Is this ASB?

How to keep Dreikaiserbund alive

I suggest you look at the era from the POV of the three emperors. The league was an echo of the anti-French Holy Alliance. Rather than concentrating on the Balkans and foreign policy, if you look at the motives of the men concerned, they feared for their positions in the face of radical ideas and powers.

Why not be dramatic and organize a Marxist Revolution in 1880s England? That would make the emperors cling to one another for support. Certainly it was what Marx expected [d.1883].
 

abc123

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I suggest you look at the era from the POV of the three emperors. The league was an echo of the anti-French Holy Alliance. Rather than concentrating on the Balkans and foreign policy, if you look at the motives of the men concerned, they feared for their positions in the face of radical ideas and powers.

Why not be dramatic and organize a Marxist Revolution in 1880s England? That would make the emperors cling to one another for support. Certainly it was what Marx expected [d.1883].

Well, certainly such ideas ( Dreikaiserbund as a defence against liberalism and radicalism ) will have a place in thinking of ruling circles in Germany, A-H and Russia.
 

abc123

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Might work, I'm not sure about an Austrian base in Albania though. And especially Serbia getting most of Macedonia would not go home well with the Bulgarians (and the Greeks would not like Bulgaria getting a majority of Thrace). So pressure from St. Petersburg and Berlin is necessary.

On getting rid of Alex III, have his brother Nicholas survive, that would butterfly away the disastrous governments of OTL's Alex III and Nicky II. However we don't know if an ATL Nicholas II would be any better.

This would probably push Italy into an alliance with France.

Well, division of Macedonia will be closely watched by A-H and Russia, so that they will enforce solution. The main thing is that A-H and Russia constitute them selves as a inpartial mediators for Balkans. So there will be enough pressure on all parties.

Well, Nicky II is a simpatic caracter for me, so I will keep him alive. IMO,it isn't problem in his personality, problem is his bad preparation for position of ruler, and the fact that he suceeded THE BIG AUTOCRAT Alex III.
 

abc123

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So, let we begin.


The origins of Triple Alliance are very humble. It all started in a backward province of Ottoman Empire- in Herzegovina.
The reforms announced by the Turkish Sultan Abdulmecid I involving new rights for Christian subjects, a new basis for army conscription, and an end to the much-hated system of tax-farming, were either resisted or ignored by the powerful Bosnian landowners. They frequently resorted to more repressive measures against their Christian subjects. The tax burden on Christian peasants constantly increased.
On June 19, 1875 the Catholics in the Gabela and Hrasno districts of lower Herzegovina, ignited by overtaxing, rebelled against the Ottoman authorities under the leadership of don Ivan Musić. An orthodox uprising (popularly known as Nevesinje gun or Невесињска пушка) started on July 9, around the village of town Nevesinje in eastern Herzegovina. Subsequently, a general uprising of the entire Christian population in Bosnia and Herzegovina ensued. More than 150,000 people took refuge in Croatia. The Ottoman armed response came both from government troops under the recently appointed Bosnian governor and from the local landowners and their own irregular troops. The attempts to suppress the uprising proved unsuccessful.

The uprising get big simpaties in neighbouring countries, Croatia ( in that time a part of Austria- Hungary ), Principality of Serbia and Principalty of Montenegro. All of them had own agendas on Bosnia- Herzegovina and they all considered Bosnia- Herzegovina as part of their historic territory.
 
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