Who is really the greatest european nation?

[Overdriven]

I love that the country with the most votes is also the country that's constantly trying to pretend it's not in Europe.

Well we are part of Europe (can't deny geography). Just we don't want to be part of the EU. Big difference.

content to rape technologically underdevelopped tribes half a world away or intervene in continental wars once all the major participants had exhausted each other fighting actual threats.

Conveniently forgetting that the French, Dutch, Spanish and a number of others expended enormous amounts of resources trying to stop us at every turn doing this. Still managed it.

As for the continental wars, well that's an obvious one as we'd be stupid to get involved too heavily with the small army we could field. But huge sums of money went to allied continental nations to help them and can't ever forget the navy.

[Smoothrich]

What I think of when I think British intelligence services in WW2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Real inspiring story.

[Bjord]

Someone update the lazy so we can participate, what are you currently discussing here?

[Tovi]

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[Xant]

You should go live in Russia.

[Tovi]

Or maybe China 

[darmaster]

fishtitties!

[Kalam]

As an American, it seems like Germany. After all, we do love our young upstarts. Except when it's not western.

[RandomDude]

Hmm that's assuming I know equal amounts of history for all those nations.

There's some countries I know have had periods of "greatness".

If the question is about who owned the most land then it's going to be either Great Britain or Russia, right?

[Bittersteel]

Sweden

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have I said that before, i feel a deja vu

[njames89]

The Vatican hehaehhahuehaeh

[Mancom37]

Portugal,man we battled our way against to romans to get "backstabbed",then we got our kingdom by a family dispute/ideology,kicked those mouros out of Algarve,win against Castella when they wanted a second round,beat them again and make the longest living alliance with britain that is still up .

Then we got half of the world on our hands and lost it to a bundle of sticks king that didn t know what to do on the meantime.

[Tibe]

Trying to destroy Germany, that it will stay down for good.
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[Pawlov]

Poland !

* We repeled Islamic Invasion in 17th century


* Defeated Teutonic Order


* Great Poles like: Nicholaus Copernicus.


* Bigos

[Kidduis]

Who is this

Nicholaus Copernicus.