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It's certainly not without precedent in Chinese history. I do agree with the specific criticisms in that regard that doing so could be pushing it vis-a-vis Britain, but I think Russia could get away with a fair amount here.

But Russia did gobble up large amounts in the 19th Century and even during the height of the Great Game, in terms of fixing the borders both in Central Asia and Mongolia, as well as annexing Outer Manchuria in the first place to get Vladivostok. Russian control over Tibet would be a threat, but...

Britain didn't declare war over Pre Russo-Japanese War advancements of Russia into China, which saw the vast majority of Manchuria-including the warm water Port Arthur-fall into Moscow's hands, along with large areas of Xinjiang and essentially all of Mongolia.

The less ambition plan would secure for Russia the security belt they've been seeking for at least a century and a half (Both Mongolias, Xinjiang, and Manchuria), giving them the shorter railway route to Vladivostok, securing Siberia, and Manchuria and Mongolia in particular offer serious...

Sergei Witte definitely was none of those things, and his endorsement I think speaks volumes. I'd agree trying to take in all of China and Tibet was out of the question, which is why there was two proposals and the later one took the far more modest goal of Northern China, rather than all of it...

I'm of the school of thought World War I was not inevitable, and was entirely contingent about the reactions of the players and the situations on the ground, rather than being the structural end result of the European system. After all, all other crises had largely passed either without war or...

Getting Galicia in 1815, then Badmaev Plan in the 1890s combined with the "Lethal Otsu" incident in terms of partitioning the Ottomans and striking down Japan earlier would basically set the conditions for Russia to be the Superpower of the 20th Century honestly.

The Austrians did not want a Prussian annexation of Saxony, as it served as buffer for Bohemia. As for the Poles, at this time there was a movement among them to unite as many of the Polish ethnic territories as possible under one ruler, be it Prussian, Austrian or Russian. A Russian annexation...

Supposedly there was a serious chance for this in 1815, but the Saxony issue and the like killed it off. Something I've played around with before is a stronger Austrian presence in Italy supported by the Russo-Poles in exchange for Russia getting Galicia and thus also avoiding the Saxony Crisis...