WI Ottoman empire remained neutral in WWI

Now assuming that a neutral Ottoman Empire would bring about an Entente victory in 1916 and saves the Tsar's regime - we would have a postwar-situation where an Ottoman Empire not much differnt from what we know in 1914 would have a neighbour in the North which just becomes the Balkan-hegemon... Add to that the Russian sphere of influence in Persia.

The OE got around the war, but the post-war diplomatic situation will be interesting, still.
 
Now assuming that a neutral Ottoman Empire would bring about an Entente victory in 1916 and saves the Tsar's regime - we would have a postwar-situation where an Ottoman Empire not much differnt from what we know in 1914 would have a neighbour in the North which just becomes the Balkan-hegemon... Add to that the Russian sphere of influence in Persia.

The OE got around the war, but the post-war diplomatic situation will be interesting, still.

I'm not altogether sure they would be, though. If the war ended in 1916, Tsarist Russia would be facing its share of domestic problems in the future, and I'm not sure Austria-Hungary would have been destroyed (which was never particularly the Entente's intention). The Serbs are friendly, but they've got what they wanted; the Greeks and Romanians have no really compelling reason to adhere to Russia.
 

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I'm not altogether sure they would be, though. If the war ended in 1916, Tsarist Russia would be facing its share of domestic problems in the future, and I'm not sure Austria-Hungary would have been destroyed (which was never particularly the Entente's intention). The Serbs are friendly, but they've got what they wanted; the Greeks and Romanians have no really compelling reason to adhere to Russia.
I think Austria- Hungary would have lost the Czechs, and some territory to Serbia, Romania and Italy, but that would be all.
 
I agree that Austria-Hungary won't probably be destroyed completely, but it will still lose a lot of territory. Russia will want Galicia, Romania will probably want Transylvania and Bukovina from Hungary and Serbia would want the region around Bosnia. And Italy, whether she joins the war or not will want Trento and the Dalmatia coastline at least, I think.
 
I'm not altogether sure they would be, though. If the war ended in 1916, Tsarist Russia would be facing its share of domestic problems in the future, and I'm not sure Austria-Hungary would have been destroyed (which was never particularly the Entente's intention). The Serbs are friendly, but they've got what they wanted; the Greeks and Romanians have no really compelling reason to adhere to Russia.

Problems of which Russia could recover - or not; just like the OE with its own share of problems.

A destruction of AH is not necessary, but the Balkan states would probably set their political compasses to Petrograd even more as Vienna's political capital is exhausted. Russia's foreign policy will do everything to ensure that it remains this way.

Russia will be the saviour of the Serbs who probably get Bosnia-Herzegovna. Romania will expand, though less than OTL. Question is whether Poland is allowed some sort of devolution, now that it should have expanded into Austria Galicia and Prussia.
 
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