WI: Napoleon Dismantles Austria and Prussia?

Matteo,
Austria was not a faithful ally. It was a defeated foe, and was only cooperative with France when it had no other choice, and backstabbed at the earliest opportunity.

The faithful ally was Spain, who willingly became an ally (albeit after a loss in the Pyrenees showed them who was the predominant military power. But still, was one of the earliest and the most faithful of allies). That worked out well for them.

This is what Metternich wanted everybody to believe when Nappy was defeated. But reality was different. Before the russian disaster, Austria bet on what everyone deemed certain : a lasting french domination.
 
This is what Metternich wanted everybody to believe when Nappy was defeated. But reality was different. Before the russian disaster, Austria bet on what everyone deemed certain : a lasting french domination.

Austria pursued a genuinely pro-French policy for slightly more than three years: from the Treaty of Schoenbrunn until the Russian disaster. Before that, it certainly was not in any capacity a French ally. I agree that Metternich's initial policy was one of accepting French domination, but I think a policy that lasted three years shouldn't really be used as the basis of describing Austria as a "faithful ally." It was a cautious ally, bound to France only because it had been forced to give up on all more attractive options.
 
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