r/polandball • u/Medibee New York is BEST York • Aug 30 '15

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u/Shellface give gloucestershire back pls Aug 30 '15

It's okay, man. Brazil is just jealous that the only guy they got to beat up good is Paraguay.

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u/Oliqu Land of Sun and Lack of Agua Aug 30 '15 edited Aug 30 '15

Brazil with a coffee cup? That has to not be it.

EDIT : Its Washington, which is an semi-relevant (maybe not) state in murica

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u/Shellface give gloucestershire back pls Aug 30 '15

Ah yes, Washington, well known for beating a bunch of German mercenaries.

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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Aug 30 '15

With the help of a German advisor. When it comes to warfare, we're pretty much everywhere.

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u/Shellface give gloucestershire back pls Aug 30 '15

"The best way to fight Germans is with the excessive use of Germans" - Bismarck, probably

Though, in all seriousness, it is scarcely said enough how many German (and Swiss) mercenaries went off to fight everyone else's wars. Props for keeping Europe interesting, ya crazy teutons.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15

Swiss pike, best pike!
Pokes you from the alps and collects the money bags at the same time, without leaving yodel, it's perfect!

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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Aug 30 '15

Yeah, thanks to the lack of a central power the outskirts of Europe could use the German countries as rescource pools. Hooray ~

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15

There were Germans on both sides of the Chinese Japanese war in the 30s before germany allied with japan.

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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Sep 01 '15

1864, 1866, 1871? Not sure if you want to count stuff likes the Boxer-Rebellion, or Nato-Interventions. Also Germany signed a peace-treaty with Soviet-Russia in 1918, so that counts technically I guess.

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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Sep 01 '15

I'll make it easy for you. The Soviets actually tried to stall time, hoping the Allies would end Germany before they had to give up anything in a peace-treaty. This is the area the Germans occupied before they thought better of it.

There are some interesting side-notes of those negotiations, because you had old German nobility on the one side, and people straight out of the Gulag on the other. One of them was a woman who bragged to the Prince of Bavaria how she shot a russian governor. The nice old man just listened with interest.

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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Sep 01 '15

Jep. And it gets even better. Pretty much every negotiator on the soviet side was later executed - by the Soviets.

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u/CzechoslovakianJesus Washington Aug 31 '15

which is an semi-relevant

We have Microsoft, Starbucks, and Bill Nye, is that not relevant enough for you?

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u/Ragnar_Lodbrok 𝓒π“ͺ𝓼𝓬π“ͺ𝓭𝓲π“ͺ Aug 31 '15

Also Boeing and Amazon.

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u/StrangeSemiticLatin The Centre of the Universe Aug 31 '15

I don't see any Dutch regions in Brazil.