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No WW1, FF rises to the throne and breaks the Magyar nobility's lock on power in Hungary. Despite being an arch-conservative he realized he couldn't roll back the Ausgleich, but he could change the electoral dynamics in Hungary. He never supported a federalized state, but by at least changing one of the damaging aspects of the state like the behavior and policy of the Hungarians, while keeping his peacenik foreign policy A-H has a better shot of surviving. Then it depends on butterflies, but if things continue to go well then they could survive as a major European power.