Militarily, Baltic is a two nation sea : Sweden and Germany

Today's Russia , China or America could never be dominant players in a serious Baltic Sea war - the same goes for Britain, France, Italy and Japan,  even in their naval heyday.

Geographic hard power here trumps military hardware Faux Power.

Sweden's long twin coasts and many mid-Baltic islands dominate the central Baltic - Germany's two coasts much less so, but its similarly central Baltic location and bigger population make up for that.

Nationalism over resolving greenhouse gas fallout is the gravest threat this globe faces

Is World War II , the war created by excessive national selfishness , really over ?

I ask if so, why then do nations still delude themselves that they have to the sole sovereign right to burn hydrocarbons within their own borders as they see fit ?

Didn't we learn quickly after WWII that nationally created atomic testing fallout and germ warfare experimenting fallout simply refused to stay put ?

Can we expect nationally-produced greenhouse gas fallout to be anymore cooperative ?

Blitzkrieg meets geographic hard power : its total failure to conquer BIG NATIONS

Today's EU, geographically, is about as big as were the eight 'big' nations of WWII.

Hold that thought for a moment or two.

If we consider the 1940 version of the Indian empire and not today's India, they definitely included Russia , Canada, China, America, Australia, Brazil and perhaps India and perhaps British southern Africa  -South Africa and Rhodesia and Kenya etc.

Japan and Germany , France and Italy were not among them. - no Europeans in the lot.