The Empire rises very quickly. Instead of developing its traditional extractive industries, Russia makes a leap in high technology and gradually fills the world market with its goods, pushing Western countries out. Discontent is brewing in the world.
“No, these overconfident Russians must be put in their place,” think the West.
“They’ve got too much territory, and we’re cramped,” think the East.
And both of them don’t realize what an army of the Russian Empire is like—and, with a light heart, they start a war.