Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4923787-20131012165847/@comment-32656-20131113170232

Can, it was Swedish until the early 1800s. And the proposals were for it to be semi-autonomous, not independent or a personal union.

Simple, Hellerick: It wasn't. Russia and France were allied. Russia and the Brits were not. Mutual diplomacy between the Brits and the two parties calmed things down somewhat between them, and then German foolishness brought in the Brits. Simple.

Russia and Germany would not fight each other without another party starting it. The two had no real issues directly between them.

US and UK would not have recognized that Alaskan coup or intervened. Big difference between a native state having it happen to them and a Russian colony.

Nor would France and A-H ally.

Bulgarians and Serbs wanted no part of Bulgaria being in Yugoslavia.