Strategic Axis with Sweden

In the first decades of the 17th century Lithuania's king had converted to Protestantism and started to support the two branches of the Reformation. All in all his ideal was an effective and modern monarchy much inspired by the Swedish kings. Building up a Protestant Church of Lithuania and getting inspiration for governmental and societal reforms, the king turned to Sweden. The cooperation was of mutual benefits as Sweden soon got a Protestant friend in otherwise heretic Eastern Europe. Slowly the friendship brought a strong alliance about and King Ladislovas I eagerly encouraged Gustav II Adolphus to promote Protestantism in Germany. He himself would hold the Catholics and Orthodox of the East in check.