this comment deserves more likes... its actually pretty spot on.

BlueGallade475 expect uk they never did 3,4,5

@Corman *European Empire*

Sweden had won 4 wars against russia before their first ever loss (agaunst russia), it had only been ties (peace) and swedish victory

And what about Russia?

- Actually, it does. Larger armies can suffer defeats without entierly collapsing. Smaller armies have a harder time occupying places and garrisoning towns and forts. Smaller armies have a harder time fighting on multiple fronts.

- It was not 25,000, it was like 350 or so. And a single person isn’t an army.

no 259 sniper kills and around 250 kills with other weapons

Dronning10 Yeah... Simo really earned his title

ye 500+ kills is impressive

Denmark from 800 to 1600/800 years: You wanna play with the big guys??

@@mikemikkelsen5666 Sweden kicked denmarks arse in the great northern war so weak

@@mikemikkelsen5666 "Big guys" Sweden turned Denmark into a small c¥m stain, thanks for Skåne Halland,Blekinge,Bohuslän btw.

@Абдульзефир 100 000 220 000 russians Died during the great Northern war idiot

They are, its called global warming patch 3.2. Check the update, maybe yours hasn't installed yet.

@Fabianinja Oh if you don't have the money, there's also a mod for it, it's called "CO2 emissions"

@operation r6 I just bought the dlc. And now I can finally beat Russia.

I got my Update last week, But Mine is "Update 19.42 Soviets Winter" Is that the right one?

With the patches of the last centuries to army technology you can put tech points into logistics and you won't get climate penalties, it cost more though Also the before mentioned climate change patch to all climates, it has been nerfed, but agricultural products have received a sun damage penalty and although no big war has occurred that can prove it, it probably will make big campaigns like invading Russia more costly

Cry because it'll never happen again... Or will it?

Conquering foreign lands... what is beautiful in it?

@@Redguard677 to see your nation rise again !

@@coronavirusokboomer9537 you do it on the costs of other people

@@Redguard677 well actually every nation did such Sweden was very lenient with their conquests as most peoples had rights like they had before

Even if we captured russia we whouldent have the men to control it.

@@tex4096 he didn't want to control it, he just wanted a better deal, he wanted to take more land from the russians, not take all of russia. that being said he should have taken the peace deal.

Charles was hardly a genius. Peter offered him peace and would give up all of his gains prior to the 1708 invasion had he'd just been given saint Petersburg and the land surrounding it. I understand Charles knew nothing but victory at that point, but he should've consolidated his gains and finished absorbing poland into his sphere of influence. He also didn't prepare for the great frost despite being swedish and living in one of the coldest countries on the planet.

Karl XII probably wasnt a Genius, but he was very rebellious and ambitious on his glorious Warlike Dreams. I think what made him interesting or seen as a genius, was his mistrust towards nobles at the court. Charles Father spent his life ridding Sweden from the corruption that the Nobles celebrated before him, so naturally his son would also inherit his fathers mistrust to the court. His father on the otherhand was the one who made Sweden strong and gave his son a chance to use it to defend Sweden. Alas Charles wanted more than just to defend his homeland.

charles was a tactical genius in league with alexander in napoleon, self evident from narva, holowcsyn, the crossing at duna, and countless other impossible victories. let's also not forget the fact that russia "just keeping petersburg" would mean splitting the swedish empire even further (into 4 parts), not sustainable at all. plus you've just allowed your main rival into the baltic sea which would greatly, and I mean greatly, hamper your income and improve theirs. it was 1707, or never, when it comes to sweden v russia.

Lord Cringeton A few hours later you Revoke The Privilegia and eat the rest of the colonizing nations.

Never saw that in my history books. Only saw Christian II.

Totte Fun fact: Denmark are red meat bastards who are full of shit.

Kristian Tyrann

Oooh you got triggered hard if you had to respond like that.

Jag minns Christian Tyrann i skolan

Best comment ever

Haha sant

The designer wasn't at fault, it was the king who ordered it to be too tall. On the Maiden voyage a gust of wind fucking tipped the ship so it sank.

Troupbomber combined circumstances

Seen it in real life... and it was fucking bound to sink. The water level only covered 2/5 of the height of the ship. It was WAY to tall and the water level was too low and the center of gravity was way up, a simple gust of wind made it tilt sideways.

