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weak government
Bad geographical area, sorta like Germanys to make a simple comparison
>>52011839
>>52011813
the worst internal factor - multiculti
the worst external factor - three despotic ang highly militarised neighbours
>>52014987
>ang
and, ofc
>>52011813
>putting poles in charge of ANYTHING
They can't even manage their own fucking alphabet.
>zbrzrbzbrzwczczszsz
>>52011813
>>52011839
>>52015184
>>putting poles in charge of ANYTHING
Poles elected a Swede as king and everything went to shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Swedish_union
>>52011813
"the deluge"
>During the wars the Commonwealth lost approximately one third of its population as well as its status as a great power.[7]
>...Warsaw... was completely destroyed by the Swedes, and out of a pre-war population of 20,000, only 2,000 remained in the city after the war.[9]
>Swedish invaders completely destroyed 188 cities and towns, 81 castles, and 136 churches in Poland.[10]
Also, reminder that this started in the 1650s, right after the 30 years war, where Swedes were responsible for killing off 1/3 of the German population
>>52015184
hmm...
>The Continental Army first occupied West Point, New York, on 27 January 1778;[7] and is the oldest continuously-operating Army post in the United States.[8] Between 1778 and 1780, the Polish engineer and military hero Tadeusz Kościuszko oversaw the construction of the garrison defenses.[9] The Great Hudson River Chain and high ground above the narrow "S" curve in the river enabled the Continental Army to prevent British Royal Navy ships from sailing upriver and thus dividing the Colonies.[10][11] As commander of the fortifications at West Point, Benedict Arnold committed his act of treason, attempting to sell the fort to the British.[12][13] After Arnold betrayed the patriot cause, the Army changed the name of the fortifications at West Point, New York, to Fort Clinton.[12] With the peace after the American Revolutionary War, various ordnance and military stores were left deposited at West Point.[14]
>>52015259
Brzwy szwn kwiewkzrzy Szczrzbrz k dreszczki, grdny h gdenksz kwlrzbrz
>>52015344
>americans need vowelcrutches
Liberum fucking veto, which paralized any governmental action and keked us all to hell. It was like the political version of a safespace.
>>52015245
You're making us out to be the bad guy when literally all of europes history is europeans killing each other, except in a few notable cases.
>>52015344
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
>>52015581
It doesn't help that it allowed Sweden, Russia, and Prussia to kek you by bribing nobles. Not that they needed to, the nobles would cooperate with foreign nations on their own imitative to try and settle personal disputes. The Deluge wasn't a case of "poor polan, no bully pls"; the Swedish king was literally invited by discontent Polish and Lithuanian nobles to rule.
>>52015916
He was a descendant of Jagiellon dynasty, and the idea was to drag Sweden into union, starting from personal union. That's why he won the election. It worked for few years and then Swedes fucked up everything by supporting the usurper in their country.
>>52016068
>Swedes fucked up everything by supporting the usurper in their country.
That's a matter of perspective.
>>52016297
Bollocks. Imagine Karl XII ruling such union. Peter the Great could shove his cannons cast from church bells right in his ass.
>>52011813
>C*tholicism
>Elective monarchy
>lack of Polonization
>not destroying Russia in 1612
>not destroying HRE
>not annexing Prussia
>not allying with Ottomans
>>52016465
this
>>52016544
Also, we should have expanded west into our old ethnic lands and save Brandenburgian, Pommeranian and Bavarian slavs from Germanization.
But of course, we had to become subjects of German filth in 966.
>tfw we dint have a massive war of PLC, France, Denmark & Ottomans VS Russia, Prussia, Austria &Sweden.
It would have been so epic m8's ;_;
>>52017719
It would've ended before it started.
Prussia, Russia and Austria got stronger on Polish rotten corpse.
>>52018048
That was the later stages. But in the early good years it would have been epic.
anime
>>52018382
It's kinda overkill.
France was strong as fuck.
>>52018382
Anyway, what you're doing in Indonesia?
>>52015581
> keked us all to hell
>us
Like Litva had anything to say in that union
tl;dr Poles (with the help of Jews) had a really had time to manage all the subhumans within the country - mostly balts and east slavs
