@DarrenPlymouth Admiring the flawlessly lush, smooth turf, the visitor asks the head gardener for the secret to achieving such a perfect English lawn. The gardener replies:
"It's quite simple, sir. You just mow it and roll it, and roll it and mow it... for about five hundred years."
@talkrealopinion Poland too had full control of Moscow at some point, 150 years later Poland was partitioned and any hope of it's regional power had died.