Russification turns revolution into borderland wars

Supplies and victory improve the monarchy's immediate position, but renewed Russification gives local movements a clear cause around which to organize. Britain or the United States could quietly keep Russia occupied by financing weapons routed through Sweden to Finland. A regime intent on finding enemies within is likely to intensify the coercion that produced those rebellions rather than compromise with the borderlands. The empire therefore exchanges one general collapse for several smaller but persistent civil conflicts during the 1920s.