who were some potential superpowers from past times that

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Every Latin American country.

>2 posters
wew, i thought canalposters were rare
also argentina and brazil are literally the only example of this i can think of.

Rhodesia

>>69934289
This, Mexico had so much potential at the begining of the last century

>>69933951
Brazil.

Brazilian economy collapsed spectacularly.

>>69934503
;_;

>>69934289
This desu
It's a shame

what happened with latin america then that caused it so go down so bad? was it usa influence?

>>69934708
Two reasons; the first was old money and established governments and governing classes losing their influence to the plebes and the second was the US and USSR using South America as a proxy battleground. The latter reason also had a hand in the former.

> Maximilian's Mexico
> federated Austria-Hungary
> stable Gran Colombia
> PLC without liberum veto

>>69934289
>>69934289

Only Brazil. Only they have the potential populaation to evn think of being a superpower.

Paraguary or Peru etc arent going to be superpowers no matter what