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-Maintain a modest fleet-in-being but focus on sea-denial assets like torpedo-boats and submarines to keep enemies away from my coast
-Maintain a modest fleet-in-being but focus on sea-denial assets like torpedo-boats and submarines to keep enemies away from my coast
Without knowing the Navalism6 strength of Russia, I'd probably agree. I think the stronger the Ottomans appear to get, the higher they would rise on Russia's "problems to be eliminated" list. And so I think it would behoove the Ottomans to look, so to speak, like too much trouble to take out easily, and not strong enough to be a deadly peril at Russia's throat. Since Austria-Hungary has broken up, Russia will not have as much of a local counterbalance in the Balkans, and the Slavs there probably don't give a shake if the Ottomans are reformed or not; ten years of being nice doesn't erase four hundred years of terror and oppression...
Also, given the wide range of Ottoman commitments, its industrial capacity is far too little to afford the construction and maintenance of a fleet of sufficient size to deter more than one of its potential enemies, and such a fleet could only be in one place at once.
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Russia: "Hey Italy, can you make some trouble for the Couch Potatoes in Libya? When the Couches look your way, I'll liberate Bulgaria. In exchange, I'll distract them while you pick up Libya."
Italy: "Hey, o-kay!"
Britain: "Now wait a minute, lads, that's not very sporting!"
Italy: "We'll let you have the rest of Egypt..."
Russia: "And Sudan, if you can take it. It's a bit too far for me."
Britain: "Oh... well then... *ahem* give me a few minutes to foment something appropriate for the press."
Russia: "Okay, that's alright by us."
Italy: "Tell us when you're ready."
Britain: "Okay, got it!"
Ottomans: "Well, [bleep] my life..."
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