Is this why Spain stayed neutral in both world wars? Why were they so poor?
>>2472240
wtf, did spain never industrialize or something
>>2472267
They've always traditionally been about a century behind the rest of Europe.
Blame all that gold from the Americas preventing them from needing any serious reforms for a while.
>a civil war lowers your GDP
gee who would've thought
>>2472240
Spain was a mess from the Napoleonic wars to the 1960s.
>>2472240
More importantly we should be asking how they still manage to keep up, even barely.
>Have to fight sandmonkeys for 700 years
>Don't understand inflation oops
>Get caught up being Popes golem
>Perpetual war with europe for almost another 200 years
>Have inbred autists bankrupt you
>Empire collapes twice
>JUSTED by Nappy
>Have 6 million civil wars
>Franco
How is Spain even still a thing lmao like just die already