Slightly tangential but Germany's neighbor, maybe the most interesting historical counter factual I know of is the United States of Austria [1]. This was an act

Slightly tangential but Germany's neighbor, maybe the most interesting historical counter factual I know of is the United States of Austria [1]. This was an actual plan of the Habsburgs/Franz Ferdinand until he was assassinated. A Central/Eastern European super state and there likely wouldn't have been the world wars as we knew them. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Greater_Austria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Greater_Austr...