Hungary avoids Trianon losses

This may be asb territory but I know Hungarians weren't happy about WW1 and being dragged in by the Austrians suppose they rise up? Could it be possible for an alt WW1 where early on Austrian troops have to deal with Hungary then in the post war there's no Trianon the Austrian part of the empire is dismantled still but Hungarians keep all of their country including the potentially unhappy about the situation croatians. Or maybe it becomes the Hungarian Federation with autonomy for Croatia and Slovakia as well as the Romanian regions of Transylvania.
 
This may be asb territory but I know Hungarians weren't happy about WW1 and being dragged in by the Austrians suppose they rise up? Could it be possible for an alt WW1 where early on Austrian troops have to deal with Hungary then in the post war there's no Trianon the Austrian part of the empire is dismantled still but Hungarians keep all of their country including the potentially unhappy about the situation croatians.

Not very plausible with a POD close to WWI. It would take a revolution erupting early in the war since the Hungarian half of the empire was, after all, ruled by a collaborationist clique which - once it got its pound of flesh from the Cisleithanian government, in tax concessions or rights to decide over a military matter or another - was quite happy to go along with Franz Josef's plans. With a couple decades of divergence, you could potentially achieve a situations where the Hungarians do rise up - possibly if the Habsburgs begin seriously considering federalization plans so that the Slavs and other ethnicities get increased rights, leading to Hungary becoming dissatisfied with the Ausgleich agreement and reformists taking the opportunity early in the war to declare independence and try to break away in the chaos. Croatia would probably go, as it was already somewhat autonomous (even if there were Magyarization attempts in the late 1800s) but Slovakia and Transylvania, along with the Banat, might well be retained. The question is, would the Habsburgs go to war if they knew such severe internal crises threatened them?

Or maybe it becomes the Hungarian Federation with autonomy for Croatia and Slovakia as well as the Romanian regions of Transylvania.

Haha, no. Hungarian nationalism was very toxic even before Trianon and Hungary routinely oppressed all of its minorities - with the possible exception of a Red Hungary, any scenario of Great-Hungarian independence would lead to the same result, and the minorities would have to violently extract concessions paid in blood over the next decades. During the first half of the 1800s, there were opportunities for the Hungarians and the other minorities to build friendly ties with the Slovaks, Romanians etc., some of which were promising, but the refusal of Kossuth and his clique to champion the causes of the smaller minorities during the events of 1848, and the further deterioration of relations that ensued during the Dual Monarchy when Hungary essentially became the Kapo of the Austro-Hungarian prison state, responsible for the suppression of the other minorities so that Hungarians would only be second-class citizens within the monarchy instead of third-class, meant that such cooperative tendencies eventually burned out.
 
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