ommon enemy of French power, but through their common fear of being crushed. For instance, Austria's policy of preventing Russia from taking over Turkey was not so much a policy to stop Russian advancement as a policy to ensure that Russia did not have an empire which encircled Austria- thus placing Austria in a bad situation of either a Franco-Russian alliance surrounding them, or a Franco-Russian war being conducted through their lands. The same can be said for Prussia, her neutrality policy was to make sure that a Franco-Russian war did not happen, since Prussia would be caught in the fight between the two nations on either side of her. Prussia is a good example since after the partition of Poland in 1795, Prussia and Russia were brought together, thus the polish buffer which protected Prussia was lost and the country thrown into problems as their price was Belgium which was given to the French, which brought Prussia further towards France. In effect, fear was surely linked to foreign policy that was linked to the countries current situation that all but Russia had to be aware of. The power of France in a capacity for destroyi
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