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What are some of the biggest underdog nations? Either nations which did a lot without being part of the bigger picture, accomplished a great deal in context of what they had/stood up to forces far more powerful than them.
Particularly looking for smaller nations which then transformed into bigger nations for whatever reason, and the basic history behind this.
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>>3085147
SCOTLAND
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>>3085147
Thailand
A successful model of a degenerate nation
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>>3085158
Unironically this, the creation of Great Britain under the acts of union led to the closure of a french route into a land invasion bia scotland, which led to total British dominance on the Isles, which led into the creation of the British Empire, that being said, fuck off jacobite scum.
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Finland
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Ireland desu
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Vietnam, Muscovy, 13 colonies
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Ukraine?
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Kingdom of Israel aka Judea aka the Jews aka State of Israel
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Macedon definitely
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>>3085147
England.
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Rome
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>>3085175
>jacobite scum
Stay forever mad
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The United States of America
>Beats the greatest empire on earth with peasants and muskets (right to bare arms)
>Tells the frenchies to fuck off
>Tells the spanish to fuck off
oh and fuck indians too
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Unironically Cuba
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>>3085175
>he thinks all scots are highland popecucks
FOR CHRIST AND COVENANT 1688
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>>3085224
Lowlanders are just crypto-anglos
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>>3085165
>implying
Thais are the Asian equivalent of germanoniggers during the fall of rome. True SEA underdog is Cambodia and Vietnam
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>>3085231
and highlanders are LITERALLY gaels
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Netherlands. Literal who nation between giants like french, germans and british turn into global trade empire.
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India.
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>>3085218
>right to bare arms
Americans in charge of education
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>>3085237
>Cambodia
Didn't Vietnam fuck them up under 2 week during the Polpot era?
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finlan
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>>3085289
Netherlands was one of the two most developed places in Europe of the time. Like SF Bay area now.
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Wales
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>>3085237
>>3085196
>Vietnam
>Underdog.
They were literally Small China and a powerful local empire in SEA to the expense of the Cambodians and the Cham.
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