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I'm presuming the extra three years proves sufficient in railway capacity to prevent this. That's entirely why I'm assuming the conflict happens, but a Franco-Russian alliance backed up by Italy, Serbia, Romania, etc is a potent combo if Russia has developed further.

Poland says hi. Three more years of Industrialization and military reform in Russia is what I'm thinking could be decisive.

World War I gets delayed until 1917, with Austro-Hungary imploding into Civil War and Russia taking advantage with three more years of development. It ends after a couple of years with the Austrian+Ottoman Empires gone and Germany weakened as per OTL 1919. Peace for another 20 years until...