why didnt they just chill with this? Even without knowledge of oil, it would've been an amazing geography. B-but the Brits wa-, ... no. The Brits and French did not want to partition The Sublime Porte as they saw it as a stabilizing force.
>>18453775Now what about the Russians (a key French ally, at least in 1914) and the balkanoids?
>>18453777could've recognized reality and just allied Bulgaria and chilled. could've capitalized on French(English) fears of an Ottoman collapse and Russian Expansion to consolidate power. France was the n1 creditor and actually quite amiable. They should have never drawn so close to Germany.
>>18453775>The Brits and French did not want to partition The Sublime PorteSo why did they???
>>18454812The Ottomans joined the central powers. They should have remained neutral and never aligned with Germany
>>18454813Because Enver Pasha wanted revenge and grandeurThe Sultan and others in power wanted no part in the war. So Enver Pasha created an excuse by buying two German ships holed up in Constantinople, and sending those two out to shell Sevastopol, which lead the Russians declaring war on the Ottomans.And because the Russians were part of the Entente, the Ottomans couldn't do much else but join the Central Powers>but they could've just said sorry!The Russians would grasp any reason they could to take out the Ottomans. They wouldn't have backed down ever and the Ottomans knew that
