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To avoid misunderstandings, "success" doesn't just refer to short-term military victory. It means that Germany is better off after the war than it was before. Additionally, "WWI" means OTL WWI. Samll changes are allowed, but no substantially different alliances such as pro-German Russia or France. I'm having a hard time thinking of how Germany could accomplish that without the help of ASB's.

If Germany manages to annex or turn into vassals most of Central Europe, it becomes a second Austria-Hungary. The struggle of holding their empire together will compensate any advantage their increase in territory will yield.

Weakening France will only trigger French revanchism. Of course France will be unable to attack Germany on its own, but it already wasn't before WWI, and the more pissed off they are with the result of WWI, the more likely they are to join any Anti-German coalition that ever wioll form.

Russia may loose territory, but they'll have plenty of it left, so it will more or less turn from a healthy bear that was currently not German-friendly to a wounded bear that will never ever become German-friendly again.

Britain will stay more or less unharmed with no unmentionable sea mammal.

So all in all, the two front war thread will remain, perhaps even get worse.

Colonies will make the Germans tap on their backs, but they also require lots of ressources, and the Entente will be clever enough not to give them the ones that actually produce a profit.

So wherever I go, I see lots of pyrrhic virtories but no accomplishments that that will give Germany anything but trouble in the long term.

Can you find a scenario where I'm proven wrong?
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