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Louis Napoleon's attempt to wrest control of the Christian Holy Places in Jerusalem for Catholic clergy was a near-term precipitating factor for the whole Crimean War.
What if Louis Napoleon either is not around, or is not interested in stirring the pot in the Holy Places.
How much longer could we plausibly go before another Russo-Ottoman War (because there were like a dozen of them between the 16th and 20th centuries)?