Why isn't Spain the wealthiest European country considering they colonized most of the Americas?

Why isn't Spain the wealthiest European country considering they colonized most of the Americas?

Because they spent it all on the Spanish Armada and then it was sunk by the English (and stormy weather).

Lasting wealth does not come from luck.

Because they muh dikked the entire continent instead of developing it.

All resources spent exploiting the raw natural resources of the New World (especially fucking around the continent looking for gold) and not developing colonies that could produce finished goods and trade.

>colonized
plundering gold then spending it all at once so it has no value is not how to make wealth

They had shit tier aristocracy and serfdom.

English colonies prospered regardless of resource wealth because individuals could do shit and make a buck for themselves.

Because the Spanish are lazy as shit even Mexico has a better economy

Cuz their economy was based on extracting gold. Not very sustainable and not developing other industries. The case is similar with oil countries like Saudi Arabia.

Because they got cucked by the monroe doctrine.

>so much wealth, hyperinflation

War of sucession fucked them beyond repair.

They could even had united France If the anglos didn't jewed everyone

lazy, take naps in the middle of the day

There were no serfdom in Spain when they started colonizing the new world.

There lazy and run up there debt like crazy

This.

People here really underestimate the contribution of the anglo yeomanry to Britain and later America becoming super powers

the spanish went to the new world for glory, god, and greed.

the english went to the new world for greed, greed and greed.

Commoners had no rights. The Aristocracy had all the power.

Former Spanish colonies still don't have full common law equivalent of rights, which is why so many of them are/were ruled by dictators.

they think they are too cool to ally with us, we could have (and still can) made spanish the world's language and culturally dominate the entire planet, but no, spain is too cool to do that, better keep bitching with portugal

Because they are lazy as fuck and take a 4 hour lunch.

They were fucked for most of the 19th century because they couldn't recognise the Carlist claim to the monarchy as being the valid one

Probably same reason the colonies themselves aren't rich.

The anglo realized he had to exterminate the native shitskins.

The spaniard got used to fucking shitskins when they mixed with moors during the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula, so aside from being genetically inferior they also acquired a taste for degenerate mixing.

TLDR it's because of fucking muslims

The French went to the New World for glory and God.

Something something Spanish people are arab shitskin tier

They imported so much jew gold and silver from the new world that inflation caused them to be poor again.

On the plus side they also spent so much of it in China that their whole country fell apart too. That's pretty sick.

Because they expelled the Jews.

Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.

because they are brown and have siesta tier IQ.s
> colonized most of the Americas
a few port cities. come on now.

This essentially dismisses the myth that the wealth of Western countries comes from imperialism.

They kicked the Jews out the same year Columbus discovered America. The Jews went to Denmark. They took the trade routes and started the East India Company. Simple as that.

> the english went to the new world for greed, greed and greed.

And they also robbed the spanish blind.

Henry Morgan says hello.

eh, but there is a reason english conloneys around teh world presisited a lot longer, they actully built things like meeting halls and court houses, and many other such civil society institutions. Compare with a dutch colony run like a work camp and that collapses the second they leave. There was a reason all of central America left mexcio after independence, their government was weak as shit.

Foghtin heretics aint cheap. Enjoy the moros

>explain my mental gymnastics for me
no

Catholic colonies turned brown and poor while anglo colonies stayed White and prospered.

Because Catholic

Cucked by Britain after the Armada got beat up. Defeated the British at some coastal fort so they could keep Latin America.

Then they stayed bitter and did their own thing.


- went Japan style isolationists for a while

Stayed out of WW1 and WW2. They were basically... "Fuck you guys, we're staying home."

"Cold War? What Cold War? No Cold War here."

Just doing their own thing, much like Latin America. Haven't been drawn into a world war or anything.

Portugal empire > Spanish empire
fight me

>Portugal
> first global empire in world history
> longest-lived of the modern European colonial empires
>Portugal ruled Spanish empire for 60 years
>Ran Brazil, only country not compete shit south of U.S.

Plus they did lots of exploration and discovered tons of places. João Vaz Corte-Real (Portuguese) was even the first European to see Canada and leave proof that he did it

Spain cucked itself by losing all their land to the Moors. They were several hundred years behind the rest of Europe due to the invasion of Islam.

Because they blew it all on bullshit wars and the Church and simply raped the continent instead of developing it. But hey, assholes gonna do what assholes gonna do.

They took it from America, then the French and the British took from them again. If anything they're evidence that wealth can be stolen and leaves the victim without anything left.

Weber please

The countries of the Mediterranean are lazy given their current political systems. Only Fascism can save them (hence why it started in the Mediterranean). But that will probably never ever happen

You gotta be troll'n right now.

Spain post-reconquista was the most powerful nation on the planet until the Protestant nations rekt their shit.

Spanish crown controlled Iberia, Most of Italy, the Holy Roman Empire, and all those sweet colonies.

It all went down hill after they fucked up the invasion of England, and got beat the fuck out of the Netherlands.