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How do you go from this
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to this
Be a loose collection of medieval fieflords neighbouring absolutist monarchies.
>>1343183
pretty much /thread
>>1343166
It's actually because of Sweden
>>1343197
symptom =/= cause, if PLC worked as a proper state the invasion would never even get close to that bad
>>1343166
it's what happens when you have a 'state' that effectively only exists on a map and only does shit when every single noble agrees to do it
then you add a fuckload of corruption and foreign meddling into the mix
>>1343166
>Liberum Veto
All problems came from that line.
>>1343267
poor meme
>>1343235
And what were the Polish nobles thinking? Every country had nobles but only Poland managed to break apart so spectacularly because of them. Didn't they see their policies are horrible for the country? Didn't they care for their country at all? Did they preferred to be ruled by foreign monarchs? Like seriously I still don't get how it was really possible for a second largest country in Europe to be erased.
>>1343294
most had their interests in mind, but more importantly the nobles were more powerful thanks to all the privilages and each magnate simply had the amount of land and soldiers to oppose the king
>>1343294
>ruled by foreign monarchs
Poland was ruled by Saxons for awhile by then.
