FillyofDelphi
Banned
Russia and Germany being very complimentary economically helps them in the lead-up to the war yet also probably bites them in the back in the aftermath of losing a world war - neither side is very diversified economy, designed to work well without the other part.
It would also add to the perceived indispensability of strong control over Poland, since it provides the vital two way pipeline that keeps the virtuous cycle of trade growing. It creates a pressure point that A-H and friends can keep contingencies to press on to try to undermine the power of their rival power block if they're starting to feel threatened, which as I mused earlier could very well be the powder keg that blows into the showdown between the alliances.
Though, if such a war did break out and Russo-German bloc loses, that would create disastrous economic shock that no doubt sends both nations spinning into a depression, even greater than the general post-war hardships. It'd be like the Great Depression in the US, perhaps, with a crisis of localized overproduction meaning wheat rotting in the fields of Russia in harvested and farms collapsing into foreclosure while Germans starve and huge industrial facilities sit idle for lack of demand, leading to militancy that's highly concentrated among the urban laboring/manufacturing class.
Red Ruhr Revolution?
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