Why didn't Brazil ever try to unify all of South America as their own manifest destiny?
Why didn't Brazil ever try to unify all of South America as their own manifest destiny?
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Have you seen the average Braziilian? They are literally a primate.
How are primates able to govern such a large country?
>Brazil
>Govern
>Govern
Brazil is a borderline IRL Fallout game. Only with trannies and monkeymen instead of ghouls and mutants
All the good land in a SA country is in it's core, be it mineral resources in Chilean Deserts, giant swathes of temperate, arable land in Argentina or the plains in Brazil's interior(and fuckloads of nice Mahogany), more or less every border in SA is some natural feature like the aformentioned deserts, mountains and plateaus or the Amazon, the borders have been worked out through centuaries of bloody war with improved technology compared to europe before, and add the fact that the Latin Cultures there produced very corrupt systems and the militaries were rotted to the core so there was no chance after Bolivar to expand beyond the reasonable limits of one's borders, see Argentina and Chile, and no navies wouldn't work for the Hues because the east coast of brazil is a fucking sheer clifface.
There are ghouls and mutants too, don't you worry anon
they aren't
>t.brazillian
The average Brazilian didn't rule the country in the 19th century.
The average brazilian is a R1b assimilator chad, basically a modern day Yamnaya/Corded Ware.
because brazilians don't care about their neighbors
for example, english is a more spoken language even though spanish is much easier to learn
Because people literally don't need to learn Spanish to communicate with them you retard
Brazil is already the size of the continuous US and the border/frontier regions were (and in many parts still are) dense and untamed wilderness that you would need to fully settle and develop first to have the base for the logistics
Even if the manage to conquer all they would need to deal with constant revolts from other people on the same tech level and who centers of power and population are distant from the brazilian centers of power and population
And this is without mentioning how much it would cost in terms of resources and soldiers...
Not enough governing capacity
>expand administration
>expand administration again
>expand administration a third time
>expand administration a fourth time
>expand administration a fifth time
>expand administration a sixth time
>admin ideas
>expand administration a 7th time, hey this is getting kind of expensive now
>expand administration an 8th time
>admin tech 8
>expand administration a 9th time
>expand administration a 10th time
>expand administration an 11th time, hey you're finally to 700 governing cap
>finish admin ideas
>you get to have fun again
There's the Andes Mountains and the Amazon Forest to act as natural barriers. Also, why make the same stupid mistakes of the old continent?
Real life is not a Paradox game
>Why didn't (X country that was in no way in the same situation or context as the US) do (Y thing the US could only do in it's specific context)
Americans are a disease
its is already hell on earth
now imagine if we also had hispanohablantes
it is* fuck
>invade neighbors
>inherit all their problems such as destitute population, drug cartels, and armed guerillas hiding in the jungles and mountains
I think Brazil has enough issues without piling more on top.
We don't need more land and favelados/bureaucrats leeching productive people.
When they showed up, no one understood what the fuck they were saying, and it sounded like they had a cold.
The Pope of the time gave Western S.A. to the Spanish and the Eastern part to the Portuguese.
>brazil's populations were distant from each other
why did brazil stay one nation when the ex-spanish colonies broke apart?
Unironically, the Empire.
The monarchy stayed in power long enough and Dom Pedro II was so effective it pretty much created the basis of a unified Brazilian identity.
This. Spanish colonies were elongated down the Pacific Coast, split up by mountains, ruled solely for Spanish exploitation, had piss poor revolutionaries (due to lack of a large middle class - not many lawyers and educated merchants. Bolivar could not hold together his domain in his own lifetime as an example), entirely different cultures and climates (Mexico vs Argentina), etc. Brazil had a lot of these same problems, difference was the monarchy relocated there during the Napoleonic Wars and remained there to declare independence from Portugal once it became apparent that the colony was heading that way. The Pedros reigned for 67 years from 1822-1889. Immediately went to shit once the last of their dynasty got coup’d and Brazileans still see them as their best leaders. Every other colony descended into near anarchy of civil wars and ephemeral dictators. Brazil should have been a model for decolonization during the 20th century but for some reason everyone thought Africa would become a bunch of USAs instead of Latin America. Probably because of the 2 World Wars otherwise Africa would have turned out so much better.
Spanish colonies have a colonial legacy greater than rest of colonial provinces from other colonial powers. You talk as if all the urban, infrastructures, architectonic and artistic legacy left by Spanish didn't existed. Also, agriculture already surprassed mining as a source of income in the bulk of viceroyalties for the eighteenth century.
Bolivar himself came from a family that became rich through the trade of coffee and especially cocoa maintained by his family with the Royal Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas.
The Argentine economy from the 17th century until 20th century was largely based on surplus meat from the gauchos cattle of the Pampa plains..
Too brown
simply because Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish arent understandable
Read about the Paraguay war, Argentina and Brasil seazed a lot of land after that conflict, also both countries had claims over Uruguay territory back in the day, so the the diplomatic solution was to make it an independant country