Chương 298: Consolidating Gains From Victory in the Balkans

The victory in the Balkans, despite the losses sustained in the theater by the Central Powers served to strengthen their position on the global stage, and the war effort as a whole rather than derail it. And this was because of two reasons in particular.

Now that Constantinople had been reclaimed for Christendom, the path for the Russian Black Sea fleet was finally clear. Until now, the Russian contributions to the war had been entirely on land, as they were a nation lacking in the ability to contribute much in terms of naval supremacy.

Russia, having lacked warm water ports for the majority of its history as a nation, had little means to deploy naval assets so long as Constantinople remained in control of the Turks. But today was different, for the time being the Greeks were an ally, and they now held the city for the first time in nearly 500 years.