French Empire
Mongols
Swedish Empire
German Reich
Why have so many failed to conquer all of Russia despite generally smacking the Russian army around outside of the nation?
Everyone undersestimates Russian leaderships lack of respect for the lives of their own people.
Russia 'beat' napoleon by burning down everything east of moscow and moscow itself. The peasants suffered greatly so the Czar could keep trading with enlgand. Its a fucking joke.
>>1173223
It's big, it's cold.
>>1173223
Commonwealth did it but the king didn't care because the boyars would only accept his son if he converted to Orthodox which he didn't want.
>>1173223
>Mongols
>failed to conquer Russia
Wut?
>>1173234
Didn't england was trading with other country afterward so the nobles were still fucked ?
>>1173281
According to that map the Mongols did run through the place and got into Eastern Europe but all of Russian was never completely part of the golden horde.
>>1173358
The Mongol conquest was Russia era of silence. Its a national humiliation that Russian histories kept silence. Poles and Magyars aren't to happy about it either seeing as how they tore through the region and only turned back due to deaths in leadership. Russian principalities were tributary vassals, if the horde asked them to jump they'd say how high. The internal collapse of the Mongols is the only reason the Ruskies expanded.
>>1173358
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarlig
>>1173223
Russia is like reverse Vietnam. They have the time honored strategies of obnoxious weather and throwing enough men at the enemy until they get annoyed and give up.
>>1173223
The problem with Russia is the further you get into it the war gets harder because your troops and supply lines begin to get spread thinner and thinner that it's near impossible to get very far at all.
It's like trying to spread butter on the road.
>>1173244
Biggest mistake Poland ever made.
They could have been massive, strong and not be part of a religion with a cuck pope.
>>1173281
>13th century
>Russia
This meme needs to stop.
>>1173411
Well officially he was a tsar for 2 years.
But how would that work? Would it be a separate state that happens to have a foreign monarch with perhaps some ties to the Commonwealth based on family relations? I know that Sigmund III would be the first to die and his son would be the ruler of both states (personal union) but Poland chose their monarchs in the elections. So would the Commonwealth change into a quasi-Holy Roman Empire. The elections would stay but the Vasa dynasty would win each time to rule both Commonwealth and Russia?
>>>1173388
They get annoyed and give up? Like nazis did in berlin?
>>1173234
This tbqh.
Russia "won" its wars because they could throw away lives and lands without betting an eye.
>>1173223
you dont conquer russia, russia conquers you
russians as a population are just especialy adapted to living there, thats all
>>1173358
>tributaries to the Golden Horde
