WW1: US stays neutral, Czar stays in power, Central Powers win

[Georg Ebner]

RANKE was convinced, that at least the bigger countries of Europe were more than more or less big&strong soulless apeHords - because they represented respectively certain ideas, ways of life, mentalities, moods. Even those denying this should see, though, that US & SU have been more than semiContinents: they have stood for antagonistic (or rather: complementarian) ecoNomies and these for ideoLogies, whose conFrontation was inevitable in the XXth. Perhaps with other protAgonists (like from the beginning "communism" [=public capitalism] represented by backwarded China instead of Czarist Russia; private capitalism by the dying imperia of UK&France instead of the US, if the ConFederates had won). The hope of HEIDEGGER and other very intelligent people, that Germany could achieve Die Kehre (The U-turn) from technicism to mythicism, did not materialize.
Even "practical" people unaware of ideas&ideoLogies could see, that a victory of us CentralEuropeans would not have - just like the actual WWI - solved or altered anything (apart from the Prussian generals turning from arrogant to super-arrogant...): The gallus gallicus would have been frightened of us more than ever and eager for reVenge; Czarist Russia remained a threat; Poland&Balkans a problem without solution; the DanubeMonarchy a continued anaChronism; detto the bizarre combinations of Reich & Prussia, of ReichsChancellor & William II.

[Georg Ebner]

I would have written already before, that another militarical outCome of WWI would not have altered the basics.
What can already be seen by the fact, that - what has been entirely missed here - we Germans&Austrians actually won the war!: The Small Entente was no equiValent for Russia (just opened the possibility of an overwhelming alliance SovietUnion&Germany against Poland&France), thus for the first time in centuries we did not have to fight for everyThing or noThing, for life or death by being endangered on 2 fronts (archEnemy France and allied Turks/Danes/Swedes/Russians).