I'm glad that the Venetians are pacified for now, and with the Greek colonies being under Lascarid control there is no doubt who is top dog in the East Med: the Third Empire is without a doubt hegemony of the Eastern Med, with no one being strong enough to knock them down for now. The fact that the Venetians lost in such humiliating fashion due to losing their colonial empire and having recruitment problems after the straits are closed would be a huge black eye to the republic.
Also I don't see Venice not trying to hobble the third empire at least once or twice. This is a humiliation that I don't think the Venetians won't try to avenge at least once.
That would be very interesting for Venice to go for this, since it would be one of the few ways the Venetian polity would survive, but would it go and attempt to control the Po Valley as per otl, with the third empire being their enemy and allies to the third empire being there?Well, the OTL was a great example on how venetian policy was transformed. Once Venice lost its thalassocracy to the Ottomans, they focused on industry. If memory serves right, at some point Ragusa had a greater tonnage of merchant vessels that Venice. The Venetian patricians stopped being captains and invested heavily on their estates and industries. I would argue that this process had started by the beginning of the 15th century. At the same time, their oligarchic system ossified and social mobility decreased.
Also I don't see Venice not trying to hobble the third empire at least once or twice. This is a humiliation that I don't think the Venetians won't try to avenge at least once.
Yeah I agree that Sardinia is better ruled by themselves, and with the Lascarids and the local conditions in that point in time I could see them succeeding in doing so. Maybe we see Sardinia take over Corsica too, which would be interesting.Wait a minute, which islands are we talking about exactly ?, because I would much prefer a Sardinia governed by a local dynasty ( for once there is the possibility, so that he can entirely concentrate on improving the local infrastructure and not treat us like a colony ( the only ones who in OTL had given a minimum of attention to the island were, ironically, the Spaniards, rather than their Savoy "" compatriots "" ) rather than instead ending up being annexed to the former Despotate of Syracuse, thank you, but I would prefer to end up back in the hands of the Aragonese in case such a situation is even remotely taken into consideration ( Syracusian annexation of Sardegna ) , rather than the Savoys ( who for us Sardinians are not exactly the brightest example of a good government, to put it in a polite way.... ) if instead we mean Cyprus, Crete and Rhodes, then it's a completely different matter, and I am more than in favor of seeing them incorporated into the possessions of the Sicilian Basileus ( even if I have a small weakness for the Kingdom crusader of Cyprus and for the knights of Malta ... oops I meant Hospitallers 😜 )