Chapter 365: Diplomatic Changes
Chapter 355: Diplomatic Changes
St. Petersburg, with the benefit of hindsight, the Tsarist government now reacted. There was no doubt that this was someone trying to screw them.
The Russian Empire, which had won the Near East War and captured Constantinople, appeared to be in the ascendant, but had actually brought the hatred up to full strength.
As the losers, Britain and France were not willing to lose, and always wanted to retaliate; as melon eaters, the European countries were also worried that Russia’s power would threaten their own security.
This is not everyone intentionally or unintentionally pushed, resulting in the current situation. Each of them leaked a little bit out from their fingernails, and the Polish Independence Organization became bigger.
In the Winter Palace
Alexander II growled, “These bastards, when did it become their turn to dictate the great Russian Empire!”
Diplomatic interference from various countries had sparked the anger of His Majesty the Tsar. It was always them who interfered in other people’s internal affairs, when did anyone dare to interfere in theirs?
As for the question of whether the Polish issue was considered to be Russia’s internal affairs, was there any need to consider this question? As long as it is occupied by the Tsar’s government, it is Russia’s territory, and whether the outside world recognizes it or not is irrelevant.
No one dared to mess with the angry tsar, the people tacitly watched Alexander II will be the heart of the anger out.
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“Has the counter-insurgency army departed yet, I want to hang these traitors through and through!” Alexander II gritted his teeth and said
Hearing Alexander II’s inquiry, the crowd knew that His Majesty the Tsar had recovered.
Minister of War Matthias replied, “One hundred thousand counter-insurgency armies have already departed from the Baltic Sea and will enter the Polish region the day after tomorrow to suppress the rebellion.”
The Polish Independents, were not taken to heart by the crowd. If the Russian Empire was that fragile, it would have been split up long ago.
Alexander II continued to ask: “What did the Austrians say, and has a reasonable explanation been given?”
Foreign Minister Clarence Ivanov replied, “The government of Vienna has stated that it has no knowledge of these issues, and they believe that this is the handiwork of Britain and France, and that they intend to sow discord between the two countries.
They provided information on some of the insurgents, many of whom were not permanent residents of Austria but had entered the country in recent years, and there were records of service in the British and French armies.”
There is no doubt that most of this information was falsified. In order to get rid of the responsibility, the Vienna government didn’t mind letting the British and French take the blame, which was hard to find out in this day and age anyway.
This answer was undoubtedly hard for the Tsarist government to accept, but they had to. Austria was the only one of the Great Powers left to support them, so they couldn’t turn an ally into an enemy just because of this little problem, could they?
Alexander II did not have the good sense to ask: “Then what about Prussia, is Britain and France also want to provoke the relationship between Prussia and Russia?”
Do not look at him as a pro-Prussian, in front of the national interest, this position can change at any time.
Foreign Minister Clarence replied, “No, the Berlin government said it was all spontaneous behavior of the people and had nothing to do with them.
In order to stop this from continuing later, the Berlin government announced that these people were expelled from their citizenship and were at our disposal.”
This explanation is even more bullshit than the Vienna government’s claim. There was nothing the Berlin government could do about it, and the support they provided to the Polish independence organizations was so much stronger that they couldn’t even cover it up if they wanted to.
Russian-Austrian relations have been very good in recent decades, the Vienna government is a little thick-skinned to put the shit on the head of Britain and France on the line, Prussia can not. There was no need to sow discord when relations between the two countries were already bad.
Moreover, next Prussia is also ready to attack Denmark, even if the Tsarist government is fixed now, it is of little use.
Contemplated for a while, Alexander II strung things together, nothing more than the European countries do not want to see Russia complete the reform, become more powerful.
Knowing the truth, Alexander II calmed down.
“Regardless of any reaction from the outside world, the Polish rebellion must be suppressed. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is going to have to work hard, as far as the eye can see the European continent has become Russia’s enemy, where are our allies?
It is impossible to rely on Austria for everything. When one day the two countries have a conflict of interest, or the Vienna government feels that this alliance does not bring them benefits, it will be too late to do anything about it then!”
The Russian Empire needed new allies to change its diplomatic passivity.
“Yes, Your Majesty.” Foreign Minister Clarence replied with a bitter smile
It wasn’t that they weren’t working hard, but right now Russia really couldn’t find a suitable ally. Geopolitics dictated that the countries on the European continent were naturally on the opposite side from them.
Unless the Tsarist government gave up its European strategy and never expanded in the European region. Otherwise, such conflicts are inevitable.
No European country wanted to see the Russian Empire continue to grow; a strong Russia threatened everyone’s existence.
The deterioration of Prussian-Russian relations was not only because of the Danish issue, but also because of the Tsarist government’s desire to expand on Europe, and Franz just poked the windowpaper.
Feeling that its security was threatened, the Kingdom of Prussia had to move closer to Britain and France. The anti-Russian faction was strengthened by the sword of Damocles, which was the partition of Prussia by Russia and Austria.
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The inability to break the ice on the European continent provided favorable conditions for U.S.-Russian proximity.In the fall of 1864, the Tsarist government sent a naval fleet to visit the American Commonwealth.
It was not the best option, but the only option for the Tsarist government and the American Commonwealth. It was not unusual for two isolated people to choose to embrace each other.
Franz’s butterfly effect only delayed the U.S.-Russian convergence backward by two years.
