Who would the 5th Central Power have been if one had joined?Basically which country came the closest to joining the Central Powers and what would it have taken to get them on board?
Italy if it accepted the offer for Trent (maybe offer them more) and wasn't led by retards.
Romania, China and Sweden
>>17433822Italy made the right decision in joining the Entente.They made a blunderous decision choosing Luigi to attack Austria Hungary though
>>17433839>right decision>victory dissatisfaction leads to fascist chimpout
>>17433836Why China? And wasn’t Transylvania clearly the better prize than Bessarabia from Romania’s perspective?
>>17433839>Libya 1911Always traitor who attacks first
>>17433847Turks weren't a part of the Triple Alliance at that time.
>>17433841There other reason.https://europecentenary.eu/how-many-romanians-fought-for-austro-hungary-during-the-first-world-war/
>>17433848I never say they were?
>>17433859Dunno why you called Italy a traitor then.
>>17433862Before WW1 Italy was part of an alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, yet it didn't join them when the war started and it even joined the opposing side and terrorist, were extremly Idiotic
>>17433871Yes, Italy was part of the Triple Alliance.The Triple Alliance was defensive in nature.Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and started the First World War.Italy had no commitment to join the war alongside Austria-Hungary or Germany.
>>17433871they were promised more than they gotthey also didn't fare very well against Germansthe two combined caused massive seethe when the eternal Anglo jewed them out of their share and they finally realized their mistake
>>17433881> The Triple Alliance was defensive in nature.>Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and started the First World War. (Overlooks black hand)See>>17433847
>>17433885>Overlooks black handBlack Hand are irrelevant.Austria-Hungary declared war first so the Triple Alliance's mutual defence clause could not be invoked.
>>17433883Germany could have promised Savoys royal homeland, city of Nice and even Napoleon birth islands buuutt shitalian were cuckold…anyway
>>17433887Like saying 9/11 was irrelevant
>>17433822There wasn’t any. All the other countries were firmly pit against them via decades of political maligning. It’s moreso factual that Bulgaria or Turkey didn’t join. That was more likely to have happened.Greece could have remained neutral. Same with Portugal.
>>17433822With a little luck (or blunder) I could see the Netherlands joining Germany if they had a conservative cabinet full of pro-German sympathizers (there were many at the time) arousing anti-British sentiment due to the Boer wars (especially among the strict Calvinist communities)
>>17433822The UK. Access to the archives from the period gave us the bomb that the British were already in the process of switching sides, at first in secret. The reason was that they saw the Russians expanding their economic base in lightning speed and just like the Germans wanted to contain them. Of course they were thrown into war before the switch happened, but Russia contained itself with very little help so it was sort of ok.
