German and Russian are cousins by taxonomy, as are German and Hindi, and Hungarian and Suomi.
But if their grammar is practically the same, then maybe they should be brothers..
Beware, such analogies can be deceiving. This is not genetics after all. There's no meaningful way to compare such distances in unrelated families, e.g. the distance between two Finno-Ugric languages to the distance between two Indo-European ones.
To remind some people (especially americans ) of the size of the Dutch Empire
A pity it isn't that big anymore, it isn't even an empire anymore.. Anyway, the Dutch ruled over a substantial percentage of the sea in that time (more than the English).
also, if you oppress a country, how could it possibly oppress an other country in turn? So make other countries stop oppressing eachother by oppressing them yourself!