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Based on the evidence, I can be convinced that the factors are there to make a peace possible. However I think that to be successful any...

Most threads and discussions regarding alternative endings to the First World War revolve around either a quick, decisive victory in...

I cannot really see Russia being happy with the Ottomans in their south and France and Austria-Hungary have been closely connected to...

"...at the outset of the crisis, France was, unequivocally, the primary naval power of the four major combatants. Germany had sixteen...

Especially when they are the same people who created the spigot.

"...and just like that, four of Europe's great powers were at war. A British offer to mediate was rejected on March 8th by Paris, which...

That's a correct assumption Hey another MS&T enjoyer! There are dozens of us, dozens! (Working through "Into the Narrowdark" right now)...

Since the festivities are about to kick off, I went back through some of the old updates detailing the war's build-up, and found this...

This was the character that popped into my head every time she came up! I am glad it was intentional. Does that make Stephane Clement...

Great American War lasted three years and two months. I'm thinking this war lasts longer than that but not by much. This war also...

My thinking was there was no formal pressure on the court, but enough informal pressure that it looks fixed to an outside observer They...

"...as late as the evening of February 28th, 1919, it still seemed unlikely that Germany would attack Austria and Belgium over the...

In my opinion, Francis and Metternich should have been less orthodox and more pragmatic in the sense of knowing the peace with Prussia...

It stopped being majority Manchu in around 1900. In the late 1800s the Qing dynasty opened it up to Han Chinese immigration to counter...

It's definitely possible for "Manchuria" to be independent in the sense that it's run by the Chinese Communists while the rest of China...