ITT: Post your cunt's worst leaders (hard mode: no current head of state please)
>ultimate piece of shit who revoked our first constitution and ruled as a tyrant >when Spain was in ruins and starving from the Napoleonic Wars, he decided to go and try to reclaim control over jungle monkeys on the other side of the Atlantic >the sailors mutinied and refused to go >as he lay dying, he named his daughter as his successor for one last big fuck you so she could then take over and fuck Spain over further in the coming decades
The biggest autist to have ever ruled this country, because of him we lost our independence and our great power status , all of this because he wanted to larp as a crusader in the 16th century and conquer a bunch of desert.
Actually I would say he was your best leader ever. :^)
Kevin Miller
Walter Ulbricht was kind of up there.
Henry Baker
Anthony Eden is the worst one of the 20th century at least. He made a lot of mistakes, but the biggest one was probably Suez, since it very clearly showed the entire world that the UK couldn't take military action against other countries without America's approval first, and led to decolonisation shortly afterwards.
not even close East Germany was going to be Soviet-aligned anyway, didn't matter who was the puppet leader
Levi Gonzalez
Charles II, but he never really ruled the country under his own power anyway. Still a very dark, awful time with famines and plague outbreaks as we had a literal potato for a king. His reign was possibly one of the lowest points in Spain's history.
Some argue his decision to do nothing when the Southern states began seceding was ultimately sound judgement because by allowing them to draw first blood at Ft. Sumter, the South came off as the aggressor and ruined most of their chances of foreign recognition.
Andrew Green
>Not George w Bush
Levi Lee
IDK, Thatcher pretty much handled the Falklands conflict unilaterally without any US support, even rejecting offers of help.
Bush was just meh. Obanana was some awful cross between 420chan and Jow Forumspolitics.
Chase Ward
>IDK, Thatcher pretty much handled the Falklands conflict unilaterally without any US support, even rejecting offers of help. That was different though, the Falkland Island was the UK responding to a foreign invasion of its territories, while the Suez Crisis was the UK invading a foreign country to seize a strategic asset. If the UK had tried to invade the Argentine mainland, the US would have told Thatcher to fuck off.
Adam Rodriguez
Anyway, after Ferdinand kicked the bucket, his infant daughter Isabella became queen which of course meant a long regency. When she became queen under her own power, she plotted and schemed with the most hardline Catholic reactionary monarchists and we had civil wars every 16 months. She also fought stupid wars to try and reclaim some of South America (why?) and Spain didn't recognize the independence of the colonies until well into mid-century.
Ian Collins
Warren Harding but even then not completely awful since he did end Wilson's police state and freed his political prisoners.
Dominic Turner
Anyone who says LBJ wasn't the worst of the last 100 years is full of shit.
Joseph Evans
Of course you do, but he was a fucking traitor to Russia.
Julian Parker
It was hard to settle for one given that Fujimori and Alan García exist, but I think that this guy had a more significant impact on this cunt, or at least the effects of his meddling were more lasting.
Oh but we made such a cute couple together. Why did you have to file for divorce in the Restoration War?
Caleb Phillips
The guy only saved you from gommunism and all that.
Aiden Butler
Can't imagine that they were worse leaders than a guy who was mentally and physically retarded through generations of incest and basically did anything his 'advisors' told him. In his fifth ancestral generation he had 10 instead of 32 ancestors.
Bush didn't put gay pride colors on the White House.
Jonathan Martin
To be honest I have no problem with an Iberian Union, I think that if Iberia was united we would be a powerful country and it would be beneficial for both of our countries
John Myers
At first Spain and Portugal had more of a confederation where the Spanish monarch ruled both cunts but Portugal still had their own laws, Parliament, currency, etc. What provoked the RW was when Philip IV began trying to integrate Portugal directly as a province. Also Spain continued forbidding trade and commerce between theirs and Portugal's colonies.
Lucas Allen
Bush started wars no one knows why. Wars in which perhaps hundreds of thousands of people died. And 9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq.
And Obama's main fault is that he put a fucking rainbow on a building?
Gommunism creeped into Spain because of Franco. The Republic wasn't communist before Franco's revolt.
Bentley Ramirez
>A Romanian >An oligarch >Literally do nothing positive >Spend all of Hungary's resources on wars with the HRE and some family trouble's with his kin >Create more oligarchs >Literally be the number one cause for Mohács >Somehow gets no blame
Zachary Lopez
Matthias Corvinus?
Hudson Green
All our 20th century leaders were shit-tier
Christopher Peterson
Nicholas II was a moron who destroyed the country but he wasn't entirely responsible for the death of the Empire, not to mention his genius of a father decided to postpone Nicky's education until the guy was thirty. When Nicholas was 26 Alexander III died. Such is life on the Russia.
Gorbachev had good intentions but was far too weak of a ruler to ever carry out his plans. Some of his reforms did the country good but overall his time in charge of the USSR was an everworsening crisis that ended with the biggest JUSTing Russia has ever experienced.
So my pick is Mikhail Romanov although if I could do so without breaking the rules of the thread, I'd pick the majority of the Romanovs. Both this retord and his son were puppets of the boyars and that set the tone for the entirety of that dynastys reign since most subsequent Romanovs ended up being mere puppets of whatever faction allowed them to sit on the throne. Them getting the Crown of Muscovy was a tragic mistake.
Christian IV if I'm to include the Denmark-Norway era. Changed Denmark-Norway from one of the richest and most successful nations in Europe into a poor irrelevant backwater state after foolishly changing side at the end of the Thirty Years' War in an attempt to spite Sweden and getting BTFO. Ended Denmark's dominance in the North forever and boosted Sweden to a great regional power.
