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It has been argued that Russia lost the Crimean War due to poor logistics. That if Russia had built railroads from St. Petersburg to Odessa and Vinnitsia and Sevastopol, the British would have not prevailed in the Crimean War; that poor logistics doomed Russia in the Crimean War.
So what would have happened if Tsar Nicholas I had reached an untimely end in 1850, soon enough for Alexander II to build some railroads into some sensitive border areas.? Would Tsar Alexander even attack the Ottoman Empire over the status of the Ottoman Empire's non Christian minorities? If so, would Russia or the Wallies win this war?