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+the russo turkish war has been all that we feared russia has played her hand perfectly building
+support for action with her allies in germany and austria and effectively marginalising the british
+position while appearing to be amenable to an international solution our strategy of sowing
+confusion among the allies worked to delay the inevitable and i comfort myself that this delay
+achieved two things first we were able to develop our agent network within the diplomatic services
+of our enemies and second we were able to begin to negotiate with other leading powers to present
+our own solution to the turkish problem nonetheless my methods have not been universally popular in
+whitehall and i have expended considerable energy fighting enemies within now finally with the
+prospect that peace might be bought at the impending congress in berlin i can begin to hope for a
+resolution when i said this to playfair he corrected me and said that i must surely mean brought but
+it is my view that all victories worth winning are bought and often at great cost my hope is that
+our new methods of diplomacy might succeed at a much lower cost in lives all of the major powers
+have begun to see the gathering threat that war may erupt across the continent and all have realised
+that they have something more to lose from further conflict if we can control the agenda at berlin
+then i believe we may see away out of the crisis the pan slavic movement aims to unite the slavic
+states in the same way that germany and italy have been unified but is deeply split between those
+who believe that the locus of its power should lie within russia and those who seek a balkan
+solution the balkan states themselves remain divided with varied cultural and political ambitions of
+their own and no clear idea of which party should lead the unification perhaps that is misleading it
+is not that they lack a clear idea but rather that there are very many rival views and these are
+incompatible the question of how and whether this unification might be achieved is the principle
+concern of the congress all of the major powers william sure have a view but my focus is on the
+smaller states and parties my agents across the balkans have nurtured instability in the hope that
+we can bring pressure to bear through the mon the major powers of course the frenzied atmosphere of
+the diplomatic bazaar in germany will be rich in trading opportunities and i have heard rumours that
+we may gain cyprus cementing our control of the mediterranean trade routes at the same time by
+trading macedonia back to the ottoman state we hope to undermine russian territorial gains and
+perhaps to settle the balkan question permanently if so our agent network in bosnia will give usa
+foothold in that region i will continue to work closely with them in the hope of creating a new and
+more secure future
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