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+charles is right the threats to the east are growing by the day in the southern region the ottomans
+are restless and in the north the three emperors area growing threat to our influence the foreign
+office seem paralysed focussed entirely on forming alliances and unable to determine their best
+strategy i think they are mistaken in their outlook they focus too much on treaties and not enough
+on realpolitik as von rocha u wrote the law of power governs the world of states just as the law of
+gravity governs the physical world and we are perhaps too much inclined to overlook the real might
+of the more powerful and the inevitability of its political influence our task now is not to choose
+a favoured partner to control the others that way risks war an alliance will encourage a counter
+alliance and a dangerous escalation instead our strategy should be to maintain an admittedly uneasy
+peace between the emperors together they are the biggest political threat to our empire but as
+enemies of one another they also threaten our trading routes we need to induce them to work together
+while preventing them from forming a power bloc against our interest our most important weapon in
+this is confusion and mild distrust the best outcome would be to encourage a dysfunctional alliance
+between all three that makes it hard for the emperors to fight one another or us and in the ottoman
+crisis i think i sense an opportunity to do just that
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