13.03.2016 - 17:43
fixed for ya*
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13.03.2016 - 18:06
You can't call it a debate. There are a few "hypothesis", stated by a couple people, nothing else. It is globally accepted that he's from Genoa. For god's sake, there's even the hypothesis that Columbus were from Norway!! Why not stating that he's from norway then?
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13.03.2016 - 18:25
That will never happen... for good or for worse, but it won't ever happen. 110% sure. We don't trust each other, we don't feel the union, we feel the love for our own countries and the hate for some others too damn strongly.
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13.03.2016 - 19:14
We still gave an equal, if not bigger contribute than Spain to the World
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13.03.2016 - 20:03
You influenced a culture, we created a new country (Belguim / Netherland). We moved armies, you moved slaves. GG. Don't be so patriotic, at least you influenced more than Andorra, that's a win XD
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13.03.2016 - 20:14
technically, the only country you created were the Netherlands. Belgium was created in 1830 as an independent state. And the Portuguese Empire former territories are part of 50 countries today, and we created other countries that still exist today, I guess that's a valid point. At least we can proudly say we lasted more as a World power than you did, considering after the Spanish War of Succession, you got severely weakened and by 1803 you had almost no strenght, like Portugal :3
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13.03.2016 - 21:02
Ok, then take a look at how many countries did Spain visit. I won't count them... and I don't care how many of your countries are simply islands or you only conquered a city in each of those 50 countries. Yeah... sure... a "power"... aha... in which aspect? What was your "power" based on? Money? Army? Navy? Then why didn't you have a more significant role in history? Oh right... cause there were always true powers in charge... not Portugal. Come on... when did any country fear you or treat you as a power? I don't know what you understand by a "world power". For instance, Spain was a power from Carlos I to Felipe and not much more. After the Spanish Armada did such public embarasment, we were no one. That was a true world power, not what you consider to be a power.
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14.03.2016 - 07:51
After balkan flamewars, im proud to announce we just gave birth to iberian flamewars
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14.03.2016 - 08:29
portugal>catalonia m8 , oh and kosovo is spanish btww d
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14.03.2016 - 08:32
Agreed! (We're lucky that no actual proud catalonian is reading this, even if it is a jk )
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14.03.2016 - 09:24
Ancient Greeks were never feared nor did they dominate anyone. They weren't what you'd call a "world power". However, their contribution to history was perhaps greater than any other nation's, undoubtedly. Contribution to history doesn't only come from an iron fist. Portugal helped spread European culture far and wide, and similtaniously spread foreign cultural aspects to Europe. Portugal was the spiritual capital of exploration, and the Spanish were inspired by the Portuguese to start theirs.
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14.03.2016 - 09:37
What? I do not think Khal nor spartans agree with your words... they were quite feared. Sparta was a militar power meanwhile Athens was an intelectual and cultural power. Anyway, I didn't say that to be a power you need to be stronger than your neighbours, but to be respected at the very least and considered in international relationships and similar political stuff. Read again:
So... what was portugal's power based on? I do not mean to understimate the influence they might have had in bringing asian products but... is there anything else? Cause that doesn't make one a power or else Spain would be god for being responsible for bringing american products to Europe and european products to america. Actually, I feel like Portugal were quite closed minded. Just in case you didn't know, Columbus actually offered his project to the king of Portugal before heading to Spain. Guess what, Portugal rejected it since they were already working on going around Africa and felt like Columbus idea was not good enough. They lost a freaking huge opportunity of exploration, which Spain obviously accepted and took advantage of. Not so much of an spirite of exploration there, they were simply greedy... they had no lands, no army, nothing to achieve in Europe, so they centered their efforts in comercial routes. But, comparing the rute they found, around Africa, to the route Columbus found, America, the later one wins.
