AHC: Iberia-wank in America

The most direct cause of the decline of the Spanish Crown's power is the conquest of the country by Napoleon and the attempted replacement of the Bourbon with the Bonapartes; the criollos sided with the Bonapartes, while the Peninsulares stuck with the Bourbon. Furthermore, the expansion of historically English colonies into the west would be limited by a PoD that eliminates the Peninsular War, since Napoleon wouldn't have been able to sell Louisiana after nicking it off the Spanish.
 
And you were pretty damn condescending about it.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be condescending towards you; it just struck me as odd is all. The part about high school knowledge was just meant to point out how common the view was, I didn't mean anything by it. I realize I came across as condescending and I apologize.

Your AHC/WI is interesting, though; I was mostly confused by the idea that the extent of New Spain wasn't enough and wondering if you were aware of its extent in the first place. Horrible regime aside it would be interesting to see what a Spanish-Portuguese dominated America would look like.
 
Umm, Iberia was totally wanked IOTL. They even had substantial posessions in North America. There was just no reason for them to take the parts the British and French did.

I guess you could have them completely dominate the Caribbean, because that is what they'd actually care about. This means you'd need to have Spain and Portugal do better at home, so they could beat the British and French abroad.
 
Wank isn't a throwaway phrase that equates to ASB.

Exactly- it seems to me that some people (including some very distinguished members) are misinterpreting the term


The term “wank” describes a certain style of timelines and scenarios. In the original version of it, a single country is always successful, steadily expands, and generally does way better than is plausible. Later, the term was expanded to anything that can have success (nations, group persons, etc.) or even every tool that can be used to have success (like certain technologies); currently the meaning can be watered down to mean anything down to “has more success than IOTL”.
 
Probably the easiest way is to avoid Spain coming under the Habsburgs. If Miguel da Paz survives, one could have an Iberian Union without having to worry about constant wars to defend the Burgundian Inheritance from the French and later from the Protestants in the Netherlands, or Austria from the Turks. In addition, the inheritance of Milan never comes and Navarre might remain a buffer between France and Castile for a while longer. This could give the Iberian kingdoms the ability to focus almost solely on overseas expansion.
 
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