Whatever you want to say about the Russians, had it not been for Russia to fill the power vacuum after the collapse of the Golden Horde and conquer those lands, Eastern Europe would be inhabited by Turco-Mongol and Caucasian (i.e. of the Caucasus) races practicing Islam.
@84_wintermute@White_Chivalry@Nedao454 They just discovered a huge deposit of rare earths in Sweden last year. Southern Europe has horrible natural resources, Spain had some copper mines and the Iberian pyrite belt, but nothing compared to the Falu mine. Northern Europe has far more:
-oil
-gas
-minerals
-timber
@84_wintermute@White_Chivalry@Nedao454 No, this isn't true at all. Sweden has the best mineral deposits in Europe and some of the best in the world. Sweden produces 90% of Europe's iron ore. They had ONE copper mine (the Falu mine) that provided historically for the majority of Europe's copper. You are uneducated.
@84_wintermute@White_Chivalry@Nedao454 No, this isn't true at all. Sweden has the best mineral deposits in Europe and some of the best in the world. Sweden produces 90% of Europe's iron ore. They had ONE copper mine (the Falu mine) that provided historically for the majority of Europe's copper. You are uneducated.
@WinBackTheWest@ModernThe85141 Magic dirt theory is nonsense but natural resources and geography absolutely, massively matter to the trajectory of peoples, races, empires. Taking oil, without that Gaddafi's Libya would have been nothing, and it's responsible for the Gulf Arabs' entire standard of living today.
@WinBackTheWest@ModernThe85141 You're right, Italy had a strategic position while Germania was dense forest and Germanics were geographically disadvantaged. But thousands of years later, the Germanic countries have excellent mineral and coal deposits (Sweden for minerals, Germany for coal), we have nothing.
Fun fact: Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor of China, is still buried in his gargantuan tomb, undisturbed. The sarcophagus chamber alone is as large as 5 basketball fields, 10 stories deep underground. And the legend is real. Modern remote sensing technology has discovered that
@GarbageHuman24 women's standards are really getting crazy nowadays, incel blackpill spergs were onto something (not nearly to the degree they say though of course)
Although we often think of Kant as a universal figure, he famously never left his home region of East Prussia and was deeply enmeshed in its particular cultural concerns. Among these concerns was the position of the Lithuanian language (🧵) #Kant300
In Kant’s time the easternmost (and northernmost) districts of East Prussia, along the River Nemunas and eastern Baltic coast, were Lithuanian speaking. This was Lithuania Minor, the land of the Lietuvininkai, ‘Little Lithuanians’ or ‘Prussian Lithuanians’
@johndory1914 For example, Simon Dach, a poet who wrote in German from Memel/Klaipeda. His father worked as a Lithuanian language court interpreter. In old Prussian censuses, they list high %ages of Lithuanians there, and say that they become Germanized easily and abandon their old identity.
@johndory1914 Many those born in Memel were probably Germanized Lithuanians or partially. Not even we wuzzing here. Lithuanians in Prussia were bilingual and took German surnames and names officially (because Lithuanians outside of nobles didn't really have normal last names).