Comments by "rejvaik" (@rejvaik00) on "Building the Anti-Russian Alliance || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. Poltava is what he's referring to most likely yeah Sweden took such a pounding from that and I know that it's an over used joke from WW2 yada yada yada but this time it's actually relevant the invading Swedes didn't plan well for the Russian winter as they launched the offensive to both invade Russia and capture Moscow in the fall, and the Russians do what they do best: scorched earth and hit and run tactics as the invading enemy suffers from the weather And it was BAD! 1708-1709 was one of the coldest winters ever recorded at the time, they were severely weakened as a result and when spring finally came the Russian army met the Swedes at Poltava and defeated them quite soundly they never again were the dominant power of northern Europe, instead Russia took that title and held onto it from the 18th 19th and 20th centuries
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  2. But you're also part of the Nordic countries as well And to make it even more confusing, if one were to be technically correct (the best kind of correct) and exclusively refer to the Scandinavian peninsula it would include Finland and exclude Denmark
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  3. This is true but Germany did do colonization and atrocities prior to both WW1 and WW2 in Africa, specifically in modern day Namibia. It was the first genocide by the unified German Empire State and it went from 1904 and lasted 4 years
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