Yet another Central Powers win, France goes fascist, reverse WWII scenario

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Alternatively, let's not neglect the effect that a WWI defeat would have had on France.

Humiliated, it would most probably have spawned a reactionary, totalitarian ideology not unlike fascism. A "national revolution" led by the "Action Française" would have overthrown the Republic and proclaimed a new "French State", led by Marshall Pétain and based on an illiberal and violently anti-Semitic National-Catholic ideology. Pétainist France would have found ready allies in its Southern neighbours: in Italy, a firebrand former Socialist journalist called Benito Mussolini, secretly on the pay of the French secret service, would have taken over power after a March on Rome. In Spain, after the terrible defeat of Annual at the hands of a secretly German-supported revolt in Spanish Morocco, king Alfonso XIII would also have put most power in the hands of General Primo de Rivera. French and Spanish troops, using poison gases, would have brutally suppressed the revolt and entered German Morocco in hot pursuit of the rebels, leading to a serious incident with Germany, which would only cement the French-Spanish-Italian "Roman League".

France would also covertly support insurgencies within its enemies, notably in Ireland and German satellite Belgium. The Irish revolt led by the "green shirts" of the IRA would lead to an independent, and violently anti-British, "Irish Catholic State" modelled after France and receiving significant military and naval support from the "Roman League". In Belgium, resentment of the Prussian overlordship would boil over and lead to a call for "Rattachement" to France. This call would be gladly answered by France, which would take over Belgium in a fortnight without reaction from the mutually suspicious German and British.

Despite material affluence, the German and Austro-Hungarian empires would remain riven by internal conflict. In Germany, France would support dissent and even terrorism in Alsace-Lorraine, Luxembourg, the Saar and Rhineland, and would seek secret contacts among the Catholic principalities, notably with Bavaria, where an expatriate Austrian painter would possibly attract the attention of French agents. Austria-Hungary, having gained a Slavic population majority after its victory in the Great War, would have to grant its Slavic peoples equal representation to the Austrian and Hungarians. This would lead to significant resentment in Hungary, which could eventually declare its independence under Admiral Horthy, and join the "Roman League". In turn, this would fuel German nationalism in Austria, and destabilize the Imperial court.

Unrest in Vienna would lead to a popular proclamation of Anschluss with Germany. The Roman League would take this as excuse to "come to the rescue of the oppressed Catholic Italians and Slavs of the Austrian Empire" with a pincer attack from Italy and Hungary. Simultaneously, to prevent a German reaction, the armoured columns of Col. de Gaulle, an old protégé of Pétain, would launch an attack from Belgium, through the Eifel (previously thought impenetrable), directly into the industrial heartlands of the Rhineland, cutting off most of the German Army in Luxembourg and Alsace-Lorraine and leading to a military disaster and an armistice. WWII would start...

Counterfactuals are fun!

What do you guys think of this?
 
Can you explain please how Britain became an enemy of France despite siding with her in the war?
 
Can you explain please how Britain became an enemy of France despite siding with her in the war?

Also, in a timeline where the Central Powers win the war, I would expect that an Irish state would have been declared as part of the peace forced on Great Britain. Such a Republic would, likely encompass the entire Island, which would largely negate the need for a paramilitary presence within Ireland (unless the UDA begins paramilitary operations, which could be a strong possibility).
Considering the relative weakness of the Blueshirts in Ireland in OTL, I don't really see why a *Fascist group would be any more popular in the ATL, especially without Britain staring at the republic from across the border between the South and the North.
 
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