章 104: Return to Orbit (4)

And Nicholas, who quietly observed all this.

"...With the Great War approaching, it's better for reason to be paralyzed now."

He saw this only as a means to minimize wartime social confusion.

To him, popularity had no value beyond or below that.

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Forcibly selling Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The next day, the colony Bulgaria notifies by telegram 'We're declaring independence'.

Seeing others helping themselves one by one, the Kingdom of Greece went ahead and swallowed Crete Island.

With people watching their country being driven out of Europe in real-time, internal chaos was inevitable.

So when Italy drooled over Libya with fork and knife in hand, Mehmed VI's resistance was an unavoidable choice to maintain the empire.

I'm not sure how to take the fact that there were more people who disappeared without a trace during battle than casualties on both sides in the first clash, but there's practically no direct impact on us.