I think this Scenario is, to be fully honest, not so good.
Fully agree with this to be honest. It's downright absurd.
Also I find the choices of some of the protagonists to be... questionnable. Nicholas II is arguably the least problematic of the four.
Nicolas II was never competent, and while there are debates on if he was well intentioned or not (in my opinion he wasn't) nobody can deny that he was single handidly responsible for causing the Russian Revolution (and thus ALSO the Bolshevik Revolution), and escalating the Balkan Crisis to the point of WW1 becouse he couldn't comprehend the fact that maybe his shitty little ally that collapsed in half a year wasn't worth a massive war with his 2 major neighbors.
I think that's a bit harsh to blame everything on him. There is no denying that Nicholas II shares part of the blame sure: when you're in the position he was, you can't avoid it. Plus as nice as he's acknowledged to have been by most, he had none of the qualities needed to be Tsar.
But the Russian Revolution had less to do with Nicky himself and more the way the Tsarist regime worked. Past a certain point, such a level of autocratic government is bound to fail if you don't get the right man for the job. Nicholas II gets the blame because he was the wrong man at the wrong time, but it could have been someone else.
The escalation of the Balkan crisis is also forgetting the place was litterally nicknamed "the gunpowder of Europe" at one point and for good reasons. As well as some of the other powers at play like the Black Hand, Franz Joseph or Kaiser Willy...
Monsieur Z is one of the worse Alternate History YouTubers, like not WhatifAlthist levels, but yeah. He wrote a book which is mostly scrubbed from his channel called "Uncle Sam" or something like that where it's just him talking about his right winged beliefs.
Yeah when I saw the name I vaguely remembered hearing about this guy in a not so nice fashion...
Yeah. Nick II was a bumbling idiot, and the fact that he was able to hold onto the imperial Russian throne for slightly over 20 years is nothing of a miracle.
He was able to hold on to the throne for so long because he did not have any truly major crisis to deal with before WWI. Or at least, not ones on the "regime-crumbling" level that the War proved to be for Russia.
Until that point, his inadequacies were relatively harmless. He still wasn't a great ruler and there are a few questionnable episodes where his responsibility is debated (the thing with Nicky is that because he was so incompetent, blaming his councilors has actually some merit...), but he was mostly content letting the government to others and spending time with his family.