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Here is the strategic and diplomatic challenge: Sweden joins the CP in August 1914 thanks to the Admiral Essen PoD, Italy joins the CP in May 1915 because the first PoD makes the Entente look weak enough or Germany strongarms Austria to cede Trento and Gorizia and in any case they are promised Nice, Savoy, Corsica, and Tunisia. Turkey and Bulgaria still join the CP as IOTL. The Entente still wins the war. Italy withstands the fight as well as and as long as IOTL or as Austria-Hungary, whatever you deem plausible, but please no Italy crapping in its pants and collapsing or throwing in the towel at the first significant military reversal or blockade-related economic hardship, the clichè is loathsome and wrong.

Please discuss how the Entente may net this seemingly wildly improbable victory, as well as the post-war world if you like.
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