raharris1973
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Russia in OTL obviously felt like it had to come to Serbia's rescue in 1914.
It figured Austria would win if Serbia stood alone, Austria would do bad things to Serbia, Russia's reputation would take a hit, and domestic opinion would be outraged.
What did the Austrians want and plan to do with Serbia, and what did the Russians think the Austrians planned to do?
Run their own investigation and punishments all over the country?
Did the Austrians plan regime change of the dynasty? Karageorgovic back to Obrenovic (if they could find any of the latter)
Take away territory from Serbia?
If taking territory, anything more than the amount of territory that Austria say had occupied prior to 1908, the Sanjak of Novi Pazar
That territory is the small blue appendix thingy sticking out from Bosnia that Austria occupied before 1908, but gave up when it annexed Bosnia (returning it to Turkey), that Serbia and Montenegro partitioned during the 1912 Balkan War.
If depriving Serbia of territory, was anyone thinking Serbia would be deprived of territory equal or greater to what it had just won to its south in the Balkan Wars in 1912-1913? (these lands are southwest of a thick red line and have hashmarks on them)
If so, considering Serbia had lived as a viable state without that much land before 1912, would Austria rolling Serbia back to its 1911-1912 size in a small war in 1914 have been that big a deal for Serbia? And especially for Russia?
Was it worth a world war?
Or did the Austrians want to annex and incorporate all of Serbia?
Or did they want to genocide the Serbians?
Or did the Russians have no idea how much or how little the Austrians wanted/planned to do?
It figured Austria would win if Serbia stood alone, Austria would do bad things to Serbia, Russia's reputation would take a hit, and domestic opinion would be outraged.
What did the Austrians want and plan to do with Serbia, and what did the Russians think the Austrians planned to do?
Run their own investigation and punishments all over the country?
Did the Austrians plan regime change of the dynasty? Karageorgovic back to Obrenovic (if they could find any of the latter)
Take away territory from Serbia?
If taking territory, anything more than the amount of territory that Austria say had occupied prior to 1908, the Sanjak of Novi Pazar
That territory is the small blue appendix thingy sticking out from Bosnia that Austria occupied before 1908, but gave up when it annexed Bosnia (returning it to Turkey), that Serbia and Montenegro partitioned during the 1912 Balkan War.
If depriving Serbia of territory, was anyone thinking Serbia would be deprived of territory equal or greater to what it had just won to its south in the Balkan Wars in 1912-1913? (these lands are southwest of a thick red line and have hashmarks on them)
If so, considering Serbia had lived as a viable state without that much land before 1912, would Austria rolling Serbia back to its 1911-1912 size in a small war in 1914 have been that big a deal for Serbia? And especially for Russia?
Was it worth a world war?
Or did the Austrians want to annex and incorporate all of Serbia?
Or did they want to genocide the Serbians?
Or did the Russians have no idea how much or how little the Austrians wanted/planned to do?