The sudden outbreak of the Prusso-Danish War instantly made the situation in Europe grim.
The Danish Government demanded that all countries intervene in this war in accordance with the Prusso-Danish Armistice Treaty and the agreements reached by the countries under the Vienna System, and sanction the Kingdom of Prussia for breaking the rules.
In theory, the Danish Government's demands would be supported, and the Kingdom of Prussia would face joint suppression from the European nations. It might even have to pay enormous war reparations or cede territory as punishment.
Without a doubt, given the complex relations among the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and Austria, the Danes' demands would be difficult to satisfy.
Having learned its lesson from the Near East War, isolationism was now prevalent within the British Government. They advocated avoiding entanglement in European disputes as much as possible.
At the Prime Minister's residence on Downing Street, they were discussing how the London Government should position itself amid the ever-changing European situation.
Foreign Secretary Reslin analyzed, "The Prussians' sudden provocation of this Prusso-Danish War was mainly because the pressure from Russia, France, and Austria had become too great.
Bordering three great powers at once, with their homeland split into two separate parts, the Berlin Government had always possessed a strong sense of crisis. They feared that one moment of carelessness would see them carved up by those three nations.
As early as the Paris Conference of 1853, when the partition of the German territories was discussed, we proposed that the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Federal Empire exchange land. But because the differences between the two sides were too great, nothing came of it.
The Kingdom of Prussia lost an opportunity to unite its homeland and had no choice but to maintain massive armaments to ensure the