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Sweden or Canada do not possess the qualities that have allowed power to accumulate for a nation/empire.

• jdblair 8y ago
  Sweden was once a superpower. Or, at least a "great" power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Empire
  • paganel 8y ago
    And they behaved as badly as today's super-powers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_(history)#Swedish_invasion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_(history)#Swedish_invas... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prague_(1648) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prague_(1648) > The main result, and probably the main aim, was to loot the fabulous art collection assembled in Prague Castle by Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552–1612), the pick of which was taken down the Elbe in barges and shipped to Sweden
• ionised 8y ago
  You mean militaristic expansionism?
  • acct1771 8y ago
    Precisely.
• cambaceres 8y ago
  That was not really the point.