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By realistic I mean that handwavium of the Wilson Administration as part of the Allied coalition is not part of the overall potential PODs. Germany has all its naval weaknesses of OTL, the Allies have Russia the ticking Time Bomb just as per OTL. The alliance systems are the same as OTL, the war starts at the same date for the same reasons as OTL. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to find a plausible means for the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire to defeat the Allies, with defeat meaning anything from the rather extremely implausible (but theoretically possible, at least), 1914 victory to the late-stage victory in 1917-8. What kind of military-strategic changes are necessary to alter the CP War Machine such that it can at the very least win a victory akin to 1918 over the Allies? Can Germany in fact defeat the UK even if it defeats the others or would the two wind up negotiating a white peace and a genteel armistice due to mutual inability to strike each other?
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