Why did Spain become irrelevant when the other big European empires didn’t?

Why did Spain become irrelevant when the other big European empires didn’t?

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Spain didn't start nearly as much shit with the other empires as Britain, France, Russia, and the assorted Germans did.

This, except we were the invaded. Fuck fr*g, d*tch and *nglo subhumans

Because they got cucked the most by all the other powers. Southern Netherlands was constantly under siege by France, Germany and the Netherlands. Their overseas colonies attacked by the British and us and of course later on the USA pretty much denied them everything they had.

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Do those idiots still believe they are white?

Never trust women to do this.
We are BLACK, subhuman

everything is the fault of the British, Americans and Dutch, the eternal enemies of the Hispanic nations.

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Probably done by libtard art "degree" to mock religion.

France was worse than all the others combined

medieval Spaniards were Nordic Aryans, that's why, get woke

Unironically the dutch were a biggest problems for our colonies than UK. The only thing they did was to capture La Havana when Spainwas already a decaying corpse. Meanwhile you seized a colony in Brazil during our peak that forced us to send five tercios across the Atlantic. Don’t fall for the english propaganda, you innovated a lot in the sailing science and had colonies across the planet way before them.

Subhuman mestizo hands did this image

good, r*ligion is for faggots

I knew a woman from Madrid. She was white and blue-eyes.

"the image was created by the user: germanyball"

Well they started first, so the other empires kinda went carte blanche for fucking their shit. Also Spain was never really a good mercantile empire, mostly they conquered and took mineral wealth, which caused massive inflation problems. Also they larped as catholics too hard, so they spent way too much on religious wars, and also belgians for some reason. Finally they were conquered by France, which was the death knell for most of their colonial properties

dios mio desu

Because we were relevant when they werent

>France is actually the worst warmonger in the european history
>Because of WW2 everyone forgot this

gross mismanagement of national gold reserves

That's actually accurate because Christian figures were indeed painted.

because this shithole is not european?

Being white is not about skin and eye colour. It's also about furthering the interests of white people and we have been trying to sabotage white people since the counter-reformation.

The eternal Habsburg

Peaked too early/ declined before the industrial revolution.

honestly this

>implying they haven't

this 3bh, we should have invested all the golds we had in industry and not castles and palaces

what's the story behind that pic? don't tell me that the original was actually ruined

Non-meme answer (>implying anyone cares)

1. They effectively invented hyperinflation before anyone even knew what the hell it was. The New World had gold and silver beyond what anyone had even deemed possible. Prior to it the value of gold and silver (which was literally what money was made of at the time, there was a time when a Pound Sterling was literally a coin made of Sterling silver that weighed a pound) was very stable as there was a limited amount to go around and digging up new gold and silver went very slowly. Then suddenly a fuckhuge amount of gold and silver was dumped into Spain from the colonies. What this meant is that everyone suddenly had a much larger amount of gold and silver to buy the same limited number of goods and services with, meaning everything became more expensive. This disaster, which weakened Spain, contributed in part to the invention of modern economics (to answer the question: what happened?).

2. Relative to its size Britain has/had STUPID amounts of coal. The Low Lands had some decent amount of coal as well, same for Germany. For France it was mostly concentrated in the Northern regions (hence WW1 being so harsh on them, over half of their industrial area was occupied by the Germans due to this) and America had loads of coal by virtue of its sheer size. Southern European countries never had large supplies of natural coal. As such it took them much longer to industrialize.

3. Resistance to the Enlightenment. Napoleon had to drag Iberia into modernity kicking and screaming and by the time of the restoration they fell back into their old ways. That's why they were some of the last in Europe to -for example- outlaw serfdom (instrumental in creating a working class, which in turn is instrumental to industry).

Pic related tells you everything you need to know about 2 and 3. Industrial zones popped up mostly in areas with a lot of coal and even today these areas are generally Europe's industrial centers (blue banana).

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