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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SCOTLAND
Thailand
A successful model of a degenerate nation
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.
Finland
Ireland desu
Vietnam, Muscovy, 13 colonies
Ukraine?
Kingdom of Israel aka Judea aka the Jews aka State of Israel
Macedon definitely
England.
Rome
>jacobite scum
Stay forever mad
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
Unironically Cuba
>he thinks all scots are highland popecucks
FOR CHRIST AND COVENANT 1688
Lowlanders are just crypto-anglos
>implying
Thais are the Asian equivalent of germanoniggers during the fall of rome. True SEA underdog is Cambodia and Vietnam
and highlanders are LITERALLY gaels
Netherlands. Literal who nation between giants like french, germans and british turn into global trade empire.
India.
>right to bare arms
Americans in charge of education
Poland, Serbia, Scotland, Netherlands, any country with a much larger aggressive neighbor, god forbid they're stuck between two of them.
youtube.com
Literally the luckiest country in the world
>Cambodia
Didn't Vietnam fuck them up under 2 week during the Polpot era?
finlan
Netherlands was one of the two most developed places in Europe of the time. Like SF Bay area now.
Wales
>Vietnam
>Underdog.
They were literally Small China and a powerful local empire in SEA to the expense of the Cambodians and the Cham.