Quote Originally Posted by Durallan View Post
be wary doing this with warmongering nations, I did that to the Mughal empire (and allied with them) and they got all the way to constantinople with my money, and then they declared war on my other ally venice. When I sided with venice, every ally IMMEDIATELY hated me, even my protectorates were hostile for defending an ally from an agressive one?, which makes NO SENSE. because that would mean if I went on the mughals side, everytime they decided to attack an ally of mine, I'd ahve to side with them and all my other allies would get wiped out and I wouldn't ahve been much of an ally to them.
Thing is in my game I was doing it because I was using the Ottomans as a buffer between the rest of Europe.

They were getting beat up in Africa by Spain and in Europe by Austria so I thought I'd help them in so they wouldn't get slaughtered.