What happens to France if during the summer of 1940, at some point after the French have signed the Bordeaux Armistice, the British come to terms of their own with Germany and Italy?
(For the sake of argument let's say the US government blocks destroyers-for-bases, Churchill becomes convinced that this is a sign that the Americans can't be drawn into the war and that there won't be enough ships for escort plus anti-invasion duty for the UK to carry on fighting, and this combination causes even him to fold for now.)
Do the Germans and Italians continue to occupy parts of France, and to place restrictions on the Vichy government, indefinitely?
Will the Axis offer French colonies in North Africa to Spain now that the British are no longer fighting, to try and bring Franco into the (planned) war against Russia and if so is there anything (without Britain fighting and with France part-occupied) that the French could do about it?
(For the sake of argument let's say the US government blocks destroyers-for-bases, Churchill becomes convinced that this is a sign that the Americans can't be drawn into the war and that there won't be enough ships for escort plus anti-invasion duty for the UK to carry on fighting, and this combination causes even him to fold for now.)
Do the Germans and Italians continue to occupy parts of France, and to place restrictions on the Vichy government, indefinitely?
Will the Axis offer French colonies in North Africa to Spain now that the British are no longer fighting, to try and bring Franco into the (planned) war against Russia and if so is there anything (without Britain fighting and with France part-occupied) that the French could do about it?