Haven't you lied enough in the Lite game already?
Calling me a liar is rich.
Austria promised Turkey a truce, and reneged on it.
Austria promised to go for a tied victory with Germany, and reneged on it.
Austria promised Turkey land to Italy, then deliberately stood them out.
Austria promised to stab Italy, then reneged on it.
There's probably more, too.
There was a German victory in the offing.
I had 11 of the 18 necessary SCs at my peak. About 61% of the needed SCs. I was only a bit over halfway to the necessary solo SCs.
Britain was cracking under the pressure, and in two years you would open the way to the Isles.
If I secured the British isles, and Bre, and Par, I'd still be 2 SCs short of solo victory, with my forces bunched in the north, needing to stab either you or Italy. Whomever I stabbed would immediately get the aid of the other, because then a solo was in the offing.
You already had a sizeable part of the stalemate line (Mat-StP). Turkey could only attack Austria or Italy, so we could not even present an unified Italian-Turkish-Austrian front to you. We had two choices, attempting to destroy Turkey faster than you would UK, which was considered unfeasible, or turning onto you, attempting to deny you further gains against UK, and taking advantage of most of your forces being naval. A tied victory between Austria and Germany was simply not possible without some extreme kindness from the German part.
The likely split of SCs in coming years would have been about 16 to me with you and Italy probably accounting for 20 between you, very likely, given your habit of denying territory to the Italians, 16 to me, 11 to you, 7 to the Italians or thereabouts. It would have been in the favor of an alliance if I tried to stab you two. A joint victory was always the agreed course, and as my current situation shows, going solo would only result in facing destruction.
This said, the game is pretty much open. And paranoia will rise, when SC's start being uncovered and vulnerable to stabs.
Yes, it is open now.