Tarusa
Establishing Nation
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Baron Bakhmeteff had been chosen by the foreign ministry to represent the imperial interests and as a way to snub the European Forum and show its deficiencies should the negotiations prove fruitful. The Empire had intervened in Pannonia to prop up a government it had found similar interests in and ended up with itself a client state, its ambitions had since turned into solidifying the position of its client state and reconstituting its previous borders as much as possible bringing as many Csengians back within the boundaries as possible as well as subjugating the other minorities as smaller parts of the Kingdom.
If it had not been for the Whitaker Plan any conflict with the Germans could have resulted in Csengia being divided in half as had happened previously during the pannonian civil war. One only needed to look at the map and note that Kispest itself was not entirely secure and would be within easy reach of long range artillery fire if an immediate push was not achieved against any possible forces using Bourdignie as a staging ground. The Tsar was prepared for a large scale conflict, he knew he could have the upper hand in any such conflict with the help from the Frankish Empire that viewed the Germans as a threat as well. However, a peaceful solution from the EF had been tried and failed, and so he would once more seek the backdoor negotiations to achieve his goals, and should it fail, a great conflict would potentially engulf the continent.
The yacht sailed for the middle of the Gothic Sea, where it would await the arrival of all those invited. No grandeur shows, nothing extravagant was planned. Meals, accommodations, and negotiations. This was how the Tsar negotiated, no grand standing, but down to business in the dark shadows.
((@Skånskelag @Holy Frankish Empire))