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What can the king of Bavaria do if he loves his country too much? If he denies the deal Austria could just take Bavaria and give nothing in return...

It seems to me a fair compensation. Charles Theodore was willing to give away the Electorate of Bavaria for a third of that, granted that the Electorate of Bavaria was also only half of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814...

What about giving the lands of the kingdom of Bavaria to Austria, then create a new kingdom from Rhineland + Belgium + Luxemburg + Palatinate and giving it to the former king of Bavaria. Prussia gets what they got IOTL North of the River Ems plus the territory that was given to Hanover.

The betrayal part was not necessary, Judas didn't offer some testimony or present some proof to convict Jesus, he did not convince the Sanhedrin or the Romans, his part was unecessary for Jesus to die because everything that he did was to tell about where was Jesus and pinpoint with a kiss who...

Then Christianity must either say "don't kill yourself, unless you are Judas, Judas has a free pass" or say that suicide is not a sin. Anyway, Jesus was destined to die for the sins of humanity, but Judas was not destined to betray Jesus and even less for Judas to kill himself. Judas chose to be...

The Dinasty of Avis was much more powerful than the Braganzas, mostly because their legitimacy was not in question meanwhile the Braganzas needed support from every Portuguese class until at least the death of Philip IV, though Spain would not completely drop their claim to Portugal until the...

If that proposal was really made I doubt that Felipe would offer just a post of Governor General or Viceroy for life for the duke, just the position of Constable of Portugal is much more prestigious than that. I think that Felipe would really offer an hereditary fief in Brazil, and probably a...

Or maybe just Lazzio, but I don't think it really matters because if we assume that Napoleon is negotiating in good faith the only offer that Austria would accept is half of Italy and half of Germany. What I mean by that is that in Italy Napoleon probably will need to let the kingdom of Italy...

Those seem to be very mild terms least the way they were phrased, with the exception of the last one that I also think is not really what Austria wanted. It doesn't ask for Napoleon to leave the Papal States, or any part of Italy, it does ask for the end of the French occupation of Germany, but...

I believe that the best POD for a "centralized HRE under the Habsburgs" would be a generation earlier, I think that the seeds for the first downfall of the Habsburgs was the death of Rudolf II so early, if instead Wenceslau II died Rudolf would be able to take the throne from his nephew or at...

It seems that Netherlands is going to be the main front of this war, I think that if an allied miracle is going to happen it will be there. The best strategy IMO would be to put just enough effort on the Rhine, in Italy and Spain to defend or at least not be routed, and instead put every effort...

Alaska is easier to hide from the Spanish, that is true, but is also easier to kill you before reaching it and quite hard to leave because of ice, storms and the wind blowing in the wrong direction, incidentaly it is quite harder to survive once you are there. Chile as I said is in a region too...

This could become an Habsburg wank in fact, meanwhile France and the Protestants are so screwed ITTL... With no prospect of inheriting Bohemia or Hungary Charles doesn't need to give Ferdinand the entirety of Austria and the mainline of the Habsburgs keep both their massive domains outside of...

Too much to the north, I think that Middle of Chile or California are the options on the table as they are the places direct under the tropics and the trade winds change directions in those regions. Chile is closer to Brazil and could be reinforced easier, but at the same time it is too close...

Russia, Prussia and France are matters of the day, not of the future, the Austrians knew that both a victory of France or a victory of Russia and Prussia would present challenges as soon as the war ended.