alternatehistory.com

I am thinking the PoD is 1912, when the powers witness the Ottomans get beaten with surprising haste by the Balkan League.

Thinking the complete downfall of the empire is fast approaching, in Asia as well as Africa and Europe, one of the three Entente powers, I do no care which, Britain, France or Russia, decide they must quickly make an arrangement with their Entente partners to get their "fair share", and soon move ships and troops to take effective control of it, prompting the others to do so also.

I figure the Sykes-Picot Sazanov lines more or less cover each of the Entente powers' important equities and so are adopted.

What does the campaign of partition in 1912 and 1913 end up looking like?

Does the assault on the Ottomans make the situation for Bulgaria a little better in the 2nd Balkan War?

How would the Entente administration of the Arab lands differ from OTL since it is occurring in pre "Wilsonian", pre League of Nations times?

Indeed would Wilson disapprove and how much?

Is this more likely to butterfly Sarajevo and significantly delay or stop WWI, or cause the Germans to start WWI right then and there, with Berlin pissed about losing the Ottoman market and anticipating that the Reich and Austria Hungary are next on the Entente's menu?
Top