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Just 1-2 years, no?

Don't worry; you can still achieve Mexican-level prosperity! It might sound bad, but it's still a huge improvement over the status quo. Mexico is relatively wealthy for a low-average IQ country. Comparable to Bulgaria and Romania. Good analysis.

The Philippines only have a lot of Muslims in the south, no? As for average IQ, here you go: https://www.esquiremag.ph/politics/news/philippines-ranking-asean-smartest-countries-a00293-20191010 You can also look at the Philippines's PISA exam results...

So, a lower-average-IQ and darker-skinned version of Ireland?

Would a British Philippines have looked like a lower-average-IQ version of Hong Kong?

Any idea on how exactly the Junkers will interact with the Polish government and later Russian Tsar? Also, would Poles really object to a personal union with Russia all that much? One positive of this would be additional Polish Lebensraum further to the east, in Russia proper.

If this wouldn't have actually been accompanied by a lot of ethnic cleansing, there would have actually been something satisfying about Germany losing most of its Prussian territories after the end of WWII in real life. Out of Frederick the Great's territories at the time of his death...

So, the Wittelsbachs get disloged from Bavaria and Bavaria permanently becomes a part of Austria? And if France gets the southern, Walloon-speaking half of the Austrian Netherlands, does it have any effect on France getting both Lorraine and Corsica in the near-future?

Would East Prussia become Polonized?

Might Tsarist Russia decline to annex Poland outright in this TL, instead aiming for a personal union of Russia and Poland in the long(er)-run? And what effects would there be in regards to a Polish East Prussia? AFAIK, Russia wanted to give East Prussia to Poland so that Poland would give it...

What if Tsarina (Empress) Elizabeth of Russia would have lived at least a little bit longer--say, an extra 1-2 years, specifically long enough in order to avoid this? : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_House_of_Brandenburg#Second_Miracle_of_the_House_of_Brandenburg What effects...