Dual Entente

This timeline I am about to write is one in which Russia aligns with neither France or Britain.
This leads to the Central Powers fighting only Russia and Serbia, ultimatley leading to a Russian surrender in 1915 following the August Revolution in which the Bolshevicks are crushed and Russia becomes anti-communist.
With the Russian surrender the.borders are redrawn ceding vast amounts of land to Austria-Hungary and Germany while Serbia becomes am Austrian puppet.
What does this do to the rest of the world? Should I persue it as a timeline?
 

Cook

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This leads to the Central Powers fighting only Russia and Serbia...
A Russia not allied with France would have been considerably weaker; prior to World War One Russia benefitted from French strategic loans as part of their alliance that allowed the Russians to signifigantly upgrade their railway network, essential for mobilising the army and sustaining it in the field, as well as strategic industries.

Not only would they have been weaker, they'd have known they were weaker and in no position to challenge Austria-Hungary and Germany; they'd have remained on the sidelines, condeming the Habsburgs but otherwise allowing them a free hand in the Balkans, just as they had during the Bosnian crisis in 1909.
 
A Russia not allied with France would have been considerably weaker; prior to World War One Russia benefitted from French strategic loans as part of their alliance that allowed the Russians to signifigantly upgrade their railway network, essential for mobilising the army and sustaining it in the field, as well as strategic industries.

Not only would they have been weaker, they'd have known they were weaker and in no position to challenge Austria-Hungary and Germany; they'd have remained on the sidelines, condeming the Habsburgs but otherwise allowing them a free hand in the Balkans, just as they had during the Bosnian crisis in 1909.

So basicaly an Austro-Serbian War. You think the Ottomans and Austrians would clash sometime after that?
 

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So basicaly an Austro-Serbian War. You think the Ottomans and Austrians would clash sometime after that?
You’d probably see another round of fighting over the spoils of Serbia involving the other Balkan states rather than the Ottoman Empire, the Turks had effectively ceased to be a player in the Balkans by then. The Habsburg Empire was also facing internal upheavals that even a successful war against Serbia would not long put off and might even accelerate, and they’d also have Italian irredentism to deal with.
 
You’d probably see another round of fighting over the spoils of Serbia involving the other Balkan states rather than the Ottoman Empire, the Turks had effectively ceased to be a player in the Balkans by then. The Habsburg Empire was also facing internal upheavals that even a successful war against Serbia would not long put off and might even accelerate, and they’d also have Italian irredentism to deal with.

So Serbia falls, Austria collapses around 1919, Germany moves in annexes Czechslovakia, Austria, Galicia, and Hungary (plus trannsylvania), while OTL Yugoslavia and some other areas are taken by the Balkan states, likely leading to a full blown Balkan War with either Italy, France, or Britain moving in to break it up. Turkey possibly takes some pieces of land.
 
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