, only a country defenceless) and italy (no conflict with germany), a-h, with internal problems, but it is ally nr1 for germany -no interests
the us of a is interested in free lanes for econonmy, if the brits try an embargo they will be beaten by germany AND the usa... nothing the empire survive long.
So round2 isn´t realistic
If you say, germany wins late - things will differ
France - is helpless and will be full of german troops, german subs in french harbours

so the subwar will get much more interested than in 1917/18
Italy - utterly beaten even by AH - no way the people will fight another stupid war against germany, the country that did nothing evil
Russia - well - russia is in no shape to do anything... at best the whites win against the reds.. but the germans will have a huge booster by the large portion of former russian industry/land.
The liberated people will be not unhappy with german "support", at last in the first 5 - 10 years
the poles will be angry, but with no direct support this is only a minor matter - say 2 german corps in 2 weeks and it is over - nothing the poles can do about it
the usa - if war is over before declaration of war - the same as in the early win scenario... if not, they will make a deal.
UK is doomed in both scenarios, if they do not accept german victory...
the osmans are no enemy of the germans, but of the brits. so a alliance between these two nations is not realistic for the 20ties or 30ties.
So no, the economic booster of the continental german economic alliance will earlier stablize the whole thing, only the brits will be unhappy - a good thing
If the brits try to much things the germans do the same - including uprisings in the large british colonies... i bet the brits will roll over very soon
also no merchant war - if you are not the biggest guy that can hurt his enemies, you kick only you