WI Germany focuses on Russia during WW1

Russia took a long time to mobilize in the great war. So what if no schifflen plan and Germany focuses their war effrot on Russia and hides in their fortifications on the western front. France might try to flank germany by taking Belgium but then Britain would probably be neutral. Direct me to another thread if there is one.
 
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Great Britain stays out - the only reason they joined in was the invasion of Belgium. France attacks and attacks and gets gunned down. Russia starts loosing sooner. GB makes tones of money selling goods to both sides and watches helping out where it keeps the war from having a decisive winner (see English actions from Napoleonic Wars for what they should have done to keep their empire).

Seriously this is one of the things that would make Germany win WW I (avoid triggering the English entry into the war). But Kaiser Willy was just not stable enough to avoid pissing off the English....
 
Russia took a long time to mobilize in the great war. So what if no schifflen plan and Germany focuses their war effrot on Russia and hides in their fortifications on the western front. France might try to flank germany by taking Belgium but then Britain would probably be neutral. Direct me to another thread if there is one.

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=105831

This thread is pretty good, it involves a different German commander-in-chief who favours an eastern strategy
 
Great Britain stays out - the only reason they joined in was the invasion of Belgium. France attacks and attacks and gets gunned down. Russia starts loosing sooner. GB makes tones of money selling goods to both sides and watches helping out where it keeps the war from having a decisive winner (see English actions from Napoleonic Wars for what they should have done to keep their empire).

Seriously this is one of the things that would make Germany win WW I (avoid triggering the English entry into the war). But Kaiser Willy was just not stable enough to avoid pissing off the English....

Well, the truth is that the Kaiser wasn't calling the shots in Berlin. Also the British will not be selling good to the Germans, and more than likely would still enter on the side of the French and Russians.
 
Well, the truth is that the Kaiser wasn't calling the shots in Berlin.
True to an extent, he was however setting policy and his policy was driving the British to be anti-Germany. I guess what I was trying to say (badly) was that due to German policy (driven by the Kaiser) in the decades leading up to the war the British were primed to join the Entente. However even with that priming the actual trigger to get them to declare war was the invasion of Belgium, and it was highly likely without that trigger that Great Britain would have declared neutrality rather than war.

Also the British will not be selling good to the Germans, and more than likely would still enter on the side of the French and Russians.

I respectfully disagree. Without the trigger of Germany overrunning neutral states it is likely that the traditional British strategy of maintaining the balance of power in Europe would have prevailed. In that case the British would have watched who was winning and helped the other side by sale of goods/resources and or cash infusion. This is very similar to what they did in the eras of the Spanish dominance of Europe and of French dominance of Europe. They might have sold to the Germans if it looked like the French and Russians were getting the upper hand. They certainly would not have blockaded Germany so the Germans could have purchased goods from other neutral countries (South America, North America, Belgium, the Nordic countries). All by its self that would have changed the war dramatically.
 
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