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As of today it has almost been 6 months since Sweden got occupied by Lithuania.. And I felt it was about time for me too write an article, especially since I was the CP of Sweden for the two out of the three first months of Sweden occupation. This article will not be very serious, the seriousness in this situation was gone about 3 months ago for me, when I quit as CP of Sweden and less then a month later when I quit as SC of Phoenix.
The current war between Sweden and Lithuania started when Sweden, trying to help their old ally Poland attacked different regions of Latvia that was under occupation by Lithuania. After some success, obtaining a few of Latvias regions, the war between Poland and Lithuania got to an end. At this point we knew that we had a tough time ahead of us. The by far best coordinated country ever in e-sim was right at out front door, and for about a week we stood strong (maybe overkilling a bit too much, but that's just what we do! Overkill1 -Overkill2 - First loss of Gotaland ).
After getting the whole country back: Gotaland - Svealand - Norrland Sameland and a new failed attack on Kurzeme . We secured Gotaland one last time! (With a good bit of help from our dear friends in the UK!)
In a month time Sweden was broke, not the country, but the citizens. And Lithuania had always had one of the best economies of e-sim, so they started winning. This was a strategy Lithuania had used before, making the opponent overkill until they could't afford to do so any more, it had worked before on Poland and it worked just as well this time against Sweden.
This forced a change upon Sweden, we had, since the summer had lowering activity both in-game and on IRC, not many new players and now we started losing old players too. This had to change, if we ever would want to be free again! And we had voted for just the man too do that
DevineMediator a very active CP with a fresh new government! IRC came alive again, and the government managed to arrange some great RWs, The first real important RW and the second . (yes we had a 8 man congress this month, mostly caused by 2 rogue party leaders removing almost every candidature, seen in our DOW )
During the second RW I had taken over as CP in Sweden, with the activity problem handled so well by our last CP
DevineMediator my first concern was the ever lowering number of players. This period started of as good as it gets, being occupied for over a month 
But with A LOT of help from my Ministers of Education 
champis and 
Greven1 we managed to get the ever dwindling player numbers to improve and more young Swedish players came into the game (at this time it took long for new players to become strong, so the change wasn't as fast as it would be today).
Sweden grew stronger and Lithuania kept occupying more and more territories, betraying both Norway and later United Kingdom too, offering them a deal that never became a reality.
During my second term as CP for Sweden, Lithuania found a way too even take advantage of our BB.
lokiju the Lithuanian CP at that time had already increased the Lithuanian (Swedish high is stone) tax on Stone/Estate/DS to 50%. And always had a top offer for 1eskill at the job market. Making all our new players (of who we all know 90% quit after 1 work) paying insane taxes to Lithuania and giving them even more money.
After I left my position as CP of Sweden
SMTaishan has run the country and not very much have honestly changed since my time, constant RWs have been replaced with spontatious RWs and the old Swedish policy on not paying for damage or mercenaries was voted down in congress.
But we continue to be proud, not to sign any NAP, even if it does not help us. It at least offers us something to fight for! And gives our MU leaders an easier time deciding where to put the MU-orders
TL;DR - Why do Sweden never win a RW, they have so many players?
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