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Indeed, which is why the politics were so messed up every time they tried to change anything.

The political problems with the Hungarians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Compromise_of_1867 It ended the military occupation of Hungary after the 1848 civil war. Not by the constitution since voting rights requirements were written in such a way (land ownership+tax payment...

Germany being defeated at low cost by Russia and France is the opposite of what Britain wants. Look at how they turned on France immediately after the war to help Germany out of the Treaty of Versailles when France occupied the Ruhr or how they helped build Hitler up to oppose the USSR in the...

There is the balance of power issue, so if Germany doesn't start the war Britain could well come in on their side to prevent Franco-Russian hegemony on the continent.

What if FF managed to dodge his assassination in 1914, say his driver parks in a different side street and Princip doesn't get his chance. Things in Europe remain relatively quiet until 1917 when the Ausgleich negotiations are up. It seems that FF and the head of the Hungarian parliament...