For whatever reason Napoleon III doesn't care about Russian southward expansion and is less friendly with the UK, thus doesn't join the Crimean War. If France didn't join, Sardinia likely wouldn't either. Would the Ottomans and the UK still win? Would the UK still land in Crimea? How long would this alternate war last?
WI: France and Sardinia don't join the Crimean War
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Would the UK even risk getting involved on the ground, without a continental ally besides the Ottomans?
FillyofDelphi
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Most likely, considering one of the big reasons for the attack on the Crimea in the first place was a kind of national embaressment about just sitting around while the Turks were beating back the Russians in Romania-Bulgaria and making a fair showing in the Caucauses.
But this. Russia has no excuse to even declare war if Nephew Nappy isen't pressing for the title of Protector of Eastern Christians.
The US continues to court both Sardinia and Russia, to the extent that their non-interventionist stance allows them. If memory serves me right, the US had to choose between the two during the war and they chose Russia.
No. Probably take the Czar up on his proposal, that we help ourselves to Egypt as a consolation prize.
There is no way a guy like Napoleon III let a chance like this go. A republic without an ambitious descendant of Napoleon will help.
And it was France that actually justified the Russian war against the Ottomans.