Plausibility Check: Whites Win the Civil war

I was thinking about the russian civil war, and i was wondering:

Was it plausible for the Whites to win the civil war?

If so, how?
 
One reason I think that whites lost was because they refused to recognize the various breakaway nations and thus had to deal with them as well as with the reds where as the reds officially recognized the sovereignty of the various Post war nations. However I'm not sure about the accuracy of all that.
 

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The reasons I always state in these threads;

1. The Whites lacked popular support. Without the peasants they can't win.
2. The White Generals could not cooperate
3. The Whites did not recognize breakaway nations like Poland, Finland, the Baltic Nations etc. They gained no support from Russia's neighbors. Instead the new nations conisidered the Whites as much an enemy as the Reds.
4. The double edged sword of foreign intervention. The allied powers had no interests in doing anything useful in Russia, and only gave the Whites a bad name for being foreigners.
 
Whites were to Reds as Crown Loyalists were to Mike Stearn in 1632-verse. Their only uniting ideology was "what we don't like about Commies". And it doesn't really help in civil war.

IMHO Whites lost chances of winning sometimes in Autumn 1918, when leadership in anti-Communist alliance went from Right SR fraction (who represented rich farmers and burghers) to rightist military.
 
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