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Do you have a link for this, please?

Yep, everyone got fucked over in the end other than the Americans. :( Well, the Zionists did ultimately get their own state, but at too high of a cost in lives. It just wasn't worth it. I'd rather have an additional 6+ million surviving Jews and no Jewish state at all than the other way around...

Interesting. BTW, off-topic, but is it fair to say that the main winners of WWI were the Poles, Romanians, Serbs, Czechoslovaks, Zionists, and maybe Americans? Here's how I see it: -Poles: Got their independence back -Romanians: Completed their national unification project -Serbs: Same as for...

Whom did they want instead?

The thing is, though, that I don't think that they'd actually be able to defend themselves from Russia without German help. Sure, but it certainly beats having millions of one's citizens starve to death, lose their lands in forced collectivization, and then have tens of millions of one's...

I mean, probably, if you think that you can actually defend them from the Russian bear indefinitely at a low cost in terms of money, troop stationing, et cetera. BTW, what do you think of my analysis here? :

Would a Germany that continues to have its military be led by Erich von Falkenhayn still be as greedy in regards to this, though?

Having a Hapsburg King of Poland also makes sense because Poles were Catholics. For that matter, the Lithuanian King should likewise be Catholic for the same reason, no? But can Eastern Orthodox Kings be found for Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, et cetera?

Makes sense. And re: Karl: Depends on just how much the Hungarians will try forcing his hand in regards to this, I suppose. Though either way the Hungarians will need to get crushed. Can Austria actually do and finish this job by itself, without any German help?

If the Russian Provisional Government makes peace early enough, then it could avoid the loss of Livonia, Estonia, Ukraine, and Belarus, no? Interestingly enough, while Germany is undoubtedly going to be a huge short-term winner, Russia is going to be a long-term winner here since it will avoid...

I was thinking of FF surviving here, but I suppose that either FJ or Karl could likewise work here if FF is still assassinated in 1914 but WWI doesn't actually break out that year for whatever reason. And the German troop support might be necessary as a backup in the event that Austria can't do...

If done in peacetime, though, then this could simply result in Austria crushing the Hungarians with German support and then reducing Hungary to a simple crown land like Bukovina is, no?

What if the US would have remained neutral in WWI and thus the Entente would have gotten no unsecured loans from the US from 1917 onwards? A great way to do this would be for Germany to delay the decision on resuming USW for an additional several months, after which point it would have already...