Why is Portugal so shit?

Why is Portugal so shit?
by every metric they are below western standards and being surpassed by former communist countries, Spain for example that had to rebuild from a war is much much better

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Portugal is no more than an appendage of Spain. It was due to a comedy errors that this tragic mistake continues to exist.

>board about history
>topic why country evolved badly while others in worse conditiondid better
>over 25 years ago
>/pol/

During Utrech peace talk a secret agreement was reached between English and French plenipotentiaries, in which was arranged that Portugal must always be worse than Spain in any international measurement.

Country was barely kept afloat with the colonies, then the enlightened post-fascism government decided they weren't worth holding. On top of that, the germans paid them to shut down most of their industry and exist purely as a tourist attraction, only that turned out not to be profitable enough and then the german money either ran out or was pocketed by the enlightened government. Every economist in the country knew things would go to shit if they accepted the terms to enter the EU but they still went ahead and did it becauses dude free money.

I browsed /pol/ for 3 years, i know a /pol/thread when i see it

Go back to /pol/ ,retard

Portugal was one of the fastest growing countries of the last century. It was defeating the independentists in Africa before the 25th of April, and at the same time resisting Soviet and American imperialism. Portugal performed really well for the situation it was in.

Fuck you OP
t. Alberto Barbossa

>decided they weren't worth holding.
Didn't they revolt and tell them to fuck off.

>Built a colonial Empire
>Explored half the world
>Defeated several power bigger then it
>Managed to hold its own in a massive Over seas conflict with several frounts
>Calls it shit
You must be a butthurt froggie because some Alberto Barbosa cucked

The tone doesn't matter, the guy made a thread with a valid and interesting question to discuss. Stop being an elitist fuck nugget because he worded it badly.

how did the germans pay them money to shut down their industry

>wait a while
>its a poor shithole with a tiny shrinking aging population that is mired in debt and is generally irrelevant
wow what a success

>Muh small population what a faliure
Back to /pol/with you

It's not shit, it just lagged behind the rest of western europe after the industrial revolution due to cultural diferences and perifery
It also doesn't help the fact that it lacks natural resources
Even so, calling "shit" is retarded, it's still a developed country and a far better place to live than most of Europe

>wow a shrinking and aging population is a bad thing
if this was something that only /pol/ believed then you'd have to lock up a huge part of the world in it, its hardly an extremist view

The natives revolted and wanted independence, yes. It wasn't all of them, though. In Bissau Guinea, for example, there were plenty of natives fighting for Portugal because they were minorities and knew what would happen to them when they became independant. When the orders came from Portugal for them to lay down their weapons, everyone fighting against independence was executed and civil war started soon after.

Were are you from you piece of shit?
Let’s see if your country is better than mine
You must probably be an American or a Brownzilian to be able to spit so much shit out of your mouth

the Republic was a massonic coup
the 25th April was communist coup

The revolts started way before then. Discontentment over the long war was one factor in turning the general portuguese population against the establishment. At least enough to condone the military coup and fresh elections.

>this is what PS actually believes

the revolt happened because the government was going to start paying conscripts the same as officers and that made the officers butthurt

>I browsed /pol/ for three years
Funny.There's no alberto barbarossa and moor shitflinging here.You're seeing things

Salazar distrusted even basic education for fear of communist infiltration.
The communists said fuck it and infiltrated the army instead

gefira.org/en/2016/11/19/high-treason-how-the-euro-destroyed-the-economies-of-southern-europe-with-the-complacency-of-their-ruling-classes/

The military coup happened primarily because friends of the regime (relatives of powerful people) never saw combat duty and still received way better boons in the military, and was led by the low ranking officers, many of which were the leaders of the guerrillas that were burdened with fighting the black dissenters in the colonies.

what's the difference?

Congratulations, you're the first tripfag I've had to filter after 6 years of Veeky Forums

They failed to industrialize because Salazar was incredibly paranoid of outside influences, not exclusive to communism. His regime should have ended in the early-mid 50's. It was a joke that it was continued to go on as long as it did.

also
index.hu/english/2017/10/05/trump_might_be_right_about_the_germans/

Why?
Itt username, not tripfag