Lenny I have seen it too, and I agree

That is a common misconception! It was actually not the weight of the cannons, but rather the weight of the decks. They made them extra thick because they feared having so many cannons would break the deck floor. Calculations have been made of this and if they didn’t make all the decks extra thick the ship would be fine and would not sit too low in the water. Side wind would also not be a problem if they built Vasa’s decks with a normal deck thickness. So the reason it sank was not the ship being too tall, or having too many cannons. It was because the decks were too thick, making the ship sit way too low in the water and making it unstable (top heavy). I know this because I work with the museum and the wonderful team of people that preserves/maintains the ship. I hope you don’t take my reply in a bad way, I just wanted to shed some light on this misconception! Have a wonderful day :)

Afghanistan is too.

If the Americans didnt feed them with weapons to combat the russians the russians would problably still be there.

Unless you’re the Mongols or Kipchak Turks

Stefan no, although the American supplies and weapons did help, you have to keep in mind that at its peak, the Russians were able to even out produce the Americans. In tanks alone, the Russians had produced twice as many t-34 tanks than the American m4 Shermans.

Ryan Wu And that has nothing to do with the fact that russian tanks were shit and had no quality to them?

We were atleast

Extremely powerful considering Swedens tiny population at the time.

Thanks to finnish people. Sweden is big penis, and Finland is balls. But big penis is useless without balls. Now Sweden just swinging big penis and nothing happening, you know 💁 You see how everything ia going like shit i Sweden today. "Refugees" and USE (eu) raping Sweden.

You are right Sepi, why dont you come back to the motherland. And make Sweden great again. Ball and penis united.

tyskbulle Finland will not be used by Sweden anymore, 600 years were enought 😂 But Sweden could surely be part of Finland 🤔👌

I know it's a joke and all that, but I don't think it's a fair comparison. First of, Sweden had won many wars against Russia prior to the attack, and had been very succesfull. Second of all, Napoleon actually won over Russia at first, but failed the second time. Third of, it was hardly the winter who ultimetly stopped the germans, but the russian war insustry. Also, the germans crushed the russians in the first world war. Thirdly, the US has already won over russia in the cold war.

Mr. Tree Actually it wasn't winter for the Swedes (and finns) it was Autumn I think

What I wrote was a joke, but if I'd be realistic it was like this: sweden handled the winter but didnt have the manpower when Russia used their true force. Napoleon lost almost half his army and supplies before he reached Moscow, so the winter clearly defeated the french army. The Germans handled the winter quite good I think, but they couldnt beat the russian mass-production of trash tanks. But it was still hard to win for the nazis due to the winter

Suomalainen solitas sweden fought russia in all kinds of seasons

Actually it was autumn who stopped the Germans. The rainy season that happened during the fall of 1941 had bogged down much of the german army, slowing their advance to Moscow. It wasn’t until winter actually, when the german offensive started to move again, but by that time it was already too late with stalin already starting to reform his command and with Moscow completely fortified. Although, the thing is that it wasn’t the weather that actually beat the Germans but rather the Russian industry.

Yet, no one learned from the once befor

The Mongols say hello. Temujin G. Khan managed to invade Russia in winter and WON. Real shame he didn't finish the job, though. If he had, America wouldn't have a Russian puppet in the White House right now because Russia wouldn't exist. We'd probably have Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, or Gary Johnson instead.

Sweden had done it before and been successful.

A few adventurous nobles from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth did it. They actually thought it was fun. And it was cool too.

@@DarDarBinks1986 You'd still have Trump anyway. He's not a Russian puppet, he's a corporate puppet like all your presidents for the last several decades. Even if it wouldn't be him, it would be Clinton, who is also a corporate puppet. Sanders and Johnson never had a chance.

If I remember right Finland wanted to join Sweden again but was not allowed because the EU or NATO or something didn't want a "northern superpower".

Finland gained it's independence back in 1917 so no, it wasn't because of EU or NATO as those things didn't even exist back then...

Shoutout to my hanseatic bois

Anders Nilsson You are talking about Åland, Swedish speaking island between the countries.

@nikedo aah, IT was Åland yeah. Wrong of me.

