User blog comment:ChrisL123/New Crimean War timeline/@comment-32656-20120325075645

If Austria joins in, Allies don't get involved with the Ottomans - rather, they join in dismembering it.

Austria and Russia, after that? See the situation between them in the Balkans in 1914 - their influences and interests are in direct competition. No way they ally or are friendly.

Austrians lose even worse in A-P War, having to hold down Balkans they gain.

Alliances would go much like otl.

However, the alliance network, at least on the continent, would occur faster in such a context.

Bet on a War starting before 1900.