Triple Alliance against Russia

So I wanted to know what you guys think of a triple alliance in the 1670's of Sweden, Denmark, and Poland agianst rising superpower Russia. They do this after the Russian czars start encroaching on the Swedish and Polish lands. Denmark, fearing being conquered by the Russians after it is done with the Polish and Swedish and left with no allies against Russia, joins the alliance.
 
Not going to happen. Denmark will want to see a weaker Sweden, Poland won't really mind it either.

And of course, Russia (assuming OTL progress) isn't "a rising superpower".

So Sweden is not mistress of the Baltic. Russia is now actually worth taking seriously instead of completely ignoring. Big furry deal.
 
Actually John Sobieski considered alliance with France and Sweden and partitioning of brandenburgian lands together. However, war with Turkey dragging on and french-brandenburgian alliance upset those plans.
 
Rising superpower who now?

Like Elfwine says, this was a time when Denmark and Sweden warred incessantly and so an alliance between Russia and Denmark was an obvious step as soon as Russian diplomacy became sufficiently far-sighted, just as happened IOTL.

In the 1670s Russians power relative to Poland was growing, but the last attempt at 'gathering in the Lands of Rus' had failed and Moscow was busy competing with not only Poland but, perhaps the greater threat, the Ottoman-Crimean alliance for overlordship of Ukraine.
 
Actually John Sobieski considered alliance with France and Sweden and partitioning of brandenburgian lands together. However, war with Turkey dragging on and french-brandenburgian alliance upset those plans.

Interesting, but not a sign Poland had any particular objection to Sweden being knocked around, either.

To put it simply, Sweden's fate doesn't matter very much to Poland.
 
As far as the Polish nobility were concerned, Sweden was resented for the whole "invading, occupying, and trying to partition the country at tremendous loss of life" thing but it wasn't like they all wanted to go to war. And when the Saxons got in a while later they saw war with Sweden and territorial gain as a way to consolidate their hold on the country and perhaps abolish election to the throne.

Overall, it's fair to say that Poland has more reason to oppose Sweden than to oppose Russia.
 
Denmark and Sweden are arch-enemies at this time, and Denmark would love to ally with Russia to regain Skåne, Bohuslän, Gotland, Jämtland, Härjedalen, Ösel and Blekinge, lost 1658. They did attack Sweden in the Scanian War of 1675-79, so I do not see them allying with Sweden at this time.

In fact, Sweden and Denmark was at war constantly.

1521-23.
1563-70.
1611-13.
1643-45.
1657-58
1658-60.
1675-79.
1700.
1709-20.
1788-89.
1808-09.
1813-14.

From the time Gustav Wasa once and for all ended the Kalmar Union 1523 and the end of the Napoleonic Wars 1814, Sweden and Denmark were constantly at each others' throats. An alliance during this timeframe is very unlikely.

Sweden did try during the Great Nordic War to make Poland-Lithuania an ally against Russia (which was rising to great power status under Peter the Great), but failed, as August of Saxony rose back to the throne as soon as the Swedish troops left. A Swedo-Polish alliance MIGHT be possible, if the Poles decide that the Russians are a more urgent matter than the Swedish throne (which was pretty much dropped after the death of an II Kazimierz Waza 1668) and the matter or Livonia.
 
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