Macke boy Problem was we lacked the manpower. He depended on reinforcements from the rebelling Cossacks, but aiding them cost a lot more than he gained. Logistics, of course, is the bane of every failed invasion of Russia.

maturity is to know when to apply restraint

Sweden had a chance to win, and that was when Russia wanted to stop the war, but Sweden went to attack mosscow, the war could have ended quickly, with sweden having it's powers left, it was the only problem which caused sweden to loose

As I understand it Charles XII did not start a single war. Every war he fought was inherited. So I guess hes ambitions was to end the wars in the most favorable way possible. As I see it the least you should expect from a leader.

@Alexander Brunnrgaard Charles XI is seen favorably in Estonia too, since he battled the local German nobility at the time to revoke serfdom and the special status they had. Funny enough, one of those nobles he pissed off brokered the alliance between Denmark, Saxony and Russia.

Aggbala Time to march into Norway and Finland again. Make Sweden great again. Oh wait...

Anthony Gadway It all depends on circumstances, Israel was very organised and motivated unlike it's neighbors.

Napoleon disagrees.

the issu is that Carl, rather than force a peace after crushing denmark poland an russia, went on to take moscow. if they had accepted the peace they would have still been the largest and potentially most powerfull nation in europe. also the southern european nations wanted Carl to come down and mediate their disputes if only he sued for peace first so the potential to massivly affect european politics for dacades forward was lost becouse he was to hotheaded. id wager that if he hadn't continued to push his luck we would have a united Scandinavian Nation now that probably would be one of the worlds top 10 economies.

Had he not went after Poland-Lithuania (who din't even want to fight him) and just focused on Russia, then Sweden would very likely still be a minor power today.

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Yall are twats Barack obama was the founder of ikea

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Thank you :)

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watch extra credits videoseries of the great northen war

Sweden is also a Northern country.

KiryuZer0 Unless your the Mongols.

You do realise sweeden is in the Arctic circle right? There winter just as bad.

Joe Know Actually, the siberian winter is worse. Scandinavian countries has the Gulf stream to warm it up.

Johan Öhgren The Swedish invasion did not take place in Siberia. Moscow is in European Russia.

He didn't break his leg, he had been shot in the foot. Quite nastily so, from what I've heard (musket ball going in through the heel and ending up around the toes)...

Hannah Hägg He was shot in the foot

I doubt he would have won that battle even if he was commanding it personally. He had lost half of the army before that battle even started by having it march through Ukraine in the coldest winter in 500 years.

Truth be told, that wasn’t the entire reason. It was simply a case of massive over-extension - the army was far too small to continue on pushing and perhaps if Charles just sat back and waited out the winter and restocked on supplies and tried to get a larger army, the Swedish Empire would have not ended so quickly.

Nimroc Oh they probably would have won the battle had charles been in command that day, as the swedish army came very close to winning the battle. What really lost the battle was the swedish commander, Rehnskiöld, being too rigid and careful, ordering the infantry to pull back when they were just outside the russian camps ready to storm them. The tsar himself even said that at that moment he had lost hope in victory and had already ordered several regiments to retreat. But when the swedish infantry retreated and the army literally did nothing for 2 hours(!) it gave the russian time to regroup and launch a counteroffensive which annihilated the swedish troops. Charles had always been a very keen tactician and he often improvised based on the current situation at hand. Had he been in command then there's little doubt in my mind that the swedes would have achieved victory on that day.

DankZkittles thanks you there were some inaccuracies in our Portuguese video in all honesty, but we are remaking that video :) there will be a trailer soon showing all the empires we are covering

Ehm, the French had an army stationed in northern Germany waiting to be shipped over to invade south Sweden. That is why Sweden had to divide its army in two. The commander of that army was none other than a certain Bernadotte.