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14.03.2016 - 14:42
We were a world power between 1440's,with the discovery of Azores and the conquest of various african cities/Morocco (1470's) that controlled rich routes (I guess under your criteria we could base that superpower status based on Money, and until 1521's until the death of King Manuel I, 1415-1525/1540's can be considered the peak of the Portuguese Empire, when we were the european power at the frontline. Also, when you say no country feared us as a power, that's not entirely true, we allied the Congo Kingdom, because they feared us and in 1725-1750's we defeated several times the Persians and Marathans and achieved Naval superiority in the Indian Ocean...but then Britain came along. If you did not know, we did not conquer only cities, altough conquered cities were a vast majority, because the conquest of a city instantly meant the conquest of a 'reasonable' big territory around it (Goa can be an example and so can Bahrein and Qatar, which we conquered at some time). A bit out of debate here, did you know there were 3 Portuguese Kings of the Burma Kingdom of Pegu? (and two others I forgot the name), also we had some cities in Thailand. I know Portugal wasn't a big superpower like England for instance, but I think it is wrong to put both Portugal and Spain on unequal levels, or at least very unequal levels because both countries gave enourmous contributes and influenced immensely world history.
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14.03.2016 - 16:37
never,i kill you, From whole history,its Serbian and all people know it. We were defending whole Europe from ottomans o nthat lands.............
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14.03.2016 - 18:07
Okey, you're just repeating what I already knew: you had some comercial routes during a determined amount of time. Fine, that made you a bit wealthy, but nothing compared to other european true powers. For instance, England and Spain. How can you compare Congo to an european country....? XDDDDD come on, shame on you!! Of course a country with no real weapons feared you!! The persians were nothing at those years... and your naval superiority was only evident around under developed countries with no european presence. Good for you. I still think you're making a huge mistake when comparing what Spain once was to what Portugal once was. But whatever, if your nationalist pride will feel better, think what you like I'm still waiting to hear your definition for a "power".
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14.03.2016 - 18:25
He answered for me, @Raul
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14.03.2016 - 19:17
I already answered him, pls read my answer if you're so kind. Until next answer
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14.03.2016 - 19:17
I always knew that the forum needed a new plot twist!
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14.03.2016 - 19:30
Ima answer it tommorrow, the lil Portuguese needs sleep now
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14.03.2016 - 19:52
"In Syria, Germany and other major powers have provided all sides with weapons for years, even poison gas, while repeatedly rejecting peace negotiations unless Assad is eliminated, an impossible condition for any true efforts. The worst killer in the region, ISIS, has constantly exported oil (and valuable antique objects) via that friendly Western (#Berlin-AnkaraAxis2016) ally Turkey, now carrying out a merciless bombing campaign against left-wing Kurdish groups, far and away the most effective force in fighting ISIS. Main sources of ISIS weapons, it is clear, have been Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, close US-allies, who also use them to fight Saudi's chosen new foes, the Houthis, destroying much of Yemen in the process. They, in turn, were supplied for years by just those western countries which complain most loudly about ISIS cruelty. While the USA is the main supplier, Germany has also sold them arms worth billions. In February and March it sold huge amounts of ammo and spare parts for tanks and ground-air missile equipment. In April came the OK for 100 drones, radio equipment and tank replacement parts. Rifles dropped by Saudi planes over Aden to fight the Houthis were products of the famous firm Heckler & Koch, which is ably represented in the Bundestag by Volker Kauder, a recipient of its constant election contributions, and who is a main supporter of arms sales, especially from Heckler & Koch, as well as head of Merkel's party caucus in the Bundestag since 2005, a top position. Is a suspicion of hypocrisy fully misplaced?"
What is made up? And what is a democratically elected government? Is it made up that Europe contributed and supported the illegitimate and unconstitutional removal of a president and proceeded to install a pro-Western one? One filled with neo-nazis and neo fascists who venerate war time nazi collaborators and pogromists? One whose seven ministers were directly tied to fascist groups. Is this on par with European ideals? What does this say about the European parliament's stance against the Golden Dawn's MEP (the op)? Is this hypocritical enough for you? Do you hear in your news about the Western backed Ukranian government's arson attacks on the homes and offices of elected communist leaders, or the integration of the fascist sector into the national guard? Do you hear about the anti-semitism and white supremacism of the government's ultra-nationalists? Do you think EU and US had any grounds whatsoever to interfere and get involved in the politics of a closely related neighbor of Russia, who werent even a member of Nato? Under what pretext? Same applies to IMF and ECB.
