Taking Sweden by side of Norway is Hannibal level (lose 50% of your war elephants), but also fight like in Afghanistan towards the mountains. And taking Sweden by sea is... also a great way to lose many ships. And well, the result is not a lot of taxable population and a whole lot of forest occupied. Denmark had Ships to grab, and they had a meh military, and it's flat, and enough agriculture to be worth conquering.
In American you can't walk because fat. In Europe you can't walk because no license. In North Korea you can walk because fearless leader Kim Il Sung blessed comrade with feet.
I'm proud to say that I once visited the BE/NL/DE three country point. There I hopped from Belgium over the Netherlands into Germany. Countries in Europe are so tiny that you can literally just jump over them.
Actually there is no crosswalk, you have to stand there for seven minutes working up the nerve to scurry across in a barely-long-enough gap in traffic, and hope no one throws anything at you from his car in the meantime.
Translation: USA: Drove for 4 hours — changed the state.
UK: Drove for 4 hours — changed the dialect.
Russia: Drove for 4 hours — you’re still in Moscow.
Proud of you for choosing Schengen, the place where it was agreed that borders would no longer divide us Europeans, and that we could do our stupid cross-border walks to own the Americans unimpeded by border checks 🫡🇪🇺
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That's why Germany was able to walk right over northern Europe. Twice.