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I don't quite know if this is possible considering that nationalism was still in its infancy, but what would have happened if Napoleon had at least attempted to balkanize the Habsburg Monarchy / Austrian Empire the same way he had dismembered the Holy Roman Empire?

Napoleon's general strategy seemed to be the balkanization of his enemies, this can be seen in his plans to turn Portugal, Switzerland, and the Holy Roman Empire into smaller countries (one of those plans succeeded).

If Napoleon's victory was so destructive that he could dictate the breaking up of the Habsburg Monarchy / Austrian Empire, how would he redraw the borders of the new countries created in the collapse? If Napoleon still lost, how would these new countries be dealt with at the Congress of Vienna?
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