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Let's set the following scenario:

In 1918 Germany and A-H agree on accepting a treaty of peace, but from a stronger position than IOTL.

The German Empire does not fall, it is somehow reconverted to a constitutional monarchy (no Weimar Republic) similar to UK with improved democratic standards which appease revolutionary movements inside Germany. A-H is divided anyway.

Then, a more neutral treaty of Versailles is approved:

- Germany restores Alsace-Lorraine to France, but no other border changes are made in the East.
- Germany renounces to Brest-Litovsk and accepts the creation of the Polish Republic, but without ceding territories to the new state. Otherwise, Poland receives Galizia from A-H.
- Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia are not formed: German Austria (including Slovenia and South Tyrol), Croatia and Bohemia-Moravia remain as satellite or associated states of Germany, while Slovakia is part of the new Hungarian Republic, along with Transylvania. Serbia gets Bosnia-Herzegovina from A-H.
- No military occupation of Sarre, Rheinland etc. is performed. Germany and France agree on mutual demilitarization of their borderlands.

Which would be the medium/long term consequences of this kind of scenario?
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