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In my first game playing as France, I forced Austria to surrender and played with the surrender terms. One was that they would declare war on Russia (their ally). I was allowed to include the term but a couple turns later - no action against Russia and the diplomatic screen indicates they are still allies. Any ideas why?

The AI may be unable (or unwilling) to honour the surender term - in which case they are supposed to take a big glory hit for being a scumbag. They can be in a difficult situation - for example, they may have another treaty where they promise Russia not to declare war on them, which means they have to break one of the treaties.

However, I would wait another month or two - surrender conditions take 1 month for you to propose, then 1 month for them to agree, and then happen in the third month - your next turn, I believe.