The little incident on the Persian front failed to draw the Vienna Government's attention. Different positions led to different perspectives on the issue.
In Franz's eyes, whether it was borrowing passage or dragging the Russian Army along to attack Persia, it was all just a minor matter.
The Russians had not been drooling over India for merely a day or two. No matter what the Tsarist Government's upper ranks thought now, the nobles and bureaucrats at home were already unable to hold themselves back.
Even with their hands and feet tied by the Far East battlefield, it could not stop the Russians' ambitions toward India. Especially after the Holy Roman Empire Navy's great victory in the Battle of Malacca, the Russians' confidence that the Continental Alliance would win the war had soared straight through the roof.
Within the Russian Empire, the voices of the pro-war faction had already shot into the skies. What Russian nobles feared most now was: "We'll arrive too late, and the British will have surrendered."
This was no groundless fear. The previous Continental War had gone exactly that way—before they could even exert themselves, the French had surrendered.
The British Empire had far thicker assets than France. India alone was enough to leave the Russians unable to let go. If they acted too late and missed the chance to carve up India, there would be no medicine for regret.
Against such a backdrop, the Russian Army at the front would not only refrain from obstructing them; it might even go with the flow and directly join in.
In any case, Russo-Austrian joint operations were hardly unprecedented. According to past examples, fighting alongside the Austrian Army not only guaranteed logistics, but even raised the food standards by several grades.
As for political issues, people from different positions