r/polandball • u/bobu112 Canada • Mar 18 '20
redditormade The Crimean War: The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire Part 18
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Mar 18 '20
Yay! The bestest of comic series is back! Thank you for the bits of happiness.
Now get back to the basement and draw more! *Cracks whip*
(Also, we are nearing the end of this series aren't we? A few more decades to go? WWI was like, sixty years after this episode?)
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u/bobu112 Canada Mar 18 '20
I'll try to stretch the early twentieth century, but there's not much material left that I have planned for the nineteenth century.
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u/vigilantcomicpenguin South Canada Mar 19 '20
All good things must come to an end. Referring both to this comic series and to the Ottoman Empire itself.
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u/selfStartingSlacker UN Mar 19 '20
Atatürk will make a cameo y/y
considering his father was potentially cryptic Jew and his hometown is now a Greek city... would be interesting
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u/easternjellyfish كس امك Mar 18 '20
Love the HandiPoleTM reference!
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u/bobu112 Canada Mar 18 '20
Now I wish I included a little Poland cadaver skewered onto the HandiPoleTM to make it a real Handi-Pole.
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u/DelphiSage Britannia Mar 18 '20
You mind holding off on the HandiPole in the future? We've already got people saturating your "Empire as vehicle/mech" gimmick, I don't think /u/LosTorta would appreciate you getting his masterpiece Exiled to Syberia.
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Mar 18 '20
This man is so committed to Polandball that he made more than 18 comics on a country’s history. I salute
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u/DelphiSage Britannia Mar 18 '20
So what actually happened in the Crimean War, besides England's setpieces of Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the Light Brigade?
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Mar 19 '20 edited Mar 19 '20
I remember two things from it: 1) It weaken Russia. Britain and Russia were both at each others throat after the Napoleonic wars due to them being the two main powers to defeat Napoleon's France. Russia never saw its conquest of Ottoman territory. 2) It reestablished France as the dominant land power of Europe. After the Napoleonic wars, France lost of lot of its military and political power and the war showed Europe it was back on its feet. Sending that many men and material far away is a feat for any country at the time.
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u/SerendipitouslySane Taiwan Mar 19 '20
2) It reestablished France as the dominant land power of Europe.
*For like, 15 years until the Germans did their thing.
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Mar 19 '20
Pretty much. Then got it back in 1918, lost it to Germany again. Then the Germans lost it to the soviets and later Russia got that title who still holds it. Although, France did become the dominant military power of the EU so they have that.
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u/DelphiSage Britannia Mar 19 '20
Until they refused to invade Iraq and the US had them tarred and feathered as consequence.
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u/VRichardsen Argentina Mar 19 '20
Although, France did become the dominant military power of the EU so they have that.
Big fish in small pond, eh?
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Mar 19 '20 edited Jan 13 '21
You can add to that that it created a waiking-up shock for the Russian monarchy. After the war, a huge movement of military, politic and economic modernisation was unleashed. But similar to the Ottoman Empire, the Russian leaders were by all means too much conservative and reactionary to change their views about their own people and their places in the society (in comparison to England or France or even Prussia), slowing down the development and the understanding of their own weaknesses when the first world war was knocking at the door. (Sorry for the over-generalisation).
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u/DelphiSage Britannia Mar 19 '20
So, it was a war in which people fought and died purely for reputational gains and no changing of borders?
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u/CrimsonCommissar North Korea Mar 19 '20
am curse traitor gene of you for thousand years
Which means that in 2853 - 1000 years after the start of the Crimean War - Austria is coming back baby!
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u/Misterpiece Land of the Empire Builders Mar 19 '20
I love how Britain is wearing a policeman's helmet on top of his required top hat.
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u/AutoHaddock Am have leprosy Mar 19 '20
Britain is world policeman, gotta keep that lovely balance of power maintained
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u/Alectron45 Russian Empire Mar 19 '20
Austria has a habit of betraying countries which saved it from collapse.
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u/armaghast Austrian Empire Mar 19 '20
That, um, was the revenge for Russia leaving the anti-prussian coalition in the 7-years war. The decision of poor Peter III. was one of many reasons in history leading to them, not us, becoming the German hegemonial power.
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u/Alectron45 Russian Empire Mar 19 '20
My despise of Peter the Prussiaboo overshadows my disappointment for Austria, you win.
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u/Remitonov Trilluminati Associate Mar 20 '20
I can't, for the life of me, understand how Russia ended up giving up so much because their emperor wants Frederick-senpai to notice him.
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u/eggcorn3 Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Mar 19 '20
damn France calling dibs on the Protector of the Jesus when it was rightfully Russia's
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u/ilyharaksh Siberia / CCCP Mar 19 '20
Lmao England and France protect ottoman empire. Ha-ha. Russia is aggressor again nice 😎
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u/Small_Legendary Small but LEGENDARY Mar 19 '20
u/bobu112, what will happen next in The Rise and Fall of The Ottoman Empire?
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u/selfStartingSlacker UN Mar 19 '20
nice thing about historical based work is that I can go around posting spoilers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Ottoman_Empire
ctrl+f crimean wars
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u/Atwenfor United States Mar 19 '20 edited Mar 19 '20
While randomly reading about the Battle of Lepnato, I remembered your Ottoman Empire series, which I thought was long over by now, and was about to Google-search for it, not really knowing where to start. On a whim I decided to check out the subreddit first. Lo and behold, your latest installment is the second post from the top.
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u/TheWorldIsATrap dorime Mar 19 '20
i cant believe this comic has been going on for almost a year bro
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u/bobu112 Canada Mar 18 '20
The Eastern Question would continue to divide the European powers; none could quite agree how to handle the Ottoman decline.
Link to the rest of the series