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Before you tell me this is ASB, it nearly happened IOTL. Badly planned, Emperor Paul planned to invade India, with a focus on PR, and French support. It was planned to look a lot like Napoleon's Egyptian expedition, and we all know how that went. Paul didn't even have an accurate map of India with which to base his invasion on. Cossacks were sent into Central Asia to invade India from the north and had gone as far as the Black Sea, before being recalled after Paul's assassination. So, what if Paul had not been assassinated? How badly would the invasion go?
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