Its not about the war, its about the illegal occupation under international law, of a European member state by a foreign NON European hostile country, practically amounting to illegal occupation of European Union territory ever since Cyprus became its member. Turkish illegal occupation of Northern Cyprus has never been recognized by anyone in the whole world as a sovereign state, except Turkey. What did the European institutions did to protect the territorial integrity of its fellow member state? Jack shit. Its never about the union, its always about the money. Turkey is a good business partner, who cares about values, laws and useless papers.
I used the words "pipelines", "interests", "corporations" and you concluded "hate greece"? Restart your logic.
First of all this is not a competition ( calling my government corrupted is not an insult but an undisputed fact hue) For me and also a correction, Germany broke the rules (herself imposed) in 2003, not 2008.
Damn well i will. The precise number will be 154 billion euros. You owe it, pay up. Speaking of...did you know that Germany, who now lectures and tortures Greece, is the single biggest debt defaulter of the 20th century? Kind of funny. Hehe. Famous German Professor Albrecht Ritschl of the LSE conducted a brilliant research on the matter. "Ritschl looked in detail at the financial assistance that was paid to Germany after the war under the Marshall Plan, in which the US gave $17 billion - around $160 billion in today's values - in economic support to help rebuild European economies. He showed that while the transfers were tiny, the cancellation of debts was worth as much as four times the country's entire economic output in 1950 and laid the foundation for Germany's fast post-war recovery He showed how this strategy was fuelled by a desire of the United States to avoid the mistakes made by the European Allies after World War I. The reparations imposed on Germany under the Treaty of Versailles, which had required Germany to pay 132 billion gold marks ($33 billion), contributed to a plunge in the German currency and hyperinflation and brought economic misery to German households. The US intervened to end the crisis and repackage the reparations. It drew up a new reparations plan that staggered the payments and lent Germany 800 million marks. This stabilised the currency but led to the US indirectly funding Germany's reparations to Europe. Released from its financial burden, the German economy then resurged strongly. However, after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the US demanded full repayment of its loans to Germany. Ritschl showed that austerity policies imposed on Germany pushed it into the Great Depression and sovereign debt default. The German government cut state spending, wages and unemployment pay. Unemployment rose to 6 million. Ultimately this severe depression paved the way for the rise of the Nazis. Although debt relief under the Marshall Plan was only intended to be provisional until the reunification of Germany, the debt relief was not in fact cancelled when unification occurred in 1990. According to Ritschl's estimates, Germany's World War II debts nearly equalled its gross domestic product (total amount of economic output) for 1938, the last pre-war year. In a telling comparison Ritschl showed that the debts racked up by the struggling Eurozone economies - Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain - were equal in size to Germany's current gross domestic product. In other words, debt cancellation for the Eurozone would be equivalent to the debts that were cancelled by the Allies after World War II. Famous French proffesor Thomas Piketty seems to agree aswell "after the war ended in 1945, Germany's debt amounted to over 200% of its GDP. Ten years later, little of that remained: public debt was less than 20% of GDP. Around the same time, France managed a similarly artful turnaround. We never would have managed this unbelievably fast reduction in debt through the fiscal discipline that we today recommend to Greece… Think about the London Debt Agreement of 1953, where 60% of German foreign debt was cancelled and its internal debts were restructured." p.s. loled at this tho, hue "you still didnt pay any war reperations to persia, you asshole."
