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Bless these German states! Honestly, what the hell is it his business what kind of government the Franco-Belgians have?

Why did he not manage to crush the French and Belgian revolutions? Distance?

From a Russian national interests perspective, was supporting the Hungarians in 1848-1849 smarter than supporting the Austrians?

Re: Italy: There is another solution here: Have Austria support Italian unification under its own aegis, possibly under a Hapsburg cadet branch. Upstage Garibaldi by doing his work before he himself is ever actually able to do it.

Italians in Germany are not an unusual phenomenon if the Holy Roman Empire is anything to go by! ;)

Yep! Specifically, have him realize that he can use liberal revolutionaries as tools for his own ends and subsequently strengthen autocratic rule in this new unified Germany (or at least try to do so) by whatever means that he can. Yep, sure sounds like it!