How were they so powerful?

how were they so powerful?

Literally who?

German efficiency meme comes from them.

A fine goostep and German work ethic.

>gay kings who had a fetish for soldiers
>being lucky enough to receive Rhineland and Westphalia, the future industrial heartland of Western Europe.

While most states posses an army, the Prussian army posseses a state.

By being Sparta in the morning and Athens in the afternoon

you've brought shame to your family.

I've already committed suppository

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>"Prussia was not a country with an army, but an army with a country"

Someone once remarked.

Strong Virtues
Strong Army
Ambitious Dreams
Non-stop expedtion

>Prussia
>powerful
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If your preussen could be as gross as you want
No limits, as gross as you can imagine
How gross would your grosspreussen be?

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Well in all honesty you could pull that shit with any country in the world

>Mongols in Moscow
>Napoleon in Moscow
>Brits in Washington
>Germans in Paris vol1&2
>Russians in Paris
>Vikings in London
>Normans in London
>Goths in Rome
>Americans in Rome

They were not.

Vikings in Paris too.

Because they were the only german state not bound by the HRE. Along with Austria ofc, but they dominated the HRE anyway.

Not being cucks in chains helps a lot in the business of getting grosser und grosser.

That's my point, Prussia wasn't "so" powerful, just a regular second-tier major power.

when people talk great about Prussia, it is not always about their military, but the militarist culture that was highly efficient and lived on a the spirit of Germany.

There is a lot of debate on whether it still exists today or died after the second world war, but that is the jewel of German history.

So Russia, France and the UK are also just regular second-tier major powers?

They had a lot of blood and iron laying around

Russia - yes, France and UK were the top tier major powers.
>the militarist culture that was highly efficient
But their war record is mixed and the results are quite limited. Considering Seven Years War was a close tie, most of Prussian military successes were against Austrians, Polish and likes, Franco-Prussian war being the only exception. And don't forget afterwards they started and lost two world wars despite their "militarist culture".
In other words, "Prussian militarism" is a meme.

A few villages somewhere in the asscrack of western Poland.

Britain's proxy state in the heart of Europe which has only risen to prominence because the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was severely weakened by a century of ongoing destabilization.

>Russia - yes, France and UK were the top tier major powers
Except Russia was a mayor power until the Russo-Japanese war.

Good military, good to great leadership from most of the heads of state and having competent, shrewd higher level government officials.

This.

Similarly, Napoleon III also remarked "Prussia was born out of a cannonball."


90% of the budget was spent on military. Of course, they also managed to win a war versus pretty much all of Europe. For the early stages of the Seven Years War, they managed to defend themselves against 6 other countries, until Great Britain joined the war.


To say they were just a military state is underwhelming. Their entire existence was based around the military.

This boy gets it.

Because they got breech loaded rifles before the Austrians

So much army/military culture we take for granted today was invented by the Prussians.