The thing is that unless you strengthen the Monarch, you're not going anywhere.
Maybe a way to go about it is to avoid the elective monarchy?
The thing is that unless you strengthen the Monarch, you're not going anywhere.
Maybe a way to go about it is to avoid the elective monarchy?
Perhaps butterfly away the wasa gaining the crowns of both sweden and Poland. Ergo with two different dynastys the swedes or poles have less reason to intervene in each others affairs and instead form an allaince to counter russia. At the same time the cossaks are better treated so they dont revolt. Finally have a stronger Hungary and perhaps butterfly away Mohacs thereby creating a situation where Poland can expect ai form some major powers to halt the Ottoman advance. I think the key is keeping Poland from being mired by rebbelions or getting wrecked by pointless dynastic conflicts.
In my statement above I suggested, if Jan Sobieski could have altered the elective monarchy into a dynastic monarchy maybe before Kahlenberg/Vienna. There was a threat of the Ottoman Hungarian vassal to invade Poland during his absence. Maybe after Sobieski is seen as "Savior of Christian Occident"he may have a position strong enough to make his heir crownprince. So the Sobieski line continues and August never becomes King of Poland after Sobieski´s death...
Right forgot vasas came after sobieski but could we have a pod where mohacs ends in ottoman defeat a weaker ottomans surely helps poland no?
Right forgot vasas came after sobieski but could we have a pod where mohacs ends in ottoman defeat a weaker ottomans surely helps poland no?