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I'm certain that this has been done before. Not sure if this is better here or in After 1900 due to the late 1890s PoD
Been reading The Great War in England in 1897 on and off for a little while. If you haven't heard of it (doubtful in these parts) it's a novel from 1894 that depicts Britain being invaded by an alliance of France and the Russian Empire. Britain is backed up by an alliance of Central European powers, including Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary.
So, with a PoD no earlier than 1894, find a way to bring about the rise of a Franco-Russian and an Anglo-German-Austro-Hungarian-Italian alliance. Would such alliances be plausible?
Where do the Ottomans fall in this alternate European order? In the novel, despite major fighting in the Mediterranean, Turkey is depicted as largely irrelevant; the Russians are able to secretly convert Eastern Orthodox monasteries on Mount Athos into a major naval base, and the Sick Man of Europe is depicted as too feeble to do anything about it. I suspect that things would be considerably different in reality, considering how the Turks performed in WW1 and the centuries of Russo-Turkish antagonism. I would bet that in this scenario, Turkey joins the Anglo-German alliance for many of the same reasons as they joined the Central Powers IOTL. What of the rest of Europe? Who do non-European powers like America and Japan lean towards (I would think both would lean toward Britain as IOTL, but still)?
Assuming WWI still breaks out in the mid-1910s, how does the war go? I would think that the situation is a bit more “even” than OTL, as while Germany and Austria-Hungary are are still hemmed in to the East and West by France and Russia, their alliance with Italy and Britain frees up their southern flank and gives them a naval advantage. Is a French invasion of Britain probable, or is the inverse more likely?
Been reading The Great War in England in 1897 on and off for a little while. If you haven't heard of it (doubtful in these parts) it's a novel from 1894 that depicts Britain being invaded by an alliance of France and the Russian Empire. Britain is backed up by an alliance of Central European powers, including Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary.
So, with a PoD no earlier than 1894, find a way to bring about the rise of a Franco-Russian and an Anglo-German-Austro-Hungarian-Italian alliance. Would such alliances be plausible?
Where do the Ottomans fall in this alternate European order? In the novel, despite major fighting in the Mediterranean, Turkey is depicted as largely irrelevant; the Russians are able to secretly convert Eastern Orthodox monasteries on Mount Athos into a major naval base, and the Sick Man of Europe is depicted as too feeble to do anything about it. I suspect that things would be considerably different in reality, considering how the Turks performed in WW1 and the centuries of Russo-Turkish antagonism. I would bet that in this scenario, Turkey joins the Anglo-German alliance for many of the same reasons as they joined the Central Powers IOTL. What of the rest of Europe? Who do non-European powers like America and Japan lean towards (I would think both would lean toward Britain as IOTL, but still)?
Assuming WWI still breaks out in the mid-1910s, how does the war go? I would think that the situation is a bit more “even” than OTL, as while Germany and Austria-Hungary are are still hemmed in to the East and West by France and Russia, their alliance with Italy and Britain frees up their southern flank and gives them a naval advantage. Is a French invasion of Britain probable, or is the inverse more likely?
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