Plausability Check: The Coming Conquest of England (the German Dreams)

So in this book (written in 1907) Russia, Germany, and France unite against the UK in a World War analog. While Russia marches on india the Franco-German navy takes on the RN and takes control of the med, allowing the Russians more trade and eventually the RN is overcome and england is defeated.

Now, i know this is at least a 50/50 chance of succeeding, if that;
but what do you guys think, is at least plausible?

note: some of the things i say in future posts might not be cannon in the book, because i read it in german and i'm not that good at the language yet (tho i am trying)
 
The idea of Russia marching on India in 1907 makes Sealion look like a kindergarten swimming lesson. Not only are Russian rail heads about 2,000 miles from India, but the Himilayas are simply impossible. There's just no way. Russia may as well invade Antarctica.

Faced with a Franco-German naval assault, I would want to consider British options more carefully before deciding what was best. Gut hunch is that Britain must 'Copenhagen' one opponent with the full strength of the British navy. If the German navy, then an all-out army-navy assault on the North Sea bases to destroy the High Seas Fleet in port before it can rendezvous with the French fleet.
 
Russia's a non starter. They're still trying to recover from the loss of the war with Japan. The Tzar is also desperately trying to hold on to power and is renaging of the new Russian constitution. Right now the Russian Navy barely exists as it ships are either on the bottom of the sea or working up with their new Japanese crews.

The French ships have been shown to be useless by the Battle of Tsushima (French built Russian ships Vs British built Japanese).

The German ships are untested and the German Navy has only recently become more than a coast defence force, so they are still working out how to be a proper navy.

The Royal Navy has ships that have been proven by the Japanese to be execelent designs, and have the most modern Battleship in the world, HMS Dreadnaught. The RN is also larger than the next 2 Navies combined and has hundreds of years of tradition and experience to draw on. The British Mediteranien Fleet is likely to engaude and destroy the French Navy on the way to Join up with the Grand Fleet and deal with the Germans.

In short this is almost as impossible as Sealion.
 
I have to agree with Russia, them invading India is pure ASB. After their loss in the Russo-Japanese War (assuming it still happens ITTL), Russia would have been lucky to successfully make raids into British occupied Afghanistan. If the RJW never happens, they might do better in the stan, but they'll still have a devil of a time invading, considering the mountainous terrain.

Plus, this ATL WWI would probably never happen in the first place. The alliances are just to uneven for anyone to want to fight a war. IOTL the Alliances in Europe were more or less balanced. Who's Britain going to ally with, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Italy? Considering the geopolitical situation, Britain would have no allies. Heck, considering the geopolitical situation, this alliance would not have worked out.

Lets say Bismark bury's the hatchet with Napoleon III, enters into an alliance with France, and avoids the Franco Prussian War. Why would Germany need to ally with Russia? The threat of a two front war is never there. What would happen is a Russo-British Alliance maybe, but unless Britain can get more allies, there is no way Britain would enter into war with the odds so against them.

In short, from the info you've given, this book/scenario is pretty much implausible/impossible.
 
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