What would happen, if after Sadowa and the Austro-Prussian war, North German Confederation keeps very bad relationships with Austria ? How would it affect history ?
What would happen, if after Sadowa and the Austro-Prussian war, North German Confederation keeps very bad relationships with Austria ? How would it affect history ?
Austria(-Hungary) approaches to France while Germany looks east for friends, Russia.
I agree that Italy would be hostile towards the France-UK-Austria alliance, but i doubt that they'd be so eager to join Germany in case of war. They'd be threatened on three fronts - France from the Alps and Corsica, Austria from Trentino and Istria, and Britain from the south in Malta.If this happens, Italy would never betray Germany, because they are too much hungry about Trentino and Dalmatia.
I agree that Italy would be hostile towards the France-UK-Austria alliance, but i doubt that they'd be so eager to join Germany in case of war. They'd be threatened on three fronts - France from the Alps and Corsica, Austria from Trentino and Istria, and Britain from the south in Malta.
I agree that Italy would be hostile towards the France-UK-Austria alliance, but i doubt that they'd be so eager to join Germany in case of war. They'd be threatened on three fronts - France from the Alps and Corsica, Austria from Trentino and Istria, and Britain from the south in Malta.
Do you think France, Austria and England would still be one camp ? If this happens, Italy would never betray Germany, because they are too much hungry about Trentino and Dalmatia. Would the bolcheviks and mancheviks still uprise ?
So an Angritaly and a Tsarkaiser alliance against Englo-Franco-Austrian alliance. I guess the sparkling of WWI would be the same, Serbian stuff and everything. Who do you think would win ?
I agree. The main reason for the Triple Alliance was Italy's fear of French reprisal for their double handed dealings unifying Italy and t taking over papal lands w hick Napoleon III and post Franco-Prussian War France dod not look favorably on. They do not have the military power to fight on so many fronts even if they had Ge man alliance to keep French and Austrians at bay. British naval power and potential in Asian of Sicily an southern Italy could possibly be of sufficient force to bet Italy.I agree that Italy would be hostile towards the France-UK-Austria alliance, but i doubt that they'd be so eager to join Germany in case of war. They'd be threatened on three fronts - France from the Alps and Corsica, Austria from Trentino and Istria, and Britain from the south in Malta.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorarlberg#HistoryThen again Austria-Hungary in this scenario is threatened all around and barely in a position to start offensive moves. All neighbors except Switzerland and maybe Montenegro have territorial ambitions aimed at A-H. (and the OTL Schweizer Volkspartei wouldn't mind getting Vorarlberg which is ASB for us but should there be an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet with Austria-Hungary as the main course then we'd never know...)
Yeah... Germany and Russia would soon start to make plans how to divide A-H.
Wait. If Austria remains deeply hostile to the NGC, she is likely to intervene in the Franco-Prussian war, causing Russia, and probably Italy as well, to enter on the Prussian side. This, of course, if the different diplomatic alignments do not cause Bismarck to rethink his strategy leading to a different approach and perhaps a different war with France (or no war at all).
No way that WWI happens in any way even remotely resembling OTL, as the Austro-German alliance was the cornerstone of the diplomatic setup causing it.
France-Britain-Austria versus Germany-Russia-Italy is, of course, a plausible enough alignment, and one that would have little trouble winning on the continent (colonial theatres are a different matter) but precisely because it is so, a general war like this is not very likely.
Or if the Russo-Jap War and 1905 Revolution still happen, Germany could take advantage of Russia's problems to collar the lot.
They didn't IOTL.