It was Paul I who canceled Catherine I's expedition against Iran as he didn't like his mother's adventurism.
Also, what if Agha Mohammad Khan had not been assassinated? When Agha Mohammad Khan was assassinated, he was on his way to crush Kartli-Kakheti again. Do you think the Georgians would...
Let's quote two historians here:
(1) Dominic Lieven, The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution, p. 255: "In 1917, the liberal and moderate socialist parties all joined the provisional government and supported its commitment to remaining in the war. Their stance was...
What is the book?
BTW, the Spaniards were likewise surprised to find Muslims in the Philippines. It meant that Islam had spread much further than they thought.
An often forgotten fact is that the Criollos actually had some participation in the Spanish colonial administrations during the Habsburg era, it was the Bourbon reforms that limited the administrations to Peninsulares.
I assume you mean "Southwest", not "Northwest"
There was increasing Spanish settlement in the Southwest at this time as Spain had bought off the Comanches.
The Spanish population of New Mexico had finally outnumbered the Puebloans.
Also, how successful would the Spaniards have been dealing with...
Such a Russia is likely one that is satisfied following the conquest of the Northern Black Sea Coast and doesn't seek further wars with the Ottoman Empire.
I would argue that gaining access to the Black Sea and ending the Crimean slave raids was absolutely worth it for Russia but the wars...
FWIW, when I asked him, Jonathan Edelstein told me that he doesn't rule out the possibility of alternate universes but that he doubts very much that we could ever visit one as those universes would be out of causality with each other.