"Your Majesty, intelligence has arrived from Transcaucasia. A fierce conflict has broken out within the Three Peoples United Kingdom. Our intelligence personnel judge that this country may collapse in the near future," intelligence chief Sim reported to Ferdinand.
Ferdinand was taken aback, then immediately understood. This was not saying that the Three Peoples United Kingdom was about to collapse—it was plainly asking whether they should let the Three Peoples United Kingdom collapse!
The Three Peoples United Kingdom's internal problems had already accumulated to the breaking point. If not for the pressure of survival, internal strife would have erupted long ago.
Even though Victor Kisis controlled the army, they were still on Russian soil. Whether they could move against those opposition factions depended on whether the Russians were willing to allow it!
The three main ethnic groups together accounted for only a little over half of the kingdom's population, while there were more than thirty ethnic groups with populations exceeding ten thousand. One had to remember that this little kingdom's total population was only 1.86 million.
If it were merely an ethnic issue, there might still have been hope of resolving it. The crucial problem was that the Three Peoples United Kingdom had no territory of its own. All its citizens were living under the roof of the Russian Empire, working for others!
This was not some later age full of saintly do-gooders. Naturally, they did not dare make a fuss about independence within the Russian Empire.
Victor Kisis's proposal to find a piece of land and establish a state was already an idealistic notion. Unless they went and seized it, they should not expect anyone to willingly offer them land!
Of course, if they had been as deep-pocketed as the Jews, perhaps they could have bought a piece of land