"Speaking for the people and the kingdom of Sweden and Norway, I am truly sad for what Europe has become in a small matter of months. Perhaps the Russians, Prussians, Austrians, Peruvians and Bolivians, Spanish and Mexicans might have declared war on my kingdom over the question of existence of Finland and Denmark, but I will not let the accomplishments and goals of my predecessors of my role as king be wasted, why no! We shall show the Holy Alliance what we shall do what we are truly capable of doing, we will not let the Scandinavian culture end for the next millennia! We request the great powers to truly ask themselves, "is the killing of thousands of innocents worth it to win over our enemies?", "is destroying culture and history the best way for Europe?", "how can we better under peace and not a war in the global scale". The reason I want Denmark to establish a new Kalmar Union, which I'll admit might seem a little imperialistic, but will be the best way for the Scandinavian nations to unite as one, now I'd like to know why the Holy Alliance wants Finland or Montenegro? Perhaps we do not need war and expansion and militarism to solve our conflicts, maybe we just need peace for our nations, maybe we need diplomacy rather than brutal war over millions of innocents to get back on an enemy. Maybe we need a simple solution to our problems, we need to know what the people want, now I know most kingdoms don't want to do so, but a democracy will be the better way to a better European civilization; imagine if the people in the Arabian peninsula, or Asia, or Africa are considering us uncivilized over our imperialistic nature and our solution to it! War. War will not solve our problems, it's a mistake that has been passed over to us, and it's our job to never let it expand."-Charles XIV John of Sweden and Norway, upon his learning of the Austrian Declaration of War to his kingdom.