If WW1 would not have occurred, in Austria:
a) Franz Ferdinand would not have been murdered and within two years he would have succeeded his old uncle Franz Josef.
Being more liberal than F-J (not difficult) he might have been able to maintain the empire, conceding more autonomy specially to Hungary but also to Czechoslovakia or even the balkanic regions of the empire.
b) Had F-F been murdered, I doubt that Kaiser Carl would have had the ability to maintain the empire for a very long time.
Russia was living in the middle ages, something the elite refused to see.
Even without WW1, the seeds of the revolution were planted and it was a matter of time for a general mutiny to explode.
Plus, the heir to the throne was a sickly haemophiliac child who might not reach adulthood.
Would Nicholas II wanted his eldest daughter to succeed him ? How would it be seen by the rest of the family and the rest of the country ?
I wonder if the russian empire would have survived that long, with all the bolcheviks and anarchists already installed in the country.
Germany is a tricky question.
Its ruler was a man with a tremendous ego, determined to be one step ahead of the UK, namely militarily. How would this end ?
Though the Kaiser had few sympathy for democracy, with age, he might be smoothen in accepting it. Or not. The 30's were the decade of the rise of extreme-right movements and Wilhelm might look at them with a kind eye, provided they would not colide with him.
Would Hitler have had the conditions to launch nazism ? Would he settle as PM with the Kaiser as head of state ? How would the two men interact ?
And remember the Kaiser was the man that outlived all the other Emperors - Carl, Nicholas II, George V.
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