Carpet Climber the Swedes list Finland from 1714-1721 resulting in the so called "isoviha" which in turn fucked Finland so bad that it took decades for Finland to recover population and economy vise. And Swedes weren't ready for the war of 1808-1809, supplies weren't sent to Finland to not provocate Russia and supplies and reinforcements couldn't be sent to Finland because Bothnia (Bottenhavet) was frozen and even sending a message to Sweden took weeks because you had to go through the Torne valley. And Sweden was at war with those bloody Danes and French (and spanish). Oh and Sweden/Finland was massively outnumbered, but hey, at least we got "Fänrik Ståls sägner" out of the ordeal

I have to look up the information about French troops. Still, England and the Dutch sealed the ocean, but sure, they weren't trustworthy. And Finland suffering from exploitation? Welcome to the renaissance, that was the norm, even though Swedish kings exploited Finland slightly more. You think Finns would've liked it more having a Russian king? Their people were owned by their aristocracy. Swedish and Finnish peasants had it fairly well, when the norm was total shit. But yes, this era was madness. Tons of Swedish and Finnish peope died in tons of wars, for hundreds of years.

sweden lost finland also by the traitor cronstedt

1809 lmao, you know that finland is just over 100 years old right

F! 2018

Make Sweden Backwards Again!

NÄ LAGOM HET DE JU!

Make Sweden an Authoritarian Monarchy Again!

suck det ända SD kommer lyckas med är att göra Sverige svagare, i en allt mer globaliserad värld är inte solitäritet och motstånd mot internationella samarbeten bra för vare sig ekonomin eller välfärden. Sverige som det lilla land det är är helt enkelt beroende av internationella samarbeten. något SD helst ser att vi lämnar, SD2018 skulle helt enkelt bli en Politisk, Ekonomisk och Social Katastrof. (och detta helt utan att ta upp deras auktoritära tendenser eller den uppenbara rasism som genomsyrar partiet från ledningen till gräsrötterna, något som borde diskvalificera dem som alternativ oavsett)

When you hear about Queen Kristina... i hate her

Nixxel Thank you 😊 I will try and upload more often

Mr. Eshuut Thank you more coming soon

Thank you means a lot!

That is a bad idea. What would be a good idea is that Norway and Denmark should submit to their rightful overlords, the swedes : D

Max Andersson Papa Bless you Max. But a Union would suffice... For now ;)

Max Andersson what about finland?

Max Andersson Denmark Will crush You

DUUUUDE... Its... "The North", how could you miss that? Btw, it should include also Iceland, Greenland (if they wish), Åland, Finland and possibly Estonia.

Or The Lion from the North

@Абдульзефир yeah really

Sweden is a pussy nation today. I can say this cuz I am swedish living in Sweden.

no we're not really a pussy nation, yes we didnät fight in any of the world wars. But that later helped us become the powerful economy we are today. think of it this way: we didn't fight in the war but we helped our neighbours with fighting men and supplies (especially finland) and after the war when every european power needed to rebuild sweden was the nation with a lot of natural resources such as iron that we then sold off to for example france and germany. so thanks to sweden being neutral we've built a nation of wealth and freedom. so will you please stop with that childish way of saying it.

What are you even talking about, the whole world know we are a humanitarian superpower. You need to get a education.

biggbals so what do you suggest we do? Invade russia again? Reinstate absolute monarchy? The only reason you think sweden is such a ”pussy country” today is because you have nothing else to complain about, unlike swedes in the 17th century who had to worry about starving do death and dying of a cold

Doesn't make a lot of sense it's like saying Roman Empire is more powerful than modern day Italy

Hello from the USA🇺🇸

Hello from my basement :)

Great video

Hey from Sweden, sorry bout taking ur land but what thehell we are the greastest countries on earth atm so skål!

DatFakePoseidon norway is gay

Was that not the test with where they had a replica of the cannons Vasa had to see if they could be used to sink a enemy ship?

Because when you attack Sweden with a teen on the throne, they use cheat codes to become an amazing commander.

Thank you if i ever become primeminester i will do so

lol true

allahu akbar !

Božo Levanat 2101 the great Swedistan empire

I’d say great nation era.

BEEG POWER TIM YISSS

True!!! (Sant!!)

Well done!

Fänder, bröder. Vår stormaktstid är över. Vårt rike blöder. Fanan står i brand.

Zivan _ ethos this meme is getting old. The Russia invasion went trough Poland Ukraine and Belarus, Not very "Russian", and btw, Sweeden and Finland are in the Arctic circle, I think they could handle some Ukrainian snow.

