AHC: Triple Entente of Britain, Germany and Russia for a decade+ of 20th century

raharris1973

Gone Fishin'
Donor
Monthly Donor
Here's the challenge, have Britain, Germany and Russia all come to an accommodation of their interests and form a coalesce on top tier questions of global policy (a formal alliance commitment is not required). Any PoD after 1871 is permitted, but this alternate "Triple Entente" needs to exist for part of the 20th century at least.
 

CaliGuy

Banned
Have German Kaiser Wilhelm II choose Russia over Austria-Hungary in 1890. Then, have WWI break out in the mid-1910s with the sides being Germany + Russia + Serbia + Montenegro vs. Austria-Hungary + France + Britain (Italy and Romania join in on the Russo-German side late in the war). After the Russo-German alliance wins WWI in the East while achieving a stalemate in the West, the Russo-German alliance is allowed by France and Britain to dismember and partition Austria-Hungary.

Eventually, seeing World War I as destroying the balance of power in Europe, Britain and France decide that it is better to let bygones be bygones and to ally with Germany and Russia in order to help maintain peace and stability in Europe and abroad.

There--how exactly was that? :)
 
There'd need to be some sort of rival alliance that threatens all three. The obvious choice is some sort of French-strengthened China Axis.
 
As mentioned before, Germany fails to come to an arrangement with Austria Hungary and ends up with Russia after the break up of the Kaiserbund. France ends up annoying Britain much more after Fashoda and the alt-WW1 comes early (1906?) with France and Austria against Germany and later Russia. Russia is much weaker in 1906 (after just losing to Japan who has also signed a treaty with France in place of Britain).

Although the battleship race with Germany is still a thing up to 1906, the British have the only Dreadnoughts as Germany finds it hard to find the resources to build a navy and to beat France and Austria with the dead weight of Russia holding her back. As a result UK is much more pro-German and anti-French.

The USA continues to trade with France during the war. The British continue to trade with Germany. A misunderstanding between British and French ships over neutral merchantmen leads to a French cruiser sinking a British registered tanker (who probably was carrying contraband). The UK retaliates by declaring war on France and promptly blockading American trade.

Eventually this ends up with a alt-Lusitania event and the USA enters the war on the side of the French.

After much battleship porn and Canadian misadventures the German-Russia-Britain axis wins the war which ends with the collapse of France and a Status Quo Ante peace in America. To combat the growing strength of the American armed forces the alliance of convenience during the war evolves into a more stable "entente" in the post war years.
 
Top