Evaluation
George Grant suggests that the succession of wars was a result of the Romanov Czars' belief that "a forcible containment of the Islamic threat to their strategic security was absolutely crucial." He goes on to note that "none of these struggles ever resulted in much change in the balance of power in the middle East."
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