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    Plausibility Check: An eventual creation of a European Union-style confederation if the Central Powers will win World War I?

    Well the problem with WWI as OTL was it didn't complete the job. Both France and Germany thought they could still survive being hostile at least politically and economically with each other and that Germany was allowed to rearm and try to dominate the continent again. You would need a...
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    Plausibility Check: An eventual creation of a European Union-style confederation if the Central Powers will win World War I?

    On the 1st point wise leaders and people think in the longer term - albeit that doesn't rule out them going in a bloody stupid direction - but most people including many politicians do think in the short term. There has traditionally been discontent about large scale migration in every society...
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    Plausibility Check: An eventual creation of a European Union-style confederation if the Central Powers will win World War I?

    a) If they allow it. Expect some would be but both on racial/national terms - not wanting too many minority groups and economic ones - objections from workers who face their wages and hence living standards being cut. However given the number of people from eastern and Balkan areas who might...
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    Plausibility Check: An eventual creation of a European Union-style confederation if the Central Powers will win World War I?

    Yes in that respect definitely and you wouldn't have the same level of brutal repression, at least inside greater Germany but I think the same fundamentals apply in that you have one large highly militarised power treating a lot of neighbouring states as basically economic if not fully political...
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    Plausibility Check: An eventual creation of a European Union-style confederation if the Central Powers will win World War I?

    Well that was after the bloodbath of WWI and with a desire to prevent it happening again. It still took WWII to remove most of the remaining desire for military 'victory' in Germany. If you have an imperial Germany that gains a military victory in WWI and makes most of the continent its...
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