East Africa's support for the Ottoman Empire and Persia was relatively simple and direct: it would help the two countries, especially the Ottoman Empire, build a certain degree of military capability.
The Ottoman Empire, which had once shaken Eurasia with its might, was not actually weak militarily even now. It could basically manufacture all manner of mainstream weapons used around the world on its own, much like the Far East Empire.
After all, the Ottoman Empire had a population of only a little over thirty million. If its military strength had been inadequate, it would have long since been swallowed alive by Tsarist Russia or the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
In fact, the Ottoman Empire had dragged its ancient body through more than a century of warfare with Tsarist Russia, while its exchanges with the nations of Europe had never ceased. The reason it had struggled to achieve anything was the slow establishment of a modern industrial system—a common problem among many ancient traditional countries.
"Constantinople, the Ottoman's Istanbul. The Ottoman Empire sits at the junction of the Eurasian continent, so its cultural, political, and economic exchanges with Europe are frequent. For various reasons, when Europe industrialized at breakneck speed, the Ottoman Empire was like a great ship too difficult to turn around. Yet that did nothing to diminish Constantinople's prosperity." Standing at the bow and gazing into the distance at Constantinople, East Africa's delegation head Mossled spoke.
The Ottoman Empire could be considered half a European country. Especially while its capital remained Constantinople, Constantinople as a whole was no inferior to other European cities in any respect.
Of course, that was no longer the case once one ventured into the Ottoman Empire's interior, because the capital was not representative. The capitals of African countries in his previous life had also been