This is lowkey still Russia’s main warfare tactic today
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Funny part is, the danger factor appeared reversed to many observers within and without Sweden at that point. Denmark(-Norway) was definitely a declining power, but they had bought serious force to bear against Sweden before, even just 25 years earlier during the Scanian War. Poland-Lithuania had fielded the Winged Hussars at Vienna, although they were certainly starting to decline and had been since the Deluge. Russia was the outlier that had prior then been on Europe’s periphery and generally losing conflicts against Sweden and Poland-Lithuania is the preceding century. Their establishment was quite insular, with Tsars marrying women from aristocratic boyar families rather that foreign royalty as was common to the west. It’s for these reasons that Carl XII prioritized Denmark right off the bat, then moved against Poland-Lithuania after Narva and campaigned there for years before invading Russia. However, but 1721, it was very clear that Russia was actually the biggest and most dominant member of the alliance by far, as this meme reflects
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This is lowkey still Russia’s main warfare tactic today
Funny part is, the danger factor appeared reversed to many observers within and without Sweden at that point. Denmark(-Norway) was definitely a declining power, but they had bought serious force to bear against Sweden before, even just 25 years earlier during the Scanian War. Poland-Lithuania had fielded the Winged Hussars at Vienna, although they were certainly starting to decline and had been since the Deluge. Russia was the outlier that had prior then been on Europe’s periphery and generally losing conflicts against Sweden and Poland-Lithuania is the preceding century. Their establishment was quite insular, with Tsars marrying women from aristocratic boyar families rather that foreign royalty as was common to the west. It’s for these reasons that Carl XII prioritized Denmark right off the bat, then moved against Poland-Lithuania after Narva and campaigned there for years before invading Russia. However, but 1721, it was very clear that Russia was actually the biggest and most dominant member of the alliance by far, as this meme reflects