Recently I decided to delve into the history of European nations, in particular their origins, in order to create a well grounded hierarchy between them (or, to be more precise, to justify the already visible hierarchy). It would seem that the first thing that's obvious is the superiority of the Northern Europe over the Southern. There could be no problems with this, since the North and South are distinguished by different dominant components, the steppe Aryan and the farmer Mediterranean. Be that as it may, everything is constantly changing, and throughout history Europe has undergone many changes, the main one being the replacement of the North-South dichotomy with West-East. More precisely, the emergence of the last, since the first hasn't disappeared anywhere, but remains.
It's known that North-Western Europe and the origin associated with it presupposes a higher intelligence. Thus, the first division of Europe should be the following — North and South. First, let's deal with the South. Here everything is very simple — the white population of the Western Mediterranean contains fewer non-White (and more basically Mediterranean) components in themselves than their eastern relatives from, let's say, mainland Greece.
Now that everything about Southern Europe is known, it would be worth moving on to Northern Europe. Here, everything becomes much more complicated in understanding racial reality.
As I have already noted, it's namely the North-Western Europeans who intellectually come to the forefront of their race, while North-Eastern Europe and the origins associated with it lag behind in their cognitive abilities of the brain (although they're still higher than Southern Europe, but nonetheless). The first thing, we could connect this with, is the (genetic) location of the Celto-Germanics of North-Western Europe in the "ideal center" between the three main White genetic components of the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and the Pontic steppe. However, such an "ideal and balanced combination", even coupled with the absence of non-White admixtures (with the exception, perhaps, of the Boer-Afrikaners, although it's not quite correct to bring them as an example), couldn't explain this difference. To understand the context of the situation, I'll simply clarify that Asiatic and Saami-like admixtures are relatively widespread among Eastern Europeans (in particular, Balto-Slavics), but not only does any significant percentage of them come from the Finno-Ugrics (and most Russians, too, "I wonder why"), but these admixtures may not be detected individually at all .
Turning back to the source on which the passage about the intellectual superiority of the "North-Western brain" was based, it's worth paying attention to the connection of these data with what anthropology provides us, which was also discussed in the already mentioned article [
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3171282/, fig. 2 & 3 respectively]. Namely, I mean the similarity of the skulls and external appearance of the population of the North-Western square of Europe with the skulls and external appearance of the representatives of the Corded Ware (CWC). Measurements of the steppe herders of the East-European Plain show that their height, skull and physique were quite mature and robust. In particular, their skulls were absolutely enormous, as was their height, but it's important to note that these indicators were also observed in the CWC people, who already had dolichocephalic and, apparently, leptorrhine heads, due to the large absolute values of the skull ("Another combination of features, almost never encountered in the Neolithic materials, is characteristic of most of the Corded Ware samples located at the very bottom of the graph (f): very long, narrow, dolichocranic, high skulls" - "О краниологических признаках западных миграций в Восточную Европу в эпоху Бронзы", 2024). We can observe the same picture in Northwestern Europe (what are the Dutch alone worth, if not the Swedes).
But these are only external signs. Speaking of genetics, it would be fair to say, that the Slavics have as many Northern-European and in particular purely Steppe traces in their blood as their Celto-Germanic relatives, if not a little more (!). However, despite this, try to look at the distances of the representatives of the CWC with the Northerners of the Centum (Celto-Germanicsl and (Balto-Slavics) Satem groups, and you'll find that the Germans are the closest racial group similar to them, and this can be traced both from the western borders of the culture and right up to its easternmost outskirts (Sintashta). Apparently, WHG and ANF admixtures in the Germans could compensate for each other, aligning their coordinates with the Aryan tribes of the Early Bronze Age. This could fit very well with the idea that White nations of northwestern origin are the most successful of the Europeans due to the "perfect balance", but let's be honest, this is a very dumb assumption. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the Germanica are the closest peoples to the ancient populations that once spread the Indo-European languages throughout Eurasia, which is an advantage for them.
Returning to the topic of the phenotype, I would like to mention one interesting detail - the Germanics and North-Western (and simply Western) Europeans are generally lighter than the Slavics and Eastern Europeans as such. This could put us on the right track in the regard of where the main difference between the Slavics and the Germanics could be traced. And the difference is eugenic, but so old and inherent in today's European nations, that it's already hereditary. In general, already discussing the current issue with a ukrainian acquaintance, he also supported the opinion about the "qualitative" difference between the Northern European folks. Delving into the subject of how the traits of light hair and eye pigmentation spread across Europe, it's worth starting with the fact that all ancient White populations were inclined to light hair and eyes. However, these were only tendencies, and the mentioned traits were quite rare. But still, why is it so important to be blond?