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In the "Europe of the Three Empires" TL, one possible POD to get a permanent Roman Mesopotamia is to have Crassus successfully seize it. Someone in another thread said if the Republic took territory, they'd keep it.
(The Empire had a more cautious foreign policy because the Emperors didn't want generals challenging them for power.)
So how might Crassus actually defeat the Parthians?