Smelling the scent of war in the telegram, Jerome Bonaparte immediately decided to convene a Cabinet meeting to "discuss" countermeasures.
Of course, calling it a discussion of countermeasures is less accurate than saying it was an inquiry into the readiness of the French Army and the timing of their entry into the Near East.
Although historically the Crimean conflict began around October, and the formal clash between the French Empire and the Russian Empire occurred in 1854, no one can guarantee that the Russian Empire won't launch a war in advance.
According to intelligence from the National Intelligence Bureau's Foreign Warfare Department, Paskievich of the Russian Empire has been deliberately spreading propaganda in the Black Mountain, Serbia, and Bulgarian regions, urging them to rise and overthrow the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
As for those useless spies under the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, they couldn't even notice Paskievich's little moves.