@@joeknow3712 ok but they lost half of their army during the winter

Fortunate? Throughout the entire great power period Sweden was extremely unlucky...

How so?

A few samples: -Sweden capturing Moscow but slow travel made it so the Poles could make their candidate Tzar. -"Allies" abandoning the battlefield -Vasa sinking -Kings horse too fast, king dies. -Queen turns catholic. -King dies young. -Ship explodes spontaneously -Enemy capitol under siege, gets help from other forces -King dies young. -Royal caste (with archive) burnt down -Random encounters stopping needed support -Coldest winter in the century -Shot in the foot days before decisive battle -Allies capture enemy king, but release him

Do pray tell, Merecir.

Arius Krieg Dunno if you can see his reply but he did.

Mr3freddy don't try it

You are not first to claim us Finns back. One russian reporter close to Putin said than Helsinki is part of Russian empire 😆😨.

Finland and Norway were Sweden's bitches. Swedes need to take them seriously.

Sweden mars in to Finland... Gun shot.. Sweden run back to mama

When they came to Norway they failed to succsessfully siege the fort in Oslo, Halden and Trondheim. They tried to siege the fortress in halden 4 times but all of them failed. It was even personally lead by King Carl XII. Guess what, he died there. And when the swedish troops went back over the mountains from Trondheim. 4k swedish soldiers froze to death. Thank god for the peace treaty that stopped the war and made Norway an equal country with sweden. otherwise we would see a long lasting and bloody conflict.

One of the best countries in the world to live in!

Eh, not really. It's quite bad actually.

Marcionite Reactionary Look at the HDI of Sweden. The schools are good compared to most of the world. Its a stable society, low corruption, the road system is the best in the world. Low crime rate. Almost 5 times less murders in sweden than in USA. Good economy, much exports and the people are very tolerant.

Bah, HDI is bogus, it doesn't have an impact on the actual happiness of people. But, sure, the crime rate is low. Also, being tolerant isn't a good thing. There are certain things that shouldn't be tolerated.

Why you say tolerance is bad? Why is it good for people to be intolerant? Would you be happy if everyone was intolerant against you?

He was not a tyrant. He liberated the country, put the nobility and people in check. He also laid the fundations for the empire.

___________ ___________ it is a fact that Gustav Vasa was competent and did some good things. But it is also a fact that it was very dangerous to be close to him, and that he surpressed people who didnt agree in a very harsh manner. The fact that a person does something good does not mean that he is allways good. A good deed does not nullify a bad deed.

At the same time he lived in a time where he could not afford the slightest corruption or treason, for had he allowed it not only would it destroy the nation from within but it would be surely not be overlooked by Denmark. He was a tyrant because he had to be a tyrant. This also ended up serving the people well, but the nobility was never safe.

Its because we swedes are not allowed to be proud of anything anymore. Part of the aenda to destroy us.

Or maybe it is becuse he was actually a tyrant becuse history is often glorified and in reality most people have done bad things You fucking moron since modern politics has horseshit to do with history

Yes he was a boy king who had taste of victory tring to eat of the land. Point is when ppl marsch into russia they usually die from starvation or cold, reinforcment that never come.

Don’t fight the Russians unless its over economic ideology.

Why not? Sweden had done it before and been successful.

The Swedish could've marched through Finland and taken Moscow.

Everyone who talks about their nation being destroyed when it invaded Russia: "B-B-But the winter...."

No u

Half of the army was lost to the winter. I think it's safe to say that we lost to nature.

+Mr. Al RURIKIDS FOREVER

I'm sorry but what about WW2? Are going to say the weather defeated Germany?

@@andro7862 winter of 41-42 and the soviet manpower saved them.

@@Ashtonlegoguy Generals like Rokossovsky and Vatutin, stronger industrial output, good tanks. I'm saying winter wasn't the deciding factory. P.S. Germany outnumbered the Red Army in 1941.

They where awesome!

yees yees In Germany they used to say to their children: If you don't act normally hakkapelitas will come to get you

yees yees I guess so

Lol no

TOPGUN787 Gaming No you are not.

Fucking Norway, stop being such a moron.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Good joke XDDD

no, just no.

Euw

"Gustavo"

He was a genius because he reformed his army into the greatest in Europe and secured swedish power for a century