Neutral in WWI

>neutral in WWI
>neutral in WWII
How did they do it?

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High testosterone as all NeutralChads have, intimidated aggressors

by being an irrelevant shithole

This.

We were literally too poor for war

This

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There were lots of non-neutral irrelevant shitholes. Nice try Jordi.

This is the non meme, actual valid answer
Franco wanted to participate in ww2 but hitler decided not to let him into the club because spain would be another burden (he already had enough with italy)

Why didn't you join ww1 then? I thought the reason for not joining ww2 was because of the whole Civil war

spain was balkan tier in the early 20th century

>WWI
Still recovering from... everything, the 19th century was a roller coaster of civil wars, regular wars and general unstability. Couldn't have fought a large escale war for shit
>WWII
Still recovering from the Civil War, the famous one.

>Get your people killed and infastructure destroyed
>NO I prefer fucking pussy

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That's what I was always made to believe. Spain had its civil war before WWII and was too fucked from that to join.
No excuse for WWI though

Why would Spain want to get bombed to dust?

You got it the opposite way.
Hitler wanted Franco to give payback for the Civil War aid, but France knew he would just throw away resources and embarass the country so just sent the Blue Division and that's it.

For fun, just like everyone else in WWI. It was an excuse to test out new weapons and show off

>no excuse for WWl
lmao

>Wow Spain so pussy not wanting to get bombed and invaded
>USA never got bombed or fought on it's soil

Yeah, just look at the Americans. We wanted to kill people for fun and collect souvenirs so we joined the war in the last year.

What is WWII and the Aleutian Islands campaign?

Only true answer ITT.

>not neutral in the Iraq invasion
fuck off.

iirc he also wanted lots of land in north africa, but hitler didn't wan't to give it away

They weren't neutral

Wasn't it only France who told the US to fuck off when we wanted to invade Iraq.
Interestingly it was Poland who is our greatest ally and will follow us through hell and back if asked to. Based Poland.

Spain had three (3) civil wars during the 19th century and countless other revolts and coups d'etat. It didn't really stop until Franco decided to just butcher the whole other side and part of his own.

>WWI
King told France to give us tangiers and some moroccan lands but France said no. Also Spain was unstable and poor so if we had entered the war we would have had a civil war like Russia

>WWII
The civil war left the country in shambles, Franco wanted to join but Hitler didn't accept his demands, then got bribed by the brits and sent a volunteers division against Russia.

Some say that the spanish are still recovering to this day during their siestas.

only reason spain participated was aznar being bff with bush
nobody else wanted to go to iraq

>neutral in WWI
>neutral in WWII
nothing complicated about that.

if you consider it a proxy war, you could say the spanish civil war was actually part of WWII

it was not a proxy war and it was not part of WWII

This.

freedom for catalonia when?

No one wants to land grab the Iberian peninsula and no Spaniard had ever the desire to invade France to expand territory because, well, it'd be a terrible idea.

>no Spaniard had ever the desire to invade France to expand territory because, well, it'd be a terrible idea
For France

They stopped giving fucks

>WW1
huge economic and social crysis in spain
>WW2
just had a huge civil war wich had the axis power and URSS involved

>Franco wanted to participate in ww2 but hitler decided not to let him
liteirally the opposite, you retard
germans even had a plan to march through spain to block the gibraltar strait, but Franco didnt want to
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Felix

A far more interesting mystery indeed. The borders haven't changed at all in the 20th century. Not even Nazi Germany iirc wanted to incorporate the German speaking population into the fold. Any historians might tell me how that was possible?

> In order for a conflict to be considered a proxy war, there must be a direct, long-term relationship between external actors and the belligerents involved.[2] The aforementioned relationship usually takes the form of funding, military training, arms, or other forms of material assistance which assist a belligerent party in sustaining its war effort.
>Many proxy wars began assuming a distinctive ideological dimension after the Spanish Civil War, which pitted the fascist political ideology of Italy and National Socialist ideology of Nazi Germany against the communist ideology of the Soviet Union without involving these states in open warfare with each other.[7] Sponsors of both sides also used the Spanish conflict as a proving ground for their own weapons and battlefield tactics.
sounds like a proxy war to me
also while not being part of WWII, it missed it by only 5 months and the belligerent ideologies definitely match in both cases

not worth it and it's good to have a corner where you cannot be attacked from

How were the spanish military power back in WW2?

Comparable to Poland?

>Not even Nazi Germany iirc wanted to incorporate the German speaking population into the fold. Any historians might tell me how that was possible?
The wanted to very much so, but Europe's finest natural fortress and 800k rifles did the trick just fine.

You and Germany needed each other to whitewash jewish gold

>muh gold
You're just salty that you got stomped again.

And what would have we done there? We hadn't exactly been buddies with France and England.

I'm salty and you're a liar, a deceiver, an hypocrite and a son of a bitch

We have been in Civil War since early XIX until late 30s of the XX century, that's how

>mad Beurette is mad
shouldn't you be on some Trotskyist demo or something?

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even if they could participate, what was there for them to gain? Colonies?

take it easy

Too busy depressed after the embarrassment of 1898

Call it embarrassment, call it liberation.

COPE

Still, despite evading destruction of 2 world wars and having possibility to profit from them, Spain managed to get nothing from this.
Too busy making bets I suppose

>What is generation of '98?

>they avoided world wars so they were untouched
Eeh, no, sweetheart. Why would you need other people to destroy your country when you can do that by yourself?

We profited of WWI, however. There was a surprisingly prosperous arms industry in Spain during those times, and cities like Barcelona were hubs for spies of all sides. We also provided manufactured products that the warring factions were too busy killing each other to produce, mainly aimed at civilians. It wasn't enough for them, but we made some considerable gains. Then the economy got fucked up again after the demands for war tools was depleted upon peacetime; the US had to deal with something similar, although, obviously, their infrastructure at the time was much more solid than ours.

By having their empire stolen by England in the 18th Century. Dismembered by France and America in the 19th century and century of Trauma until Franco arrived and murdered thousands.

ESPAÑA was robbed and all major powers must pay reparations. In fact, in America Latina, they owe century of interest on unpaid taxes for unjust guerras de independencias and stolen Spanish gold. This must be paid.

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Redpilled

No Brazilian is human, once you step in that country you are Macaco for the rest of your life and so are all your children.

Became too irrelevant and poor to wield any significant power .

Brits dead in ww1 and ww2 millions
Dead in Spain 0

Who is dumb now

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We sent the "División Azul" to fight in Russia.

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Nazis wanted Spen to join, Hitler came here to talk with Franco, it's a key point to control North Africa and the Atlantic, but Spain was under threat of blockade by the UK and Merica and the country was really fucked, we also could lose the Canary Islands against the Anglos, we had plans to join the Axis after Barbosa if succeed.