Yeah, sometimes the line between "military genius" and "lunatic" is a rather fine one...Btw do we have something similar concering Charles XII goals in 1700 northern war?
(aside of Lesczynski as king of Poland, Holstein-Gottorp and Mazepas Ukraine, what were Sweden aims? Anything else, beside (possibly) these and, most importantly, survival?)
Not that I know of territorially, but I think Sweden wanted to keep itself as a key European power.
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Nice, I wonder how the Interwar period would have changed if Lit-Bel consolidated. Would it have made it easier for the Soviets to defeat Poland in 1920? Would it have made it harder for Germany to invade the USSR during WWII? Who knows.Don't know if anyone's ever posted this before, but here's an old LiveJournal link to a series of maps posted by a user named Francis Maks, which shows (among others) the proposed and/or "ephemeral" borders of the Lithuanian SSR, Lit-Bel, the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia, etc, in the immediate post-WWI years. Maps are highly detailed, some of the best I've seen - so long as your Cyrillic comprehension is pretty good
Been meaning to track down the source of these (there are several used in various Wiki entries) for a while, but just now got around to it...1919.I.1 Провозглашение Советской Социалистической Республики Белоруссии
Западная Коммуна с интернациональным руководством вполне устаивала ЦК РКП(б) пока речь шла только о немецкой оккупации. Рано или поздно занятые территории были бы возвращены. Белорусские националисты в расчёт не брались. "Буржуазные" (БНР) сколь-нибудь заметной силой не стали. От "своих" (в лице…
Good questions... the hard part would be holding it together though. The memories of Lithuanians and White Ruthenes being united, more or less peacefully, in the Commonwealth and in the Grand Duchy, were getting more and more remote... and apart from a fading historical connection and a devotion to the Red Cause (held by a rather small portion of the population), there really wasn't much to hold Lithuanians and Belarusians together in a Lit-bel...
Yeah, and I'm surprised there aren't irredentists in the exiled democratic Belarusian government that would claim the lands of the old BNR today.
Tbh the Allies should have made the whole Istria as a neutral state to separate Italy from Yugoslavia
I'm intrigued by that "Jennings Proposal" line... Looks pretty specific in an area that doesn't lend itself very well to specificitiesProposals for a border between British Egypt and the Ottoman Empire prior to the 1902 arbitration, which set the border we know today between the Levant proper and the Sinai.
Bolivia needs a sea-coast back... might as well put it somewhere
Pola should have remained Italian, historically, ethnically, and for prettier borders.
The British negotiating guidelines for the treaty at the end of the First Opium War were "the islands of _________", literally an "insert new colony here".
something something warm water port and Alsace-LorraineBolivia needs a sea-coast back... might as well put it somewhere
