Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4923787-20131012165847/@comment-5169980-20131118182840

The interest that a nation have is more likely to cause a war than keep a perfect balance of power, which Russia threaten to break by attacking the Ottoman, and what prussia does by uniting Germany into a growing power.

To really start a war of interest over Alaska, the Russian empire should have more interest in Alaska and in the far east to not immediately suffer a massive defeat that would make the war of 1904 look like a small border conflict (Japan beat Russia). Result of better interest, colonization and better infractructures.