Alternate World War 1: French and Germanic changes

I read recently that, if the nineteenth and twentieth centuries had evolved differently, France could have ended up siding with Austro-Hungary during the First World War and Germany with Britain and Russia.

So, building off of that...

This is probably at least slightly ASB, but let's just assume that France and Germany keep their systems of government and everything else the same, but end up on the opposite sides in WWI from in true history. From this scenario, I have some questions:

Which powers would Italy most likely have sided with?

Would Britain and Germany have both invaded mainland France during this alternate First World War?

Which side would most likely have won in the conflict, and what reparations would have been demanded?
 
So you want to have Germany take France's place in the entente?
Watch as the whole of europe gets in line to lick the boots of this alliance.
 

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So you want to have Germany take France's place in the entente?
Watch as the whole of europe gets in line to lick the boots of this alliance.
Would Germany annex the entire Austria-Hungarian empire, or just Austria and Bohemia?

Would Russia just annex Constantinople, or would it annex Armenia and Bulgaria too?

Would Britain take all of France's colonies or only 90% of them?
 
Would Germany annex the entire Austria-Hungarian empire, or just Austria and Bohemia?

Would Russia just annex Constantinople, or would it annex Armenia and Bulgaria too?

Would Britain take all of France's colonies or only 90% of them?
The Germans weren't all that land hungry, they will likely force some border adjustments on France and take the German lands from Austria (Including bohemia-moravia and Austrian silesia) otherwise they are happy with carving out puppets

Russia would take the Austrian partition and if they can get away with it enough land to have an uninterrupted land border with either side of the straits as well the straits themselves, making the black sea a Russian lake.

I'm not entirely sure what the British will want but given that they are the British they will likely take every profitable and strategically useful colony.

And Italy will get what ever their new masters give them.


This is of course assuming the other alliance is ran by complete and utter fools stupid enough to go to war against these three behemoths to begin with.
 
If a Anglo-German-Russian alliance existed then I can cofidently say there will be no war, France its stupid they aren't led by a emperor with a inferiority complex they won't seek war with Germany until the alliances favour them, more likely they would either isolationist and focus on their colonies and watching the continent or more likely to make a deal with Germany. As for Austria Hungary well if the Germans had abandoned them for Russia then they'd be more internally focused just like the French. But the biggest loser is the Japanese I would expect the Germans to jump in with the Russian if they came to blows with Russia.
 
British foreign policy for over three centuries has been based on two basic guidelines: No state must become hegemonic on the European Continent and the sea lanes must remain open to British trade at all costs.

Pre-war Germany, like Napoleonic France a century before, was a threat to these long-standing policy aims.

Thus it is hard to imagine a timeline on which the British would back Germany becoming hegemonic on the European continent and consequently closing it off to British trade. You would need to alter the very nature of these governments to make their foreign policy aims compatible with each other, and turn France into the protectionist up-and-coming industrial power in continental Europe rather than Germany.

You'd have to change so many things, such a world would look mind-boggingly different by 1914 to what it looked like in our timeline.

I can imagine Wilhelm II's Germany allied to Russia, but not to Britain without major changes in both countries.
 
British foreign policy for over three centuries has been based on two basic guidelines: No state must become hegemonic on the European Continent and the sea lanes must remain open to British trade at all costs.

Pre-war Germany, like Napoleonic France a century before, was a threat to these long-standing policy aims.

Thus it is hard to imagine a timeline on which the British would back Germany becoming hegemonic on the European continent and consequently closing it off to British trade. You would need to alter the very nature of these governments to make their foreign policy aims compatible with each other, and turn France into the protectionist up-and-coming industrial power in continental Europe rather than Germany.

You'd have to change so many things, such a world would look mind-boggingly different by 1914 to what it looked like in our timeline.

I can imagine Wilhelm II's Germany allied to Russia, but not to Britain without major changes in both countries.
Hardly have to change anything because in ww1 the British did join what appeared to be the stronger alliance otl and all you need is someone in Britain to realise the balance of power policy was obsolete.
By the time of ww1 Europe had two foreseeable options, German dominance or russian dominance.
Joke was on them because it turned out to be secret option C American dominance
 
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