Why?

Why?

cooper

Guano

Chile needed more coast

Chile must grow longer
once it is long enough it may stand up and reach the moon

i wonder much more why brazil even bothered taking some useless djungle

Because they (and Peru) started a war with Chile and lost. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Portales detected
They didn't start a war against Chile, they allied so they could defend themselves. Also, it was because muh tariffs. Peru increased tariffs on salpeter so the eternal Anglo told Chile to conquer those provinces. Of course there was previously talks about taking those provinces (Portales doctrine) so the eternal Anglo made profit of this opportunity.

kek

Brazil's borders were too unaesthetic until they took a piece of Bolivia