Portugal

>>3026349

Not enough of a European power base. When push comes to shove, the Portugese didn't have the muscle. Didn't help that they fell under Spainish rule for a while.

They also fucked themselves by signing the treaty of Tordesillas without knowing how much shit was west of that line. Their other colonies didn't have a heavy portugese presence themselves, and the Dutch out-competed them.

The Dutch in return were supplanted by the British, who implemented much more direct involvement and had more european settlers.

>>3026380
do you tink tordesillas was a bad deal? they got brazil from it, which is more than they were probably even expecting. Would trump not approve?

>>3026403

Tordesillas is an exceptionally bad deal, just look at which parts of the Americas speak spainish and which parts speak Portugese.

Furthermore, the Spainish used Tordesillas to justify a conflict in Indonesia. Since they were "west" of the tordesillas line.

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>>3026420
so the eternal spaniard ispretty muc to blame for te portuguese downfall. who else?