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The Russian/Soviets were the last colonial power standing. The lack of rights probably had a lot to do with it Amusingly, the Finns always had greater rights than the Russians under the Romanovs

Why not? Italy joined the Triple alliance to check France. Italy will fight Austria for the Italian lands or France for the Mediterranean. She cares only who will win. Have Germany and Austria do better in the first months of the war and Italy could easily join Same with Romania

Why would Britain ally with Germany. What would Britain offer the Germans Reality would be, the British would ally with France and Russia for the same reasons she does our time

Russia and Germany rule the continent. No one would defund them as Austria and France would last three weeks against them With control of the continent, Britain is helpless against them.

Ok let's go through this one more time: 1) Your assertion that the Nikolai was an awful ship is refuted by its ability to take a far greater pounding at Tsushima than the Japanese could deliver in 1895. The same is true of the Nakhimlov 2) The Japanese do not have the ability to blockade...

Sorry to have taken so long to get back to you but there are several problems with your plans Describing the Nikolai as "awful" is a bit much. The ship would take a pounding at Tsushima including a 12 inch shell and two 8 inch shells and still stood. inn 1895, the Japanese have nothing of...

I don' see the debate here. The Russians are penned up and have free reign of the ocean. They are in position to interfere with any effort to resupply the Japanese army. Japan cannot force a fleet engagement and reinforcements are readily available. The Russians made some crucial mistakes...

The parties involved disagree. The Russians have no intention of fighting a fleet engagement. Their plan is to attack the Japanese transports resupplying the mainland army. Forced into a convoy protection role, the Japanese would be forced to divide their forces and be saddled with slow...

It wouldn't need much editing. First he would talk about how Austria had sent an outrageous ultimatum Then, how Serbia had gone beyond reason and offered to essentially meet all of Austria's demands How Austria had rejected that response and refused any offer of settlements. Indeed how Austria...

Round two during the American civil war? If Mexico is strong enough to resist America in 1848, then it will be intervening in the American civil war It might totally change things. America breaks apart and Central America reunites

Neither Willy or Nicky wanted or expected war. They couldn't stop it because Franz Joseph wanted war. It was Franz Joseph who: sent the ultimatum rejected the response rejected all settlement offers made no settlement offers of his own ordered mobilization declared war on Serbia...

Is it one or two armies? Which ones? And where are you putting them? and after they move, what do you do if France then strikes? The problem with these East first threads is that there is no German Eastern plan. Its a vague concept that we make up here. Are we sending four, five or six...

And this is Otl when the Germans clearly were going west and Joffre thought a preemptive attack the best defense. The Russians honor their comitments to attack East Prussia and draw off the Germans In a German East scenario, all that changes. Joffre has to realign his troops and the Russians...