France always wanted to remain friendly with Europe, so I'd assume they'd go with the latter.
Oops, I meant Italy
France always wanted to remain friendly with Europe, so I'd assume they'd go with the latter.
Okay, so what if the Great Coalition of the Weimar Republic remains in power as a safeguard against Nazi or Communist takeover of Germany? They were relatively peaceful towards French occupation of the Ruhr and successfully pushed them out, meanwhile the Labours in power in Britain saw Germany as a friend against an imperialistic France. Maybe this fosters relations that France doesn't like?
Yeah but Germany is an effectively neutered country. Strong and stable enough that nobody will want to try and swallow that porcupine but not strong enough to intervene on anyone's side, especially since they are stuck between France and Russia. Kind of like France in johnboy's "Errant Shell" scenario.
By the way, does anyone know why the National Bloc collapsed?
And @Zheng He, do you have any suggestions for colonial PODs that would create tension between British/French?
That's a great scenario!
Though I believe at that point France would lean towards a military dictatorship (Fourth Republic, maybe?) due to their infatuation of Eastern European unity against the hostile Soviet Union, not to mention the Germans, and it could work because French leadership always did want good relations with the other Mediterranean power.
We could even combine the scenarios presented by @Tallil2long as well as @Cryhavoc101, unless that would become simply too unbelievable.
This results in drawing in the Soviet union and Fascist Italy and despite no clear winner Communist elements attempt to bring the 'revolution to Portugal' through force of arms expecting the people to rise up.
If we can't get a Fascist regime in France, can we go the other route? France's economic straits and wartime trauma brings about a Socialist government, which then tries to establish control over the Ruhr and Rhineland partly out of Socialist sympathy, and partly out of historic security fears?
I should think that would push Britain's buttons.
Maybe it's a dumb idea, y'all can judge.