The British prime minister."Your excellency, the foreign minister of Mainz has left Strasbourg. He has inflamed public opinion in Strasbourg and had directly stated that Mainz has no intention to unify the Gretan region by force." said my foreign minister. I don't trust those crafty politicians who can lie straight out of their mouths. At least they are not as bad as the politicians in Kildare, as we have a lot more experience lying to the people as we are a democracy. I was pretty surprised and worried when I heard that Mainz was moving to unify the Gretan region. That would put a damper on the continental balance we were trying to create. At the same time, it would make the capitalists angry with us as Kildarian industrial products dominate the north Gretan market. If Mainz conquers it, they will take the market, and we will lose a source of revenue. Dealing with these capitalists is just tiring. In Mainz, the capitalists are weak, but at the same time, the military aristocracy is strong. This is a problem all rulers have to deal with, pleasing all of the factions in the country in exchange for national interests.

"Do you think that the foreign minister is telling the truth? They might just be misleading us and trying to make us lower our guard." I asked the foreign ministry

"They have mobilized around 100,000 troops, but they placed all of them in the border of Karaman empire. Their strategic material is also on the Karamanite border, and they are currently supplying the Rostok empire. They can't start a war without any troops, only 5000 soldiers on the border. If they wanted to start an invasion, they would have needed to make more preparations." said the minister of war.

"Don't they have the capabilities to mobilize troops to attack Strasbourg." asked the minister of foreign affairs.

"They can mobilize many troops in a short amount of time. This is because they have a mature mobilization system, unlike us, due to the abundance of their funding. We spend all of our funding on the navy, don't we?. To answer your question, their mobilized troops in a short amount of time don't have much combat effectiveness and are trash." said the minister of the army while at the same time asking for funding.

The conflict between the army and the navy doesn't end, does it. The navy gets most of the funding as we are an island nation with a large colonial empire. The army receives very little money compared to the navy and is the worst army among the great powers. Well, this is normal. They ask for funding every chance they get and receive none.

The minister of finance coughed and looked away, during which the admiralty had a gloating expression on their face.

"There is another problem. The battle of Bulgaria is just sapping our finances, and it looks like there is no end to it. When will the battle of Bulgaria be finished?" asked the ministry of finance.