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You only think you´re being sarcastic. A small note here on Swedish history.

Back in the day (1600´s or so), Sweden was one of the great military powers of Europe, occupied Norway and Finland, and had armies and mercenaries fighting down as far as Munich in Germany. They were actually one of the leaders of the Protestant Revolution.

Back in the day...

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Generally correct, but Finland was a part of Sweden since hundreds of years earlier than the 1600s (ignoring the question if you can use the concept "nation" about Sweden in e.g. the 1200s).

And Norway never really got into our greedy, grasping Swedish hands until much later... they had a bad time enough with being part of Denmark anyway. :-)

Edit: And I finally got that Vendan's point was about the recent US election. :-)

yeah, it was the sad kind of sarcasm where I'm sobbing inside :(

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