Is there a bigger clusterfuck in history than the Crimean War?

>>2821628
they were mental about the balance of powers during that time period

Containing the Russian bear isn't exactly "nothing"

>>2821645
>sacrificing Constantinople for short sighted geo strategic interests is good
Oh perfidious Albion, one day Christendom itself shall fall because of your cunning.

>>2821669

Good, Islam is the true path.

>>2821640
To be honest, English and later British foreign policy was always to side with the underdog.

At least for Britain, balance of power politics started way before the 19th century,

>>2821706
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37iHSwA1SwE

>>2821645
>containing a white Christian empire so you can save a bunch of goatfucker muslim Turks
Inshallah

>>2821747
bailing out Greece with tax payer money , genius policy

>>2821751
Russians aren't that different than Turks, really.

>>2821751
Though I agree Britain and France shouldn't have fought Russia, from their perspective Russia really was a threat.

Firstly, Nicholas I had some serious image issues. Pretty much everyone in western Europe though he was an unstable megalomaniac.

Russia was also seen as basically an evil empire at that time even more so than today.

>>2821760
Wasn't that actually one of the things that eventually led to Brexit? I seem to recall Farage bringing up the idea of Britain footing Greece's bill at some point.

>>2821768
t. Schlomo Nigel Mehmetoglu

>>2821768

This. Turks and Russians look pretty much the same.

30 years' war was even more useless.

>>2821751
t. Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov

>>2821628
There are a lot of stupider wars.

It contained Russia you nigger

>>2823605
It broke Habsburg power, prevented a unified Germany, and started an era of French hegemony.

>>2821628
8,000,000–12,000,000 people died in the Dungan Revolt because two guys had a disagreement over the price of some bamboo poles.

>>2823639
To be fair, China always has extreme death tolls and the Qing Dynasty was a batshit insane period near the end of its life.

>>2823637
Plus made Sweden a Great Power, took away the german ability to build any relevant navy, stopped the spread of Protestantism, opened the key passes into Italy, caused the independence of the Neitherlands and Switzerland, fucked up Spain for good and gave us some of the most famous (well, probably depends) generals and statesman of that Age-

>>2823639
The Taiping Rebellion is even more ridiculous.

>>2821669
You do realise it was the French that were the main advocates for action against the Russians right?

>>2823672
>stopped the spread of Protestantism
>Good
Protestant countries bring wealth, prosperity and high living standards. C*tholic countries bring corruption, pedophilia and poverty.

>>2823691
>20–30 million dead (best estimate).

What the fuck?