Ok now its getting to the point where your ignorance and motivational reasoning is getting on my nerves. You made an accusation, back it up with facts or gtfo. I on the other hand, believe thats its just the result of a combination of reasons including -Big European powers meddling with Middle Eastern politics (sending money and guns to terrorist organizations in Syria and not only, supporting Saudi, Turkey and branches of al qaida in Syria, deposing Gadafi who kept the immigrant routes under control and so on, so on) -preaching a utopian liberal democratic heaven open to foreigners and Germany openly inviting refugees and promising entry and jobs (which later denied) -denying entry into Central and NorthWestern Europe to refugeesa nd immigrants, keeping them landlocked in Greece and sending back to Greece the ones who pass through ( a practice thats been taking place many years in my country, it didnt just magically started now, but how would you know living in your Prussian bubble) -countries randomly closing their borders and building walls -EU threatening to kick Greece out of Shengen if it doesnt make the refugges "dissapear" while letting Turkey blackmail her and illegally send thousands of refugees everyday, a large percentage of whom die before they even reach Greece -EU not providing adequate supplies, personel, funds to Greece and Italy, for short term problem handling -EU not taking the necessary decisions as a unified entity regarding policy and a long term (or even short term) solution to the problem
Close the borders and then what? Send them back to die? Or keep them in, trapped, to die of starvation, thirst, disease, cold? What exactly do you suggest? But, but, but you implied a moral high ground, but what about this
So, is this my solution, or yours? Which is it, speak up. Apperantly, Human Rights Watch (HRW) disagrees with you, it said the Greece-Macedonia border closure and Austria's controversial decision to impose a daily cap on asylum applications showed the EU's "utter failure" to respond to the crisis. https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/03/01/eu/balkans/greece-border-curbs-threaten-rights
A few thousand? Why do you open your mouth if you know nothing of the subject, Why? If they are only a "few thousand" why did the EU council gathered to discuss and decided for the relief (refugee relocation) of the most heavily burdened countries, Greece and Italy? Every refugee coming to the North is passing from Greece first and only if he is lucky, doees he get to continue his travels to the North. More than two millions passed through Greece the last year and around a million is spread around. Our islands always have between 5000-50000 at all times, our ports are blocked and tourists are mass cancelling their reservations. WHAT MESS DID YOU CLEAN? How do you expect we pay our debts, if our main source of income, tourism, gets wrecked because you wanted cheap labour force for your industrial corporations? Own up to your mistakes and assume your responsibilities spineless cowards. Specifically this
im gonna remember this as there are speculations for as much as 10 million more "refugees". Watch and see, one year from now im going to dig up for this quote. Meanwhile, in USA
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14.03.2016 - 20:29
If you just modify your first sentence for which this guy or this guy among others, might disagree, youll get my upvote and at the same time be historically accurate As for the Spain vs Portugal ill stay away just like i do with the Serbia vs Croatia..keep it up!
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14.03.2016 - 20:32
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15.03.2016 - 12:28
came just to upvote khal !
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15.03.2016 - 13:28
I think the only contribution portugal gavr to the world is cristiano ronaldo.
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15.03.2016 - 14:37
Then you're more ignorant than ever imaginable.
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15.03.2016 - 14:54
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15.03.2016 - 16:44
Why does it matter what ethnicity you have, what religion you believe in, manners of your culture or anything more? Isn't it the actions of individuals which should count? I find this racewar becoming pretty boring to be honest. Its all people talk about? Its pretty sickening. I mean Greece and Turkey are much alike, maybe they have a different religion, but they have the same daily things, both have a great history, and both are nice countries for tourism and to probably live in, even when greece has debts, if it can overcome the crisis every country has been effected by. There is no need to pull up the racecard everytime.
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15.03.2016 - 17:40
Turkish history 101 Rape, murders, torture. more rape,genocide, more rape, kidnapping of white children, raping children.................and so on and so on, such a great history and culture that is. Same goes for arabs and all muslims pretty much, also to think all humans as equal is idiotic, we may disagree on who is superior or inferior but its evident we arent equal.
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15.03.2016 - 20:13
I think you shouldn't generelize too much about such big topic... muslims have brought some scientific knowledge to Europe as well, not only wars and rapes. Let's try to be fair at least
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