Since you can't do it yourself, it's also a good choice to support the puppet! The Ottoman Empire is indeed weak, but it can't stand the Russian-Turkish feud! God knows, will the Sultan go crazy one day, give it a moment?

Isn't the Armenian question an example? If you do it, you can do it, why do you have to keep it secret? The suppression of the rebellion of ethnic minorities, the Russian Empire did no less, but by the time the news leaked, it had already been done! When has it ever been caught up in the international community?

In the eyes of Russians, this is completely worrying about IQ! Oh, completely ignoring the difference in the national strength of the two sides! If the Armenian problem happened in the Russian Empire, it is estimated that the people will shout twice, and most governments will pretend not to see it!!

The strategy of the Russian Empire has to start from scratch, it was all forced!

The predecessor of the Russian Empire, Muscovy, was located in the middle of the Eastern European Plain, and most of the territory was at a high latitude, with a cold climate and a harsh environment, so the focus of Russian expansion was to the south, to the west, to the east, and finally to the north.

To the north is the Arctic Ocean, which is known to have an extremely cold climate and poor shipping conditions, and the long coastline of the Arctic Ocean has only one place that can be used as an outlet to the sea, and it is the only ice-free port in the Arctic Ocean.

However, Murmansk is an estuarine port, the latitude is high, the climate is cold, the maximum temperature in August during the day is minus 12 degrees, the night temperature is 0 degrees, and the minimum temperature at night in winter has reached more than minus 60 degrees.

The roads to the north are blocked, and then to the west, the Russians have been fighting their neighbors to the west for hundreds of years. It has seized part of the coastline of the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea from Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Poland, but the Baltic Sea is a closed inland sea!

The Russians had their navy confined to the eastern Baltic Sea, and wanted to go out unless they annexed Sweden, Germany, Denmark and other coastal states. But no matter how big or small the coastal countries are, they are all small and strong that cannot be defeated, and none of them are easy to mess with.

First Denmark's Kalmar was dominant, then the second master's Sweden was awesome again, and now it is Germany's turn to rise, and it is not the Russian Empire that can be leveled anyway!

Let's go south, but unfortunately the Black Sea is still more closed than the Baltic Sea, and if you want to get out, you have to go through Turkey, and out of Turkey, you have to go through the Mediterranean.

The Russians tried to snatch the Bosphorus from Turkey, only to have the Anglo-French partner beat them back in the Crimean War.

The situation is now obvious, even if the Russian Empire can PK Turkey, it will have to be beaten back when it enters the Mediterranean, so the Russian Empire has put its strategic focus on the Far East!

In contrast, Europe is all hard bones, and the Far East is soft persimmons!

The Russians have already seized large tracts of land from the foodie empire, gaining the natural harbor of Vladivostok (Vladivostok).

However, although Vladivostok was in good condition, it had a freezing period, and it was surrounded by the Japanese archipelago, the Korean Peninsula, and the Aleutian Islands, so the Russians had to borrow the way to get out of the Pacific Ocean.

However, if you compare it, you will find that compared with the PK of Britain and Germany in Europe, the small trouble of Japan and North Korea is simply insignificant!

The Russian Empire has no plans to borrow it, and since it has taken a fancy to it, it will be good to grab it soon! Anyway, Japan and North Korea at the end of the 19th century were weak chickens, and they were not yet in the eyes of the Russians.

Now that Russia has found the best breakthrough, it is natural that it will not stay in Europe and continue to fight the hellish copy. The Navy wants to open the way to the Mediterranean in advance, but it is just a rainy day, and it is good to succeed, but it is okay to fail!

There is another reason that can't be said, it's just to brush up on the sense of existence! To support the Bulgarians to come out and grab the strait, there must be a navy, right?

With the current pocket-sized navy of Bulgaria, it is okay to catch smugglers in the coastal waters; If you set sail, maybe you will be killed by pirates?

Isn't the value of the Russian Navy reflected? According to traditional practice, the Bulgarian Navy is the Russian Navy in vests, and the Russian Navy should be single-handedly handled from establishment to training, including command!

As for the attitude of Bulgaria, is this important? Can you skip the pie delivered to your door? Anyway, the future is part of the Russian Empire, like several kingdoms within the German Empire, and the present is paid for the future harvest!

After all, before the opening of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the forces that the Russian Empire could put into the Far East were extremely limited, and the navy was reduced to spectators!

This is something that the Admiralty cannot tolerate, whether it is for personal or collective gain, and the Admiralty must keep the Navy present at all times anyway!

Then the obedient Bulgaria came into the eyes of everyone. It so happened that in the Second Bulgarian War, the Bulgarian army performed well and won the true legend of the Russian Empire! (Note: Before 1886, the Bulgarian Army was single-handedly organized by the Russians, and everything from establishment to training was done at the request of Russian instructors!) ）

Supporting Bulgaria to ban the Ottoman Empire's monopoly on the straits is a good choice!

As for whether Bulgaria will be bigger? Sorry, it doesn't exist! At least in front of the Russian Empire at its peak, even if Ferdinand unified the Balkans, he had to be honestly a little brother!

At the end of the 19th century, in terms of comprehensive national strength, the British Empire was a well-deserved boss, followed by the Russian Empire, and Germany and the United States were still practicing their internal skills!

Until 1905, this ranking did not change! The Franco-Russian alliance suppressed the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria and Italy in Europe, and in order to reduce the pressure on the European continent, all countries (except France) invariably chose to lead the way to the east.

Austria-Hungary has to pretend to be a grandson, and only by attaching to Germany can it barely compete with the Russian Empire, not to mention Bulgaria! After a few decades, Bulgaria has risen, and the two countries have long been tied together, and it is no longer possible to untie them apart by personal reconciliation!

The Admiralty's argument that a similar plan had already been made in the Russian Empire more than a decade ago, but for various reasons, it was never implemented.

From the beginning of Bulgaria's independence, the Russian Empire had a strong influence and even mastered the Bulgarian army for a time, which did not change until 1885.

Now again, the difference is that Bulgaria was slightly stronger, and in order to avoid causing dissatisfaction among the Bulgarians, Alexander III began to use gentle methods!

At present, it seems that the effect is not bad, the "Great Bulgarians" promoted by Bulgaria and the strategy of the great unification of the Slavic peoples proposed by the Russian Empire are essentially the same, the only difference is that the appetite is smaller!