Why didn't Spain win the Eighty Years' War?

>>581806

Cause France, England, the German Mess, Mediterranean and Ottoman Empire.

>>581812
But they had much mor power and overall superiority

>>581816

Thats why managed to keep alive without fully imploding.

> yez

>>581816
The Republic was better at making money (Dutch financing vs. Spanish colonialism as a model of the transition from feudalism to modernity) and a and was a useful proxy for Spain's enemies (predominantly Protestants) There were a lot of those, especially in the parts of Europe whose rulers felt threatened by Spanish expansion on the continent around the beginning of the 16th century.