The Tsarist government was attempting to use the federal government to distract the European countries and ease their diplomatic pressure on the continent; while the federal government was hoping to gain Russian support to offset some of the pressure from the Great Powers.
In late 1864, at a critical time in the American Civil War, the Russians came to the side of the Northern government, giving the federal government, which had moved its capital to New York, a certain boost.
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The West Coast of the United States, in this era, was still in the developmental stage. Even the famous “California” in later years is still just starting out, far behind the East Coast states.
After the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War, the federal government’s naval forces were concentrated on the East Coast. This is not the Lincoln government favoritism, is completely the reality of the situation.
In this era, the U.S. shipbuilding industry is concentrated in the East Coast, the West Coast shipbuilding industry is backward, does not have the ability to build warships.
After the outbreak of the Civil War, the Union Navy never had enough warships. North and South of the warring regions are in the East Coast region, because of the intervention of the Great Powers, the Federal Navy has not been able to obtain the advantage, the federal government naturally does not have the ability to send warships to reinforce the West Coast.
Of course, the Southern government’s navy was not present on the West Coast either, and the enemy that the western coastal states faced was the privateer fleet, in other words, the legal pirates.
After the outbreak of the Civil War, both the North and South issued privateer licenses in order to combat each other’s maritime traffic.
Because there were fewer islands on the west coast of the Pacific, pirates lacked supply points, and the west coast of the United States was relatively peaceful.
Aside from the occasional handful of pirate attacks by impromptu stringers, it was mostly far from the threat of war. That is, until a few months ago, when the situation changed and there were suddenly more pirates on the west coast.
Rampant pirates once captured the Channel Islands dozens of miles away from California, often attacking coastal ports, making the west coast states suffer.
It is clear to everyone that the pirates’ home base is in the Mexican Empire. The two countries have long been feuding, and there is nothing wrong with the Mexican government giving them trouble at this time.
Eliminate the pirates is not to think about, the civil war federal government have fought a very bitter, if you start a foreign war, then safekeeping can not eat and go.
Mexico how weak, but also not a few states on the west coast can be eaten. In addition to diplomatic protests, the federal government can do very little.
Against this backdrop, the Russian Far East fleet visited San Francisco and took out a pirate ship in the process. The Russian fleet, immediately, was warmly welcomed by the pirate-threatened people of California.
Originally, it was to pull the relationship of Rear Admiral Popov, a few glasses of wine, was touted not know the southeast and north, confused to make a commitment to combat piracy.
The speaker has no heart, the listener has the intention.
Participate in the banquet can not just Americans, ministers of various countries in California also appeared at the banquet. Despite the suspicion that everyone in the Civil War has pulled the strings, but the diplomatic etiquette of the Americans still have to comply with.
After the banquet, British representatives appeared in the Austrian Embassy in California.
“Carter, don’t you think the Russians are too arrogant? With these few broken ships of theirs, they still want to fight pirates, I think it’s more like giving pirates a fight!” British representative Rhodes tried
The Russians’ Far East fleet didn’t have a few ships in the first place, not to mention it was only a part of it, there was nothing strange about not being able to beat the pirates, after all, this wasn’t an ordinary pirate.
If the people who have the heart to investigate a little will find that this group of pirates from the Southern Ocean, Indian Ocean region. Appearing on the west coast, it must have been manipulated by someone.
The main reason for this to happen was still because of interest. Pirates robbing also need to sell the stolen goods, and there is naturally an interest in this.
Perhaps many people thought that unproductive piracy was a profiteering industry, in fact, mastering the stronghold of selling stolen goods is really profiteering.
The same goods, into the point of sale of stolen goods at most three or four layers of prices, earning the greatest benefits are never pirates, but behind the scenes of the stolen goods channel.
To be able to open up such a channel in Mexico, obviously not so simple. If there is no umbrella, it is estimated that it has long been eliminated by the navies of various countries.
There is no doubt that Rhodes was pulled down. For the Russians to crack down on the pirates is to cut off his finances.
Testing Austria’s attitude was nothing more than a fear that the Austrian fleet in Central America would stand up for the Russians. You can’t just take out the Russians on the front foot and then attract more trouble on the back.
The Austrian representative, Carter, was very cooperative and said, “There is no way around it, maybe the Russians have always been so arrogant. Maybe they still want to make a fortune by fighting pirates.
You know, the pirates have looted up to tens of millions of dollars in goods in these recent months, and even if only one tenth of that is left, it’s still a huge amount of money.”
Just about say it again, money is good. As long as the benefits are in place, it doesn’t matter if the entire Russian fleet is wiped out.
It’s not true that Russia and Austria are allies, but it doesn’t mean that there is no conflict in the interests of Russia and Austria. For example, now: Austria supports the Southern Government, the Russians support the Northern Government, the two sides are on opposite sides.
This happened, in order to avoid affecting the relationship between the two countries, we naturally have to avoid each other. Carter and the Russian representatives had no contact with each other except for a courtesy greeting.
In fact this made the position clear that it was impossible for Russia to obtain Austrian help on the question of the Americas.
There was more than meets the eye when the British struck the Russian fleet. Privately, it was because of personal interests that were damaged; publicly, it was to knock off the arrogance of the Russians.
Out to visit the fleet in the fight against the pirates, anti-piracy to be killed by the pirates. Once this kind of thing happened, the tsarist government would be ridiculed for at least twenty years.
The diplomatic support that the Russians had brought to the northern government by standing up to them would also be lost once and for all.
(End of chapter)