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Now the main goal of this thread to ask a somewhat repreated question but I haven’t seen it in a while. So, what if by a series of events that will lead to an escalation of the franco prussian war. Now my assumption is italy and prussia are very much going to be allied because of similar goals.

Now a small timeline could be when itsly is preparing to intervene in the war of 1866 in realisation of the fractured nature of the army attempt to push the restructuring in the army ahead to be more prepared. Also they take head from persano to actually prepare the ships as he warned the italian command that the ships were unfit and needed to be refurnished. Now i dont know to much about the details of the battle of lisa other than that italians were overconfident and did not worry about the ships. There may of been incompetence on persano’s part but i do not know this if you can answer this then that could be great.
I do believe the commander for the army was decent however the forces themselves were not up too scratch to take them on.
So, if italy did these thing and beat the austrians they dont have to pull a Königgrätz but if they do achieve victory i can see alot of butterflies forming. I would say that with the fleet back up to scratch they could smash the austrian fleet. as i would see italy taking trentino and pushing the border to atleast the isonzo. Maybe even take a few islands along the coast but not too much more, i can also see some heavy reperations so that would sting. In this case i can see prussia signing the alliance with italy. This can lead to a quite cold and nasty relationship with prussia but turn the italian one too complete venom they will want to break italy so i see them also supporting the pope to say fuck you to italy. So i do suspect this will allow italy a fair bit of success in peace time alowing for a more ready italy for the war too come for prussia i would not expect much to change for them as that will come pretty much as expected however, how can we get bismark too atleast weaken his predejuces?
So i can see austria joining the war to more over attack italy rather than prussia but will in turn drag them into the war with france against prussia
So, final question how fo you think this will go?
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