In modern times it's probably Johan Nygaardsvold if you were to exclude Vidkun Quisling. Left the nation more or less completely undefended for the German invasion after years of downplaying the importance of a strong military and operational readiness.
All your pre-20th cent. ancestors lived in dugouts and eats shit
Justin Carter
The Americans did try to intervene on behalf of Argentina in the Falklands, the only reason it didn't happen is that Galtieri overplayed his hand and rejected US support.
Jason Phillips
Then why didn't his "successor" repeal it?
David Foster
>And Obama's main fault is that he put a fucking rainbow on a building? Have you any idea just how many people including civilians died because of drone attacks he ordered?
Basically, 90% of today's mexican politicians. The only good things he did was defeating the spaniards that tried to reconquer us, killing filibuster rebels and making possible the creation of chewing gum.
Así es como murió:"...Sin embargo en 1874 lo dejaron volver a casa. No hubo multitudes cuando puso pies en Veracruz y el tren a Ciudad de México lo llevó en completo anonimato. Entonces trató de conseguir sueldos caídos como soldado y que le devolvieran sus propiedades pero todo le fue negado. Ese año se celebró el aniversario de la batalla de Churubusco con desfiles y discursos, pero el hombre que había comandado las tropas no fue invitado. Con su memoria, su salud y su vista en franco deterioro, Santa Ana murió de diarrea crónica el 21 de junio de 1876..."
>Both this retord and his son were puppets of the boyars They were upset that Ivan the Terrible had terrorized the boyars into submission so they weren't going to let that happen again.
Camden Parker
he was mentally sound you absolute fucking retard, his body was fucked though.
Jaxon Brown
Isn't Spain full of commies because of him, though?
Jack Young
Didn't this guy fancy himself the Napoleon of the west or something?
Once veces presidente de México, Antonio López de Santa-Ana Pérez de Lebrón —Su Serena Majestad, General en Jefe del Ejercito Libertador de la República Mexicana, Merecedor de su País, Héroe de Tampico, Héroe de Veracruz, Benefactor de la Patria, el Napoleón del Oeste (el mismo se había proclamado como todo esto)—
>learnt to speak at the age of four >mentally sound
Henry Morales
I agree with your choice. Mine is Mario Soares. I knew it D. SEBASTIAO would end up in here, peasents dont understand that in fact he was our finest King sincr Manuel I, i love everything that D. Sebastiao defended.
Thank you hermano for knowing so much about our history. Sebastiao was a King amoungst Kings.
John Kelly
Because our rights were not respected and Filipe III ( of Portugal) allowed our colonys to be taken and actively took out soldiers and canons from the garrisons. The lost of Malacca and Hormuz showed that the spanish crown didnt knew shit about Asia that at the time was the pearl of Hispanic expansion.
Caleb Lee
Three retards in a row. Yahya Khan, Zulfikar Bhutto, and Zia al-Haq
>Yahya >mostly known as the guy who lost Bangladesh >Bhutto >retard commie who tried to create wealth redistribution in the global 1970s recessions >gets couped and sentenced to death by Zia, who then tries to impose sharia law and finally his plane crashes under mysterious circumstances >good riddance
Lucas Evans
If you want to go back into the Middle Ages, there were some awful kings like Edward II.
Gavin Reed
As also mentioned, the Portuguese and Spanish colonies were only allowed limited contact and trade with each other.
But that was a good thing, but is as you say the real problem was the attempt to integrate Portugal even tho in our union we were promissed to keep our coin, noble houses and language in oficial business. But the lost of colonys caused sutch great unrest that the peasents literally were ready to kill all nobles that refused to fight the King pf Spain.
Luke Wilson
>Unironically liking the H*henzollern Accept the big Habsburg chin
I'm sure it was wonderful how he reduced the nation to abject poverty and international isolation, allied with the fascists of Germany and Italy,, brutally suppressed the Spanish working class and imprisoned, tortured, and murdered tens of thousands.
Of course in reality the man was merely a puppet of the extreme reactionary forces of the landed class and the Church who oppressed the masses for many generations. Which is fine if you like living in poverty, having 25 children because condoms are sinful and believing that a man in the sky will get angry at you if you use your penis a certain way he doesn't like.
Luke Williams
t. historylet Anarchists were always more powerful than Communists in the Spanish republic. Communists were literal whos until well into the war when Soviets sent advisors like comrade Orlov.
David Perez
I heard his self sufficiency plan fucked over the spanish economy for good
Franco was so horrible to Spain that the average Spaniards' height from the times of the Republic wasn't reached again until the 70s. Starvation and deprivation caused by Fascists literally made us a manlet nation.
Xavier Brooks
In the first decade after WWII when Spain was isolated and rebuilding from the civil war, but by the mid-50s the country's international isolation was ending and they started to be re-integrated into the trans-Atlantic economy.
Ryder Morris
>Using height as a metric for a countries prosperity
What about Nixon? Was he a good president? I don't know about your internal intensions, but from the external side Obama could irritated russia very well.
Adrian Long
desu I heard he gain a good amount of his backing from left wing unions and cooperatives. Wasn't Riveras whole idea to compose a new nation based on autonomous worker run syndicates?
Jaxon Moore
lol
Anthony Cruz
>What about Nixon? Was he a good president? Not really, no.
didn't he let Moroccan troops rape spanish women as payment?
Luke Reed
reddit.
Brandon Smith
Well starvation does affect height but was in fact duo to extreme dependency on grains and lack of meat, thats why northens are taller then us , they only have grain base diet in the last 2 centurys.
