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You might not get Lower Silesia south of the eastern Neisse (between the eastern and western Neisse) in this TL. Otherwise agreed, though. :)

You'll still have your independence west of the Curzon Line, most likely.

Agreeing to a pro-German peace and then backstabbing Germany at the last moment would have been ideal for Russia, no? I mean for a non-Bolshevik Russian regime.

Makes sense and reasonably analysis. And it's also quite interesting how rapidly the Russians advanced in the north at the start of the war but were then halted at the outskirts of Kiev, similar to the Germans being halted at the Marne in 1914...

Does the same logic also apply in the Donbass in the present-day Russo-Ukrainian War? As in, because the Donbass is so densely packed and populated, it's very hard for an army to make sizable military advances there?

The Russians lasted long enough for the Americans to enter the war, which eventually paved the way for the CPs' doom. Ironically, it would have been better for the Russians themselves had the Americans not entered the war since in a CP victory TL the Germans would have likely overthrown the...

Did tanks change the calculation in regards to this in 1918? And why was the Eastern Front (including the Ottoman Fronts) more mobile relative to the Western Front? Was it because the Western Front was narrower and more compact (higher railway density, for instance) than the Eastern Front was?

Agreed. Also, what about my question/paragraph right above here?

Thanks. Also, off-topic, but I want to figure out how an alt-WWI starts in 1917: Franz Joseph dies, Franz Ferdinand is about to be crowned, the Hungarian nobles say "No!" to FF until he agrees to renounce his universal suffrage plans, FF says "No!" and implements Plan U, which fails similar to...

AFAIK, the Baltic Germans were initially pro-Russian but only became pro-German later on, such as in response to the threat of Bolshevism and of course once it became clear that Germany was going to win the war in the East. Historically, AFAIK, the Baltic Germans worked along rather well with...

Do you think that an extra couple of years of railroad construction would have solved these problems for Russia had WWI been delayed by a couple of years?

That makes perfect sense. Wait until the Americans arrive and only then go on the attack again. Too bad that US troops couldn't be sent to Russia in large numbers. Could have perhaps raised troop morale there as well if this was actually possible.

Were the French willing to fight in 1918 without negotiation efforts because the German government initially rejected Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (before accepting them near the very end of the war)?

Does A-H also lose Transylvania? What about Dalmatia? Croatia? Also, wouldn't Italy enter the war at the very end in this TL in order to grab some spoils at A-H's expense for itself? If so, then there would be no Mutilated Victory for Italy. And does Russia still go Bolshevik in this TL?

Welcome back, @sillygoose! :)

He hasn't been on this forum for quite a while, unfortunately. I really don't know why.

Didn't the Great Retreat actually benefit the Russians by significantly shortening the length of the Russian front lines? There was no longer a Polish salient to worry about, after all. Instead, there was a new, relatively straight front line.

How old are you?

And the Ottomans drained Allied troops as well, so overall a mixed bag. I don't think that Italian entry on the CP side in 1914 will secure a CP victory in WWI. After all, France can simply withdraw as many troops as necessary from southeastern France in order to protect Paris, assuming that...

A fall of St. Petersburg doesn't necessarily mean that Russia is knocked out of the war. It could retreat to Moscow, you know?