Greece receives Salamis and continues buying fewer ships, while the Ottoman Empire completes its own capital-ship orders to preserve numerical superiority. Russia's simultaneous expansion of its Black Sea Fleet adds another competitor. Trying to answer both rivals could bankrupt an already fragile Ottoman state even as the new ships became outclassed by later foreign designs. Fiscal collapse could then turn into civil war and invite neighboring states to intervene for territory. That disintegration supplies a very different and specifically naval-linked ignition point for a wider conflict around 1920.
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The Ottoman naval race that could trigger war in 1920
Greek, Ottoman, and Russian capital-ship programs could bankrupt and destabilize the Ottoman Empire, providing a new route to general war around 1920.