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I don't know a huge amount about WWI, but apparently a German industrialist called Hugo Stinnes was in Sweden in 1916 trying to negotiate a separate peace with Russia, principally with Protopopov, Vice-President of the Duma. And these talks were broken off as a result of a German initiative to make promises of statehood to the Poles, which obviously would have gouged out a significant proportion of the Russian economy.

So if those promises hadn't been made, and the Swedish talks had turned into something concrete before the February Revolution, what are the ramifications of that? Would that mean that Russia stops fighting Austria-Hungary as well? If so, that means a sudden increase of manpower on the Western Front and the Italian Front, although that didn't have a huge effect when it arrived IOTL, so it probably doesn't change the outcome of the War.

But with a surviving Tsardom and an possibly an early end to the war in general, would the German monarchy be better placed to survive? And would the Austro-Hungarian post-war situation be any better than OTL? And would Romania be wiped off the face of the map?
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