What if the Dutch Republic Just Existed, but It's Off the West Coast of Denmark?

The Dutch, there's a premium for being first in any place, right? The Dutch have enjoyed it immensely because they were the innovators. They created the blueprint that the British eventually then took from them. And ended up, they fought a couple of wars, but it ended up being a leverage buyout. Like when they brought William and Mary over in 1688, that is essentially a corporate merger between the Dutch and English colonial enterprises. Do you think then that the Dutch are really Northern Europe is part of this like greater imperial polity that we're now creating in our minds?