i.e. Roman/Byzantine Empire, German Empire, British Empire...
Ill start with the one my country used to be:
Big potential but fell due to big farmers controlling politics which led to instability and conflicting interests in the government
ITT: Thoughts on fallen empires
Mason Scott
Jaxson Roberts
American empire
Ian Bell
Read the title of the thread, specifically the "thoughts" part.
Henry Campbell
just posting an example
Logan Martin
I would say the doom of Brazil came in the form of trying to emulate European and American tendencies even when our reality in fact was quite different. This happened many times and still does today.
We switch systems on political fashions and have no organic evolution and structure for our institutions. We're like those "democracies" in the middle east.
Benjamin Morgan
alright, that's understandable
John Stewart
What do you mean by tendencies?
Eli Sanders
we gained independence merely because our economy was stifled, there was no political reason for it and we were the only ones in SA not to fight for it. We then became a republic and discarded our only good leader yet because our intellectual class, an ultra privileged few, couldn't stop sucking French cock. Then we tried all kinds of political systems despite the fact our economy depended on a small area that was bound to control the country. Eventually we gain some sort of development despite any political project and then, wow look at that, what's best to emulate than fascism. It makes sense I swear.
There is no major public economic investment that showed a coherent vision. Our fist railroad was to connect the capital to a luxury escape for the well off. Our first road was exactly the same. The dictatorship "gave" us the Transamazonica and other gigantic North Korean projects. Our rubber boom economy only lasted enough to build luxurious palaces in the middle of the jungle that were and still are disconnected from any real economic development.
Wyatt Price
>we gained independence merely because our economy was stifled,there was no political reason
We gained our independence because we wanted to be on equal grounds as portugal on our (short lived) united kingdom but they refused.
>we were the only ones in SA not to fight for it
David Gutierrez
The Brazilian Empire was destined to fail because it became independent of the Portuguese Empire, and the Portuguese Empire was destined to fail to separate itself from the Spanish Empire. In the same way it was destined to fail the Empire of Mexico.
It is true that not all were roses under the Spaniards, but they were a great example of Roman continuation, much more than the English Empire and the rest of "empires" that was imperialism for imperialism, and not for carrying civilization.
On both sides of the ocean, Hispanics are brothers.