Russia... They’ve been oh so close to being great... Except they aren’t... And they never will be... They are a pathetic excuse for greatness... Peter the ‘Great’... Catherine the ‘Great’... Etc., etc.... They have always been a subpar nation incapable of achieving anything ‘Great’... Because they are a backward and incompetent backwater country.
England conquered the world, the French conquered nothing... the Spanish conquered nothing... The Russian’s conquered less than nothing.
Beating a depleted and already beaten Germany was their one great achievement... And afterwards... They melted back to the obscurity that they have exemplified for centuries.
“England conquered the world, the French conquered nothing... the Spanish conquered nothing... “
Well, the French at least did well under Napoleon, even though he was technically more of an Italian. And the Spanish were the most powerful, and richest, country on the planet for a few centuries before the English managed to surpass their navy. The only ones who could compare to Spain at that point were the Turks, but Spain had them boxed up in the Mediterranean while the rest of the world was Spain’s playpen.