THE RUSSIAN EAST INDIES

How can you make the Russian Empire acquire a colony in SE Asia?

POD must be after the reforms of Pyotr the great...

The territory must be roughly analogous to present-day Malaysia, Indonesia, and of course, my beloved land Katagalugan (Philippines)...
 
After thier victory at Tsushima, the Russians run amok, and take over all kinds of SE Asia:rolleyes:
 
Well, what about later ? i mean, the Soviets had a big presence in Vietnam after 1975, esp with their naval base at Cam Ranh Bay, and at the time Russian was a very popular 2nd language for Vietnamese, so WI there was a bigger Soviet colonial presence there in the 1980s so that the Hanoi regime became a Commie puppet state along the lines of Bulgaria ?
 
After WWII is far too late for colonies.

OTOH, there was a communist coup (which was quickly countered by another one by Suharto) in Indonesia in 1965, so more communist influence might be possible. And you can't claim the East Indies without controlling Indonesia, no?
 

general_tiu

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Maybe the Czar have a deal with the French about Indochina...or...turn Siam into a Russian protectorate....However, IMO, there is little possibility of a Russian Southeast Asia.
 

Rocano

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Russians fight earlier War with Japanese. Russians crush them and take many Cities as Military Bases. Russia begins to buy up Cities in China. Russia Invades Siam and takes over creating a protectorate. Is this ever going to possible?
 
If Russia is less successful in the West she could turn more to the East

OTL she owned Alaska, had claims further down the coast, had trading settlements in California, incorporated a Russian-American Company and had forts in parts of Hawaii

Now, from THIS instead of focusing into the N American interior, a Russian Empire that holds onto these and then expands into the PACIFIC could end up taking the Philippines from Spain, and then expanding into Spanish-influenced areas in the region, competing with the Dutch and the British, perhaps offering the Sultan of Johore a working protectorate such as Russia may by this time have established at Hawaii ?

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Grey Wolf
 
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