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1 - yes, regardless who is on the Polish throne, war with Order is practically a given. I was referring to Poland helping Hungary against the Ottomans after vanquishing the Order. For Poland the Ottoman-Hungary rivalry is a case of "not my monkeys, not my circus". 2 - in agnatic, i.e. male line...

No. Without the disastrous putsch of 1386 by the Little Polish clique, Poland's king is Hedewig with Wilhelm as co-rulling consort. Sounds complicated, eh? It was quite common for lady monarchs to be crowned as the male equivalent. Back to the topic - this puts Poland in the Habsburg camp...

Exactly like in OTL ... Polish speaking Christian nobility sharing broadly the same customs as dudes in Great Poland or Podolia were "Lithuanians".

Impossible to say. Struggle can end in many ways - and the winning party may end up disintegrating a generation or two after Ultimate Victory. As in OTL at some point "Scandinavians have joined the chat" :)

This is bullshit and you should know that. If cool heads prevail, OTL ensues - first Poland and Lithuania gang up on the Order and beat it down. Then a triangular balance of power should ensue. In OTL it did, for a short time, but the Order committed seppukku by pissing off its taxpayers into...

Which does not mean adoption of Russian i.e. Muscovite identity. Think adoption of Orthodox Christianity, the magnates and nobility speaking westernmost variants of the Rus dialect continuum, i.e. those evolving into Belarussian of today. Look at Mongols and Mandzhurs in China, at the Juan and...

LOL! On the Polish history forum this issue is a permanent source of heated debate, with the majority seeing the union as inevitable and a Good Thing, yet a vocal minority deeming it the Initio Calamiti Regni i.e. onset of Poland's disasters. At least two threads ongoing on the topic, and...