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As the title says. In OTL the answer is obviously no but France and Russia made a very poor start to the war which placed them in a bad position. If they were able to do better could this change? Lets say in the west that the French meet and stalemate the Germans in Belgium while in the east Rennenkampf is replaced with someone more competent (Brusilov?) and Hindenburgs counterattack fails. By the end of 1914 the frontline runs through Belgium while Russia has occupied all of East Prussia. Perhaps they do better against the Austro-Hungarians as well. Can they go on to win or can the Central Powers recover?