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The whole force and power of this nation , if necessary , is to be used to bring victory to the Entente Allies , and to us as their ally in this war . It is for this reason that the most important task of Russian diplomacy does not consist in persuading the Entente diplomacy to revise something or other , or to abrogate something else , but in convincing them that the Russian revolution is absolutely reliable , and can safely be trusted . The French are planning to turn the 60th anniversary of D-Day , the Allied landings on the Normandy coast , into a major celebration of U.S. - French entente . Sazonov was of the opinion that in the event of a war , Russia 's membership of the Triple Entente would enable it to make territorial gains from neighbouring countries . As we have seen , this was no mere military entente .