i dunno, i think that russia was angling for something at the time as well... they were just about to come help out turkey with unruly bulgaria around those times and the bulgarians drove out the turkish army long before the russians arrived
so that is the turkish vassal on the eastern flank of the austro-hungarian empire
the russians quietly snatched up their nice coal and cheese factory and the oil wells to the north and most likely spent a lot on getting the yugoslavs to not be all irritable about having one country with their puppet Tito
the chess game between russia and england has been going on way further back than that time, it goes way before this too... and it's complete nonsense to say that the oligarchy actually changed in russia, or england, in the last 200 years or so, it's the same families and the same networks
there is some reason to believe that the oligarchs of the east are not motivated by the same things... there was some story about a nation that fled the middle east to the north after being kicked out by everyone around them, idk, ashkinazi is what i've heard they were called, but they were essentially Canaanites and the Russians gave them sanctuary in exchange for converting to judaism, and this little clan had a vendetta from then on, and later took control of the british empire and kicked all this shit off
i'm pretty sure the general points are correct in this, and that it's the continuation of ancient vendettas that appear first in Genesis tied all the way back to Cain and Abel and surviving through one of the ofspring of Noah through that cataclysm, and then again, later, through the Babel and Sodom thing
i dunno if the contemporary members of these two factions are what their great ancestors were exactly, or how much of all this has been lost in an ancient vendetta that is just "we hate them and must destroy them" but certainly at least Edgar Cayce seemed to indicate that some kind of rationality would appear in these times from the east