Will Kürlich Kerl
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What happens if Great Britain and Prussia joins Sweden and the Ottoman Empire in its war against Russia and Austria in 1788?
What happens if Great Britain and Prussia joins Sweden and the Ottoman Empire in its war against Russia and Austria in 1788?
Anything in particular worth fighting about?
Both countries were worried about growing Russian and Austrian power at the expense of the Ottoman Empire, and were worried that Russia and Austria were winning too many battles against the Ottoman Empire and expanding too much too fast in the Russian-Turkish and Austro-Turkish wars respectively that were going on at the time.
due to some enormous failure of diplomacy, Prussia finds itself at war with Austria and Russia (maybe over Poland? Austria sees an opening to push through its Bavarian claims against the League of Princes by drawing in Russia with a promise of Prussia's Polish interest and territories?) Britain, at this point alienated from both Russia and Austria, props up Prussia for fear of losing its continental sword. France points and laughs.
This way is probably the best way forward.
Although it does beg the question, could Austria have pulled Russia onto its side with promises of Polish booty during the Bavarian Succession War (or "Potato War") of the 1770s.
Prussia held the same amount of Poland (West Prussia) in both 1777 and 1788.
For that matter, could Prussia have gotten Russian support against Austria in the 1770s by promising Polish (Galician) booty.
Ottoman territory sounds far-fetched at that point. Britain wouldn't really be that interested, and Prussia would almost certainly not want to become Britain's catspaw, no matter how much money there was in it. They remember the Seven Years' War too well.
Perhaps it goes the other way around: due to some enormous failure of diplomacy, Prussia finds itself at war with Austria and Russia (maybe over Poland? Austria sees an opening to push through its Bavarian claims against the League of Princes by drawing in Russia with a promise of Prussia's Polish interest and territories?) Britain, at this point alienated from both Russia and Austria, props up Prussia for fear of losing its continental sword. France points and laughs.
This would be interesting once the Estates-General meeting goes down hill next year. Is the threat of revolutionary France enough to stop the hostilities?