User blog comment:IndigoOnIceCream/What if France won the Franco-Prussian War?/@comment-73.163.47.112-20150423012428

I disagree with the majority of this yes if France had won the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 then France would've been the largest power in Europe and Germany wouldn't have united into its current state. Prussia would've been considerable weakened and Napoleon III would've ruled much of Europe however if we look at the politics after the Franco-Prussian war(real time) France and Russia became considerable allies and eventually this extended to Britain as well. If France had won the Franco-Prussian war(alt time) Austria would have had to ally itself to France the Italian States would've become French satellite states and Anglo-Franco relations would've been predominately negative. If France made the correct political move after its victory against Prussia it would have allied itself with most of Eastern and Central Europe against the Ottoman empire allowing Austria and Russia gains in Ukraine and the Balkans while incorporating German territories and like his forbearer Napoleon I created a Polish state allied to France. Given the likely tensions between France and Britain we likely would have seen a conflict between Continental Europe and Britain with Britain losing and hence the lose of many of its colonies. Spain and Portugal in the Iberian Peninsula would have been enemies of France due to their past Napoleonic relations and the Iberian Peninsula would have been troublesome but for either to send an army over the Pyrenees would have been military suicide. From this point France could have expanded it North African holdings and maybe incorporated Egypt into its empire making it the leading Mediterranean power while allowing Russia and Austria to expand their empires into former Ottoman territory. It is almost certain that in this scenario that World Wars 1 and 2 would not have happened and that the Ottoman empire would have fallen. However we come onto the issue of Napoleon III whose initial arrogance in the Franco-Prussian war lead him to his defeat. Since he is human and no where near as good as Napoleon I he most likely would have tried attacking Austria Russia and Spain been defeated in a series of battles although he probably would have had a initial advantage due to size but eventually would have been defeated and France after having been defeated for a second time in a large scale war of progress at the head of Napoleon I and Napoleon III would have become a second rate power with Prussia restored and a strong anti-French alliance created making World War 1 and 2 unlikely. This argument is accounting the possibility that Napoleon III is in power at the end of the war. Another likely scenario involving the war itself would have been Napoleon III was accused of treason for military disasters then replaced with generals who would make use of France's superior rifle technology and their superior numbers to create heavy infantry battalions that would be used in combination with cavalry to defeat German artillery formations then the German army itself yielding a victory that would more resemble the former scenario and involve a dominant France in European politics and the fall of the British in another war probably leading to American naval dominance and Frances control of China/southeast Asia, Africa and other colonies in Eurasia+Africa. This would lead to competition between the United States and France with France likely winning this engagement against a divided political United States(Civil War) which would have lead to French domination of the region.