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  1. What if Kaiser Wilhelm & ministers kept up the Reinsurance Treaty?

    IIRC Clark mentions that even before the treaty's cancellation the Germans already had doubts about whether the treaty was more than just symbolic in nature. Without a real effort on the German side and the French charm and money offensive still going on as IOTL, the Reassurance Treaty might...

  2. WI: The battle of Dogger Bank leads to open war between Britain and Russia?

    True but from what I've read the Germans' problem was that Russia had absolutely no interest in weakening their ties with France. Instead, the Franco-Russian alliance, while from the Russian POV not necessarily anti-German in nature, was still great leverage to negotiate with the Germans from a...

  3. Alternate development of Western music?

    Don't have music as the main medium of liturgy in church and you can possibly retard the development of polyphonic and orchestral music for quite some time. Maybe the butterflies hamper with folk music as well because the powers that be have a religious precedence against music.
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