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Originally Posted by Astromancer
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Try this idea, the Czarist millitary decides that they've got one shot in 1914, throw 2/3s of their millitary at Berlin while the Germans hit France and the other third is sent to the Caucasus region to attack Turkey overland.
Realistically the Germans couldn't turn around, they admited as much. The sudden flood of Russians in Prussia heading for Berlin collapses the Imperial German war machine. Germany is out of the war by Christmas. Turkey is smashed before Easter 1915. Austria sues for peace as well.
It's late summer 1915. Everybody is out for blood at the "Peace" Conference.
I'd make this a Q6 world. The possibilities for intrigue and skulldugerry with or without the Centrum/Homeline struggle are pretty good.
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Hmmm...
The ATL Great War is a much shorter war than what happened in OTL, with fewer men killed (though that massive Russian push on the Eastern Front seems likely to kill a lot of men on both sides, and the Western Front will still claim many lives).
Tsarist regime comes out of the war in a much better position, though still facing problems at home.
No sealed train; Lenin probably remains in exile.
No American intervention, so little American influence. Wilson's idealism, for whatever it is worth, counts even less in this timeline.
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I like that you set the current year with the peace conference/carving up party.