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@Skallagrim I want to float another proto-EU scenario with you: If the Entente still wins WWI but Russia avoids going Communist (due to someone killing Vladimir Lenin in or before late 1917), would it be plausible for a proto-EU to eventually develop throughout Europe and to include all or at...

Excellent analysis! FWIW, I suspect that Romania might view an EU-style union (if it actually eventually gets that far after a customs union) to be a good deal since this might be its only realistic way to get closer to Transylvania and Bukovina without a collapse of A-H, which I suspect is...

@raharris1973 @stevep @Zyobot @Skallagrim @Earl @Atarlost @Ricardolindo @bintananth What do you guys think about this?

In other words, something similar to the WWI-era Mitteleuropa concept, just without WWI itself occurring: https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/concept_of_mitteleuropa

Plausibility Check: Without World War I, could deeper integration between Germany and Austria-Hungary form the nucleus for a future European Union? As in, initially Germany and A-H jointly pursue deeper and deeper integration, but then other countries possibly join them, such as Serbia...