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re: How does Spain and Portugal manage to stay out of these world events? WW1-WW2 and all else
Posted on 4/16/25 at 7:20 am to BarberitosDawg
Posted on 4/16/25 at 7:20 am to BarberitosDawg
No power really wants the Iberian peninsula. Britain controls the only desirable part of it: Gibraltar.
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Posted on 4/16/25 at 7:34 am to BarberitosDawg
Easy to do when you have a pure tourism economy with no other natural resources.
Posted on 4/16/25 at 7:46 am to BarberitosDawg
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ow does Spain and Portugal manage to stay out of these world events? WW1-WW2 and all else
Spain and Portugal got their fill during the 15th and 16th centuries.
See South and Central America.
Posted on 4/16/25 at 8:00 am to BarberitosDawg
Cool. I'm heading to Portugal this summer.
Posted on 4/16/25 at 9:53 am to Penrod
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Spain had their civil war right before WW2. They were cooked.
Fun fact. My father in law fought in that war against Franco and was a POW. I didn’t have a lot of interactions with him and don’t know any details. I do know he hated the Catholic Church at least as an institution because of the war. Always got the feeling he was atheist/agnostic.
He died a few months ago at 106 years old. My wife is only 48 as he was pushing 60 when she was born. She and her brothers (twins 10 years older than her) took care of him until the end. They were a big part of his life but it was a more formal type of relationship. Not cold at all, nut not really warm and fuzzy. A decent man, not great and nothing bad. A father, not Ward Cleaver but nothing bad. He did have an interesting life I wish I knew more about.
Posted on 4/16/25 at 10:29 am to Dave Worth
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My father in law fought in that war against Franco and was a POW.
That’s wild! Have you read For Whom the Bell Tolls?
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