Just a little thought experiment. At approximately 1700-level technology, assuming that both sides always have access to timber, and that nothing happens politically significant enough to bring the combatants to the peace table, how long can an active naval war be sustained before European timber supplies (Including European Russia) are effectively exhausted for naval purposes? Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean the war would end, as they would switch to North American sources, but let's not focus on that.
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