WI Britain had stayed out of the Great War?

[ae597]

POD: Irish Home Rule goes ahead on schedule in September 1914

22nd June, 1915

On this day Militia Major Michael Collins was awarded the Victoria
Cross for his gallant actions in the defeat of the Ulster Volunteers
in Derry.

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[troll]

France is toast. Not literally toast since this
is not a nuclear era, but it is pretty much a
repeat of the Franco-Prussian war.

It is hard to say exactly how Russia would
get out of the war but it would be soon.
Tsar Nicholas II would probably no longer
be a pacifist as a result of demands for
concessions from Germany and Austria
and he would probably not be overthrown
either in that decade or the next.

If the Serbians manage to organize
rapidly enough, the Austrians and
Germans get their noses kicked in
in the Balkans, but they will probably
overwhelm them with numbers.

Net result - Germany gets some
of France's overseas colonies but
gets very little in the way of reparations.
Austria decides not to annex Serbia
due to the rather severe resistance.
The Ottoman Empire remains intact
and it is difficult to say how or when
it might disintegrate.

It will be a short war, that will
definitely be over before 22nd
June, 1915, and any conflict
in Ireland at that time will be
thought of as a separate and
different from the not-World,
not-War-to-end-all-wars.

[Paul F Austin]

On 6/4/2012 5:04 PM, troll wrote:
>
> Net result - Germany gets some
> of France's overseas colonies but
> gets very little in the way of reparations.
> Austria decides not to annex Serbia
> due to the rather severe resistance.
> The Ottoman Empire remains intact
> and it is difficult to say how or when
> it might disintegrate.
>
> It will be a short war, that will
> definitely be over before 22nd
> June, 1915,

Ulyanov and Hitler die in obscurity, Dzugashvili is captured while
robbing a bank and shot...

A generation of Frenchmen would have spat every time Germany was
mentioned who would otherwise have pushed up poppies and the
demographics and psychology of France and Britain in the 1930s and 1940s
would be radically different.

I've often thought that the 20th century would have been a happier place
if the Miracle of the Marne, wasn't. The carnage over the century would
likely have been much, much less.

Paul

[tc1...@live.com]

Paul,

I strongly agree. The world would be a far better place if the
Germans had won WWI in 1914 or 1915. The Edwardian Era would have
continued, and the Nazis and Communists would never have come to power
and the Great Depression would also never have happened.

Tony