Plausibility Check: Ethiopian Social Republic in 1939-40?

Is it plausible for Rome to simply realize that holding onto the bulk of Ethiopia is becoming impossible and abandon it after establishing a Fascist client state in the region?
 

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Is it plausible for Rome to simply realize that holding onto the bulk of Ethiopia is becoming impossible and abandon it after establishing a Fascist client state in the region?
No, Mussolini saw Ethiopia as a prize, a new jewel in the Italian Empire (even though it really wasn't worth it). And there were no Ethiopian fascists to install.
 

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While there might be no Ethiopian Fascists, I can think of a few puppets - Ras Gugsa Haile Selassie and Ras Hailu come to mind.
or Iyasu V if he had not conveniently died shortly before the Italians took the place he was held in.
But it would require a different Mussolini to give away what he thought was Italy's fair share in the colonial race to a puppet government.
 
or Iyasu V if he had not conveniently died shortly before the Italians took the place he was held in.
But it would require a different Mussolini to give away what he thought was Italy's fair share in the colonial race to a puppet government.
I assume that this Ethiopia wouldn't include the Tigrayan and Somali-populated provinces bordering Eritrea and Somalia - but the main issue is how to get Mussolini to change his mind so how might that occur?
 
the proposal of a partion was advocated by Sir samuel Hoare as part of the stressa front. A Italian alliance with France against Germany
 
the proposal of a partion was advocated by Sir samuel Hoare as part of the stressa front. A Italian alliance with France against Germany
That might see Ethiopia become the same Fascist client state that the OP desired if the details of the Hoare-Laval Plan isn't leaked.
 
While, I don’t share his politics Buchanan has done the research. The idea was to partition simmilar to Israel and Jordan half to hallie salassie and half to victor emmanual, Ethiopia would be compensated with part of somiland.
 
While, I don’t share his politics Buchanan has done the research. The idea was to partition simmilar to Israel and Jordan half to hallie salassie and half to victor emmanual, Ethiopia would be compensated with part of somiland.
I'm sorry but who is Buchnan?
 
Would major Franco-British pressure or the threat of it be enough to limit Italian conquests? In this scenario it sounds like the rump Ethiopia would be a Finlandized state comprised of pre-war Ethiopia - Ogaden and northern areas near Eritrea.
 
Would major Franco-British pressure or the threat of it be enough to limit Italian conquests? In this scenario it sounds like the rump Ethiopia would be a Finlandized state comprised of pre-war Ethiopia - Ogaden and northern areas near Eritrea.
Perhaps. Could you elaborate what you have in mind in regards to “major Franco-British pressure”?

I was thinking that this Ethiopia would be limited to the regions of Amhara, Galla-Sidamo, Shoa and Harar that the Italians established in Occupied Ethiopia IOTL.
 
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