Fair point. That said, though, just what would it have taken to significantly improve the Russian domestic situation?That's ignoring the situation at home entirely though.
Fair point. That said, though, just what would it have taken to significantly improve the Russian domestic situation?That's ignoring the situation at home entirely though.
Fair point. That said, though, just what would it have taken to significantly improve the Russian domestic situation?
I was thinking of something like more railroad construction in the pre-WWI years and decades and/or having Gallipoli be successful.Uh, going back in time a century to pull their feudal heads out of their feudal asses? That's all I've got, sorry.
Though of course the Germans weren't doing that great at home either and the less said about Austria Hungary's home situation, the better, so Russia could conceivably limp along on the defensive until a peace of exhaustion.
I was thinking of something like more railroad construction in the pre-WWI years and decades and/or having Gallipoli be successful.
France? Britain? The US? Italy? Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Japan might be less likely due to them being historical and/or current Russian rivals, no?Hmm, but with what investment? Russian industry is anemic at best, it needs someone pumping up cash into the country if you want better infrastructure.
Which by the way might be the way to go? Find someone willing to develop the country and you could solve quite a few issues.
France? Britain? The US? Italy? Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Japan might be less likely due to them being historical and/or current Russian rivals, no?
A stronger and/or more internally stable ally?The problem is why? What are the expected returns and all that.
A stronger and/or more internally stable ally?
But the US already has plenty of natural resources of its own. What does Russia have that the US itself doesn't have?That's really not enough of a reason for the states of the era to pour capital into another state they might not be allied with forever when they could invest it in themselves.
I think you need greed instead. Maybe an American coalition of investors after Russia's resources?
Cheap workers to extract them, probably. But you're right.But the US already has plenty of natural resources of its own. What does Russia have that the US itself doesn't have?
Wasn't US labor pretty cheap back in 1917?Cheap workers to extract them, probably. But you're right.