AHC: wank Germany and Russia without screwing Poland

I've heard it said that whether it's a Germanywank or a Russiawank, the outcome is always a Polandscrew. Wank them both without screwing over Poland. Bonus points if you also wank Poland in the process.
 

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I've heard it said that whether it's a Germanywank or a Russiawank, the outcome is always a Polandscrew. Wank them both without screwing over Poland. Bonus points if you also wank Poland in the process.
Maintain the Russo-German Bund minus Austria instead of having Germany pick Austria once the Dreikaiserbund fell apart. Then have Russia and Germany divide up Austria and Russia then unify Polish territories it has as a special administrative area and find a way to divide up the Ukrainian and Polish areas fairly in Galicia. Germany then is strengthened by the Austrian half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire minus Galicia, while Hungary becomes an independent kingdom, with Russia getting Galicia and a sphere of influence in the Balkans, while Hungary is allied/subordinated to Germany and Russia. Such a Russo-German alliance cannot be challenged by the Italian/French/British Entente.
 
This goes beyond 1900 but my first inclination is that the Duchy of Warsaw would survive versus being partitioned, although it takes a chain of seemingly slight departures, perhaps Augustus takes the throne, as a friend of Prussia he navigates Poland to a neutral buffer and gains British support in securing a place at once holding Russia and Prussia together yet separated by this new neutral. Prussia has a more secure eastern border and less to fear from Russia, Russia gets the same as regards Prussia plus another Slavic nation, Poland benefits from trade between the two and itself industrializes, Prussia goes on to act within unifying Germany and Russia is less focused on affairs beyond the Balkans, still wars and alliances and empires to rise or fall.
 

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You need Poland in the boat as a junor partner and/or a buffer state that Russia and Germany agree to maintain - and even then it's hard.
 
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