I don't think you know as much about history as you think you do the Ottomans didn't enter the war until late 1914 long after they had marched on Germany. Of wh

I don't think you know as much about history as you think you do the Ottomans didn't enter the war until late 1914 long after they had marched on Germany. Of which there were no buffer states at the time between them and Russia. Futher the Ottomans were the ones who attacked Russia first, after the war had already gone on several months. Russian involvement with Germany had almost nothing to do with Eastern European political ambitions and everything to do with the treaty between Russia and France guarenteeing Russia's protection of France in the event of conflict with Germany. Russia only got involved, not out of a desire to beat down Austria-Hungry but to protect Serbia, which had an implicit promise of protection from Russia, against the Austro-Hungarians. Russia's only major gain from the great war was ever going to be the squashing of German power before it could challenge Russia in the East, and turned out to be the biggest mistake in Russian history.