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BTW, @History Learner, if an alt-WWI breaks out in 1917, how do you expect the post-WWI map to look like in this TL? What meaningful differences from real life, other than no independent Poland or Finland or Baltic states and a Russian Bessarabia rather than a Romanian one? Would there be no...

Hopefully, though AFAIK the main use of these railroads was to deliver more troops to the front faster. That's why they were being built in Poland most of all, no? Yeah, though I think that a lot might depend on just what kinds of concessions Franz Ferdinand is willing to offer. Is he willing...

That said, though, it's worth noting that these specific partitions were done without a major war because all of Poland's neighbors agreed that Poland must go. This certainly won't be the case for Austria-Hungary, which should change the risk calculus here quite a bit. So long as Germany has any...

Touche. Well, that would certainly help, no doubt, but it would be counterbalanced by the lack of British and US participation. And if Russia can't win a quick victory, can't its railroad system still collapse and thus cause food shortages?

Also, another question for @History Learner: Wouldn't Germany win any alt-WWI that breaks out in 1917 if Britain is not involved in it? Or would British neutrality be compensated by Ottoman neutrality?

Wouldn't a Russian-led dismemberment of A-H be perceived as being in very poor taste since A-H is a European Christian power, unlike the Muslim Ottomans? Also, would Germany really try again without Hitler and the Nazis? And without successfully managing to split the Franco-British and Russians...

How exactly would you realistically make this map of a Romanov Cold War happen? Any ideas? Having Russia win World War I would be a good way to start, with the US Senate ratifying the Security Treaty with Britain and France and thus creating a peacetime defensive alliance of the three powers...