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So, I was recently pondering about the UN, and I got around to thinking about how, at some points, the UN was basically a place for the US and USSR to fight the Cold War. Then I realized how this situation has quite a few things in common with the Europe of the Late Victorian Era. The Great Powers had an intricate system of alliances and enemies, and there were numerous small international incidents between them that underscored the looming threat of a massive, disastrous war.

So lets take that to a logical conclusion. There were in OTL several all-powers congresses to resolve the international scene. What if there is eventually a decision among the Great Powers that the threat of War could be best avoided by some kind of massive pan-European organization-by no means an EU-type attempt at semi-unification, but something like a Leauge of Nations/Congress of Berlin hybrid (indeed, a good scenario might be that Congress deciding never to go into recess) where representatives of all the powers of Europe got together to yell at each other about how their God-give rights to get tied down in endless wars in the African desert were being denied. This could happen sometime in the late 1870s/early 80s.

Is such a scenario plausible? If so, what effect would it have on history?
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