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Maybe? It would have gone against his policy, but he might have seen the writing on the wall better than his subordinates. He remembered how bad the battle of Warsaw actually was, so he might well hope to spare Poland the destruction that would come from a war with Germany.

That as after the war started. Prior Hitler sought a military alliance with Poland that would put them on the level of Italy, that is an ally of equals. Hitler lamented the death of Pilsudski and viewed him as one of the great leaders of Europe and even held a funeral for him in Berlin...

Which is why there is the argument that picking a side and giving up the notion of being a powerful 3rd way in the middle being viable would have saved a lot of lives and maybe prevented the war entirely.

In hindsight that is rather obvious. Millions of lives could have been saved. At the time though it is somewhat understandable given the nominal economics of the alliances that it would appear that Germany couldn't win. After all everyone thought the Allies had the best militaries on the...

No idea, but likely a non-zero number. By ensuring less resistance and more collaboration as well as more food output then it could be a considerable number. You mean after conquest? No way they'd get allied level status. That was an option before the war, not after. It would be a...

They weren't the ones the Nazis wanted: I have a feeling had those particular people accepted they'd have strived to save Jews...but also would have been targeted for execution by the Home Army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Heads That's a big topic, but for starters consider that...

I wasn't. Just providing information for a potential what if.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboration_in_German-occupied_Poland#Political_collaboration Here were the potential leaders that the Germans contacted IOTL, but all rejected the offers. They could have still won without the Italians, but it would have been a lot harder.

LOL, no. France was just as shitty to their colonial peoples as everyone else, they just treated the upper class colonials who came to France better than average, but hardly as equals.

Might be the EU effect: educated people leaving the periphery for the industrial center in search of higher wages and better lifestyle.

Only if/when the system collapses and forces it. Society is fundamentally changed thanks to technology to go traditionalist. We'd need a dark age before we'd see a traditionalist situation. Uncle Ted was right.