One thing that could really frighten Moscow would be to threaten kinetic sanctions against most of the export routes and all the Shadow Fleet vessels. This would imply a drastic drop in revenue and a potential collapse of the current Russian position as being an oil state without oil is not great

This one could be a struck of luck but it fits rather well with what I believe the Ukrainians are doing right now: escalate to de-escalate.

Basically ATM Kyiv is showing Moscow that it can dish out a lot of extra pain and that time may not be on VVP's side potentially in order to get a deal

At least indirectly.

The rise of Atlantic plantations crushed most of the Ottoman sugar production and a fair part of its cotton and tobacco. The extend to which those were dependent on slave labour is debated but it certainly did prevent the rise of a full-fledged slave system in the Empire.

Frigate for desert then

I think they’d send speed boats not the big ships but yeah that would be a sight

2) dispatch whatever remains of the Black Sea fleet and imprisoned loosing those hard-to-replace assets.

I haven’t dabbled in naval affairs since I crushed the Venetian at the battle of Morbihan but this looks like a master move.

(Sorry)

Pet pev but “petite bourgeois” is a diminutive female with zest and a certain amount of financial capital. A “petit bourgeois” on the other hand is a sub-elite which makes up in pent frustration what it lacks in cultural prowess.

So bad. And there would be no delays? Like I remember that when Obama lifted some of the Iran sanctions, it took literal months to have any noticeable effect.

masses” you are referring to not indeed why they’d need many Circassian slaves after the French occupation of Tunis and the large-scale Circassian migration to the Empire.

I’m genuinely puzzled.

Ok, I’ll admit being more familiar with the strictly Mediterranean side of the Empire but as far as I know beyond a few ennuchs in Topkapı, some persistant mamluks in Tunis and Cairo and some unfortunate prostitutes in Egypt, I have no idea what you are referring to. I have no idea to what “slave

noticeably 🇷🇺 companies?
3) would some sanction stay (say against the ghost fleet because they directly advantage the US economy)?
4) can European and UK sanctions (less of a vote but representing a lot more 🇷🇺 trade) alone still have a noticeable impact?

You might be referring to the Omani slave trade which picked up after 1815 and which only affected peripheral regions of the Empire (Basra, Hedjaz and some parts of Egypt)

I think you’re mistaken. Leaving aside some very specific cases such as Tunisian mamluks and Tripolitan slave raids. The bulk of Ottoman slavery declined when 1) European navies managed to prevent raids from Barbary 2) agrarian slavery declined with the demographic boom after c.1730.

Yeah no. That ain’t true. Entire regions in India and China were at least as developed as the most advanced areas in Europe. I suggest having a look at Kenneth Pomeranz’s The Great Divergence. It’s still up-to-date and it’s highly readable.

Pepper this with India’s and later Egypt’s taxes furling the investment boom in the City and you have a pretty strong argument that colonies were well near necessary factors for the rise of Euro industrialisation as we know it. Not sufficient of course but necessary.

Access to Cuban, Canadian, Ottoman and Russian wood was also critical for Euro navies in the pre-steel era.

Then there is the little matter of colonial demand allowing Euro industries to reach economies of scale (true for Ottoman and American colonies).

There’s a debate actually. There is an argument to be made that colonialism more or less directly made Europe’s rise possible.

See for instance the importance of the “ghost acres” ie Russian and American wheat fields that allowed the decline of cereal production in the industrial core.