Hello and with this first post thanks for a amusing forum! If this question has been posted before I apologise. So to the what if!
Starting with Gustavus Adolphus and continued to the last years of Charles XII one major vision for sweden was to seize control over the entire baltic sea. This would mean not just gaining control over the oresund straits but complete control of all provinces and harbors sorrounding the baltic sea.
The question is what this would mean for sweden in terms of prestige, power projection and economy?
To answer the question I understand it´s important to know when this was done and at it´s best I can see it happend around 1700. The way to this scenario would be the destruction of denmark after a succesful storming of copenhagen in 1658 followed by a series of wars to gain territories in northern germany. A surviving Gustavus Adolphus would also help gaining more german territory then in OTL. The great northern war would in my opinion still appear sometime around 1700 where Sweden would be victorious securing the last provinces sorrounding the baltifc sea.
Now what would this mean to Sweden as of the question earlier asked? And could such a Sweden manage to survive or would it just be a time before the neighbours teamed up for a baltic gangbang on sweden?
Any thoughts?
Starting with Gustavus Adolphus and continued to the last years of Charles XII one major vision for sweden was to seize control over the entire baltic sea. This would mean not just gaining control over the oresund straits but complete control of all provinces and harbors sorrounding the baltic sea.
The question is what this would mean for sweden in terms of prestige, power projection and economy?
To answer the question I understand it´s important to know when this was done and at it´s best I can see it happend around 1700. The way to this scenario would be the destruction of denmark after a succesful storming of copenhagen in 1658 followed by a series of wars to gain territories in northern germany. A surviving Gustavus Adolphus would also help gaining more german territory then in OTL. The great northern war would in my opinion still appear sometime around 1700 where Sweden would be victorious securing the last provinces sorrounding the baltifc sea.
Now what would this mean to Sweden as of the question earlier asked? And could such a Sweden manage to survive or would it just be a time before the neighbours teamed up for a baltic gangbang on sweden?
Any thoughts?