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Unlikely, Sam. You're going well beyond what was their goals, and what was reasonable. Quite frankly, the most they would have even considered is taking the rest of Lorraine from France.

You're exaggerating the German position and their strength, even if they had won.

France would probably become a monarchy again - the Republic would no doubt fall, and given French politics, that's the logical conclusion. Bourbons would probably get another shot at it.

Italy would not have stuck with them long-term. There's a reason why they joined the Allies in 1915.

Hitler would still go into politics. What we know about his beliefs, he had them long before the war. He would just be the leader of a tiny nutjob party instead of a big nutjob party.

France starting the next round would be likely, as noted previously.

RDV, even Germany has limits on how strong they could be. And with regards to economy, they were only better than the Brits in a few ways. They really never had economic control of Europe, either - nor would they want it.

WW2 only made it obvious that the US was a superpower - that status had been predicted long before then.

With no long WW1, a USSR happening is pretty unlikely. Some sort of revolts and reform, yes - but a communist revolution, no.