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When Russia and Japan went to war in 1904, they each had active alliances with France and Britain respectively. In OT the two decided they did not want to fight one another and they kept out of it, but what if the two had made good on their alliances and triggered a global war because of it? Who would the likely victor be? What other great powers (Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and United States) would get involved? What about other less influential nations like the Ottoman empire, Denmark, Sweden-Norway, Greece, and China? What sort of chain reaction could this cause?
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