Alternate WWI: ver. 2

Inspired by this thread.
Same premise of making a WWI with alternate alliances, except necessitating the following:
1. a Russo-Japanese conflict
2. a Japo-American conflict
3. an Anglo-Japanese conflict
4. a Japanese defeat.
Go wild. Go crazy. POD is 1885.
EDIT: some more things added.
 
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My timeline Dices and Rivers has that.

EDIT: Uh oh, the PODs I use are before the given date.

FIX: I was thinking if Friedrich III survives and renews the Reinsurance treaty, Then I think that there would be some kind of Agreement between Austria-Hungary and Russia about the Balkans. This evolves into a renewed Dreikaiserbund. The Central Powers are Russia, Austria-Hungary and Germany, while the Entente are the British, French, Italians (But later on), the Ottoman Empire (correct me if I'm wrong, but with a "large Russo-German-Habsburg threat" Britain might prop up the Ottomans, though I may consider that they might be going for some landgrab there, so no alliance with them). France might get Boulanger, France then makes the Carlists win in Spain, and with (this is allowed) China reforming under Guangxu and with the Central Powers willing to support China, voila! Anglo-Japanese Pact. So, with the Entente support Spain in the Spanish-American War, then you get a revanchist America (losing the war but fortunately with a status quo ante bellum but with reparations you can't really defeat the USA that easily). A close US-CP cooperation is possible, since OTL the Russian Empire and the US had cordial relations, esp. after 1861. This makes the US bent on the destruction of the Entente (the "Special Relationship is destroyed), and with the CP Blockaded even American ships (though neutral) are bombarded. This causes a very,very angry USA to declared war on the Entente. Voila! Japanese defeat. The peace will be very hard on the Entente. The Japo-American Conflict is assured and the Japanese defeat is inevitable. :)
 
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By the way, what's everyone's opinion on stronger Russo-American relations during the earlier part of the 20th century? Possible or no?
 
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