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... p> On February 21, 1852, the Ottoman Empire rejected the Russians’ impudent demands, and the Constantinople negotiations ended in failure, making the Russo-Turkish war inevitable.
That did not come as a surprise to anyone, as Russia’s demands were such that no one could possibly agree to them.
If it had just been a matter of knocking off a little bit from the edges, perhaps the decaying Ottoman Government might have endured it, but to swallow them whole was beyond any possibility ...
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