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Matters of mutual consent always yield results with ease. Indeed, the Tsarist Government swiftly convinced Austria, and both sides unanimously decided to give the Ottoman Empire a thrashing.
Now it is just some detailed issues that still need to be communicated. For instance, when to attack? Where to start the attack from? Distribution of the benefits after the war...
Having reached a preliminary agreement, Alexander II's mood did not relax. The state of the Russian Empire was not good, and theoretically, it was not a suitable time to provoke a war.
The Ottoman Empire was not the first choice of the Tsarist Government, and if possible, Alexander II would have preferred to strike the Kingdom of Prussia at this moment.
Unfortunately, the Vienna Government did not cooperate, no matter what terms they offered, even the support for Austria to unify the German Region, they failed to move the Vienna Government.
