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I'm going to start us off by nominating one that is totally outside of my area of historical expertise (which I got at the University of Reading Books).
REFORMATION THROUGH AGE OF LIBERTY SWEDEN
Why Sweden?
Because these absolute Chads managed to, for a short while, compete as a genuine European great power laying smackdowns on giants from Austria to Russia while also being a far more humane and nice society to live in than those.
Scandinavia was already on a good trajectory, being that it never really had serfdom in the same way that continental Europe did. Germanics have always had a tradition of liberty that is weak in Mediterraneanoids and unknown in the rest of the world (which is part of why, when I see people here bitching about old-school liberalism, I assume those words are being written by swarthy guido hands).
Now there's a common pattern that while geopolitical power is usually determined pretty hard by resources and population, sometimes a small, second-rate country can get its shit together so well for a while that it punches insanely high above its weight class. (In fact, this again is a common pattern with Germanics, the Dutch and British pull this off). For Sweden, they manage to figure out how to be gods of war first under Gustav Adolf, who liberates Protestant Germany from the Whore of Babylon, and then again under Charles, who lays smackdowns on Russia (evil serf slave-empire) and Polish-Lithuania (also evil serf slave-empire) until eventually the sheer weight of the Asiatic hordes overran them. Despite this, Sweden goes on to create one of the most peaceful, prosperous and happy societies on Earth, up until it, like seemingly all successful Germanic societies, became a victim of its own prosperity by catching the Gay.
Because of this I nominate Sweden for one of the most underrated European powers to LARP as. It doesn't go on to build a world empire like the British or kickstart modernity like the Dutch, but in a smaller tier, it's still an example of peak Germanic performance.
In a future episode I'll give you a similarly half-assed and shallow take on the Thais or Tlaxcala.
REFORMATION THROUGH AGE OF LIBERTY SWEDEN
Why Sweden?
Because these absolute Chads managed to, for a short while, compete as a genuine European great power laying smackdowns on giants from Austria to Russia while also being a far more humane and nice society to live in than those.
Scandinavia was already on a good trajectory, being that it never really had serfdom in the same way that continental Europe did. Germanics have always had a tradition of liberty that is weak in Mediterraneanoids and unknown in the rest of the world (which is part of why, when I see people here bitching about old-school liberalism, I assume those words are being written by swarthy guido hands).
Now there's a common pattern that while geopolitical power is usually determined pretty hard by resources and population, sometimes a small, second-rate country can get its shit together so well for a while that it punches insanely high above its weight class. (In fact, this again is a common pattern with Germanics, the Dutch and British pull this off). For Sweden, they manage to figure out how to be gods of war first under Gustav Adolf, who liberates Protestant Germany from the Whore of Babylon, and then again under Charles, who lays smackdowns on Russia (evil serf slave-empire) and Polish-Lithuania (also evil serf slave-empire) until eventually the sheer weight of the Asiatic hordes overran them. Despite this, Sweden goes on to create one of the most peaceful, prosperous and happy societies on Earth, up until it, like seemingly all successful Germanic societies, became a victim of its own prosperity by catching the Gay.
Because of this I nominate Sweden for one of the most underrated European powers to LARP as. It doesn't go on to build a world empire like the British or kickstart modernity like the Dutch, but in a smaller tier, it's still an example of peak Germanic performance.
In a future episode I'll give you a similarly half-assed and shallow take on the Thais or Tlaxcala.
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