Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Why did it always get shit on? Why was everyone constantly invading it? From what I can see it was capable of winning wars on its own but it was usually attacked in groups and had lots of rebellions and shit.
Were Polacks just really bad at diplomacy?

prussia wanted to unite their lands, they could expect no friendliness from them. russia wanted ukrainian farmlands because most of their country is frozen wasteland, they had no friend in the russians. the holy roman emperors were always embroiled in divisive shittery and their focus was never really on eastern europe. sweden wants to control the baltic and is geographically easier to defend so they didn't need polish alliances. the ottomans were not christian, there was no way they'd get along.

poland just never had any nearby friends to protect it by virtue of bad circumstances.

>Why did it always get shit on? Why was everyone constantly invading it?

Jesus fuckin christ, the state of this board

Is it from some American history cartoon? It was 17th century everyone was fighting each other and it wasn't just the Commonwealth that was "invaded" all the time. They were actually winning most of their wars unlike Turks.

>Tfw there never was a polish-swedish alliance
They were the perfect alliance to protect against russia and the german states.

Ambition fucked them up

>Professor Andrzej Rottermund, manager of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, claims that the Swedish army robbed Poland of her most precious goods - thousands of works of art, books and valuables
>Most of these items have never been returned to Poland and are kept both in private Swedish hands, and in Stockholm museums
>Huber Kowalski of the University of Warsaw Institute of Archeology says that Swedes stole anything they could lay their hands on windows, stairs
chimneys, sculptures, floors, doors and gates.
>Swedish troops stole such items as:
>both Polish and Lithuanian state records /the royal library from Warsaw,
>libraries from Ujazdów Castle, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Malbork, Poznań, Grudziądz, Gniezno, Lublin, Jarosław, Vilnius, Sandomierz, Radom, and Kraków, also archives and libraries from most towns
>all Warsaw palaces – completely robbed were the Kazanowski Palace, the Ossoliński Palace, the Daniłłowicz Palace, the Primate Palace, the Bishophoric Palace, the Royal Palace and the Royal Castle,
>castles and churches, which were robbed and destroyed, as were almost all Polish towns; the most notable examples are Golub-Dobrzyń, Krzyżtopór, Wieluń, Krasnystaw, Wawel, Tęczyn, Lanckorona, Pieskowa Skała, Kielce, Sandomierz, Chęciny Niepołomice, Ojców, Wiśnicz, Łobzów, Kruszwica, Rabsztyn.
>According to the estimates of Polish scholars I. Ihnatowicz, Z. Landau, A. Mączak and B. Zientara, the invasion by the Swedish army and its allies (Brandenburg-Prussia and Transilvania), resulted in the loss of 25% of the population in four core Polish provinces. Lesser Poland lost 23% of population, Mazovia 40% in villages and 70% in towns, Greater Poland 50% in villages and 60% in towns.

> In 2002, the Warsaw Royal Castle organized an exhibition, "Eagle and Three Crowns", which presented many items stolen from Poland, and kept in Swedish museums. After the Deluge, the Commonwealth became a "cultural desert".

> In January 2013 Marek Poznański, a Palikot Movement member of the Polish parliament, announced his plan to send thousands of postcards to European politicians and journalists, in which he wanted to convince the recipients that Poland should get financial compensation from Sweden for the destruction of the country in the deluge.

OH NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO HUAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>the number of soldier fighting in a war in a war in the 17th century would be the amount of soldiers fighting in a battle in the 19th century and a sub battle 100 years later