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What if, sometime in the first decade of the twentieth century or early in the second decade, Germany had attempted a rapprochement with Russia by offering to split the Austro-Hungarian Empire? The Germans receive Austria and Czechia, the rest to be divided between German and Russian spheres of influence in accordance with Russia's longstanding ambitions in southeastern Europe and the Balkans. A non-aggression agreement is also signed. Germany is now free, as in 1870 and OTL 1940, of the threat of a two front war. How would WW1 play out with just Germany vs the Anglo-French? If France does fall, do the British stay in? If they do, how keen on Barbarossa would the German leadership be? What would the US do?
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