DBWI Germany fully backs Austria-Hungary during Bosnian crisis

What would have happened if the Germans had just issued a blank check to support the Austro-Hungarian government after the heir to the throne was killed in Bosnia in 1914?
 
What would have happened if the Germans had just issued a blank check to support the Austro-Hungarian government after the heir to the throne was killed in Bosnia in 1914?

Looking at the political situation of the time, we will have the first great war starting three years earlier, so instead of the internal crisis between Wien and Budapest it will be another idiocy in the Balkans to start the massacre.
Maybe in 14, Germany will have much more possibility to win the war with an A-H that's not in a state of civil war, a slightly less industrializated Russia and an Italy that at least will remain neutral leaning towards them.
The wild card are the Ottomans, at the time they are not become a German appendix in all but name, so there is the possibility that if the Entente don't do anything of extremely stupid they will remain neutral.
 
Well anything that starts at the balkans and earlier will mean that A-H probably means that FJ is still ruling and he is easily manipulated into war. So instead A-H sorting out its domestic problems it will be an active player. A funny fact that the reason of the Great war was in a country that was the only Great Power that did not even participate in it. I believe without staying out of the mess and without the "Act of Federation of 1918" the Monarchy would have dissolved soon. What would Europe look today if the United Danubian Empire did not exist. Even today it remains the only Monarchy in Europe. Millions of jews have fled to the UDE in the 1930and40s to flee from Persecution in so many lands. Only the Kingdom of Israel has a higher percentage of jews living within its boundary. THE fact that many higher educated jews stayed in or came to the UDE, Szilard, Teller, Einstein, Meitner (not all jews of course ;)) and many others pushed A-H to the top of science - where it remains today. THE WIT, the Budapest University, .... nameless others .

Germany backing A-H would have led to an even worse 20th century than OTL. At Least A-H remained forever a haven of peace freedom and prosperity - sunlike so many otehr countries...

I am looking forward to the first manned mars landing in three weeks. Teh rRed Planed will become Red Green Blue soon :)
 
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