What did the iberians do with all the gold and silver they stole from latin america?Did they use it to improve iberia, or did they just use it to fight wars for the Italians (Catholics) or for their German Hapsburg rulers?
>His cousin ruined Portuguese plans in Western Central Africa
FUCK OFF, MORON.
>>18408383they used that gold to build cathedrals hospitals and other institutionsthey are not like the portugays or brutish
>>18408386mestizo seethe kek
>>18408383They threw it all away going to war in the Netherlands. Then the commies looted it during the civil war.>>18408386No amount of LARPing as a conquistador online will ever change the fact that most of your ancestors were indios who were worked to death in silver mines while Iberian Caudillos fucked your women. Mexico isn't even the most genetically Iberian country in former Spanish America. Go flip a tortilla, panchito.
although a lot was spent on pointless wars, it lost most of its value due to inflation and a not insubstantial amount was pilfered by anglos
>>18408423based anglos
Imagine being so bad with money that a single Dutch privateer is able to drive your "empire" into bankruptcy.
>>18408433>>18408396kek no wonder they seethe about dutchies on /sp/ and /int/
>>18408383Portugal used it for empire buildingSpain used it to fight wars against the protestants
Does the USA produce the smartphone you use? Or your laptop? Or your air conditioner? Or your shower? Or your frying pan? Or the clothes you're wearing?Or does it use money to buy these things from places where they can be produced much cheaper?This was what the Iberians did in their golden age, with the silver flowing from Potosi and the gold flowing from Ouro Preto into the coffers of the Crown of Castille and Portugal respectively they bought commodities from places where they were produced cheaper than they would be if manufactories were set up from scratch to produce them. Ironically, it made economic sense at the time, as it does today for your country to import these goods instead of producing them.
>>18408459Though the dutch were the ones seething non stop about muh evil spaniards
>>18408846>Ironically, it made economic sense at the time, as it does today for your country to import these goods instead of producing them.It doesn't, there is no excuse not to turn to self-sufficiency when you have the resources for it.
>>18409271It makes perfect sense to have other people make shit for you for less money, that's just basic economics. Self-sufficiency is still on the table when it becomes absolutely necessary.
>>18409272Countries are not mere economic zones and making making your own goods is obviously worth the investment.>Self-sufficiency is still on the table when it becomes absolutely necessaryToo late, while you were wanking over your cleverness for importing crap for cheap the British were busy making their navy laughably dominant over yours. Kiss your empire goodbye, now you're left with no resources and no self-sufficiency.
>>18409271What about preserving your resources while you consume foreign resources and wring them dry?
>>18409262you're not spanish sanchez
>>18409778>you're not Spanish, [common Spanish surname]?????
>>18408846Specialisation relies on you having some other economic activity that you can do more of now that you have outsourced other work. In the US that is services, drugs etc.What was spain doing with the freed up time from outsourcing all that commodity manufacturing?Because the world's economy was less advanced I don't think they would have had such an activity.
>>18408386this is what you are doing when you aren't pedo posting on /tv/ Paco ?
>>18410119Not that Anon, but is "Michael Jackson" an English name, or is it the name of a man of mostly West African descent? What about "Malcolm Little" or "Christopher George Wallace"?Names aren't always a good indicator of a person's genetic composition.
>>18408394>cathedralsaka a waste of money. The only thing churches deserve is to be demolished or converted into pagan temples.
>>18411494Drugs used by USAians are developed by European labs.Services used by discerning USAians are developed by European and Chinese companies.Would you like to try and cope some more? Do you think your wealthy countrymen buy pharmaceuticals, digital scales and have a digital bank account made in the USA?
>>18409275Indeed, the Poles did the same thing, making tons of money exporting grain and other agricultural products throughout Europe, while actively looking with disdain on any kinda manufacturing, preferring to import finished products.The American South also followed this philosophy but thankfully the North pushed their shit in.Unfortunately, America has been doing this for 30 years now, exporting cheap raw materials and importing high value finished goods from overseas, all so that a handful of Wall Street parasites can profit.
>>18409271North Korea is the only almost self suficient country in 2026 except for their defense (lmao) which is funded by China.They get US dollars to live via cybercrime.Self suffiency is a beautiful ideal, my country's leader tried to stick to it through the 60s and 70s, but the USA and the Soviet Union fucked pur ass for trying it
>>18411653I can tell you are Romanian. Ask me how I know.
>>18411653It’s not a question of either/or, a nation should strive for self sufficiency where practical and not blow it’s wealth on imports because a few importers can make a profit.
>>18408383The silver was shipped directly to China. It never was even unloaded in Iberia.
>>18408383They gave it all to Moscow, then Putin dropped in the Gulf of Azov. It's gone now.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Gold_(Spain)
>>18408383They had no ability to turn that wealth into economic growth because they shot themselves in the foot by driving out their natural merchant classes (i.e Jews and Muslims) and in the case of the Jews, drove them straight over to their enemies the Dutch.
>>18411641hmmm nah I think the US still does a lot of stuff and exports lots of servicesMost of the big project management, accountancy and management consultants firms are american.American exports big tech, movies and medical technology.I don't have enough knowledge to back/defend my argument though...
