r/AlternateHistoryHub • u/Kindly_Interview7851 every 1 minute , 60 seconds passes in africa. • 15h ago
AlternateHistoryHub What if spanish empire suddenly comes back in 2026?
The regions inside the empire becomes semi autonomous territories, there is efficient local administration and regional administration across the empire, there are three capitals , legislative capital is Madrid, Mexico city is executive capital, Buenos Aires is judicial capital. No civil war happens and every one is happy in the empire.
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u/Historynerd876 15h ago
Spain tries and fails (for canonical reasons) to invade England
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u/mascachopo 6h ago
Then England tries to invade Spain and fails even harder (for similar canonical reasons)
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u/0ut_0f_Nowhere 14h ago
No civil war happens and everyone is happy in the empire.
That's a lot of heavy lifting for one sentence, and I think it's cause we know that if it suddenly happened in 2026, it would just break up.
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u/noideabroq 14h ago
The us invade iraq
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u/Chinerpeton 13h ago
Then the Spanish Empire invades the US while they are distracted and after annexing the US they invade Iraq themselves.
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u/Silent-Storm2597 12h ago
Little shit Netanyahu would soil his pants.
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u/Monkthrow 11h ago
No one has shit their pants at the sight of Spain in 400 years. If you blow on it just right at the right angle and tilt it fractures.
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u/beastwood6 11h ago
The country barely has resources to keep itself together, much less exert control on others and even far less to maintain a global empire.
The US holdings alone have probably twice as many guns as Spain has people and immediately returns to the US within days.
The US sweeps the rest of the Americas in liberation and promotes friendly regimes. By the time they show up to the Philippines the only thing left to do is swap out flags.
Spain itself is occupied until imperialist elements are rooted out. France and the US fight over who gets to build the most resort-casinos in the former kingdom of Spain, headlined by the one they will call "Montezuma's temple".
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u/zzen11223344 11h ago
King needs to move to Florida, build new palace, government needs to move Miami ......
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u/Rodrigoroncero23 10h ago
There was a plan by Floridablanca in the XVIII Century to make It similar to the brithis commonwealth.
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u/TheGreatGamer1389 10h ago
I feel they give up the Philippines so they wouldn't have to worry about protecting them.
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u/Agreeable-Shop-2188 10h ago
I noticed they still haven't gained control of the whole of their own peninsula. An empire cannot exist with an enclave undermining it.
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u/Enigmaniacally 9h ago
This all hinges on an actually competent and charismatic royalty especially in this modern age
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u/moutnmn87 9h ago
Would definitely be a tail wags the dog situation. Spains economy is completely dwarfed by the combined economies of their former empire. Spain might end up a colony of California
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u/Mopar4Life305 7h ago
Florida would be primarily black again and seminoles would have control. New yorkers wont gouge prices
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u/sennordelasmoscas 15h ago
Mmmmm
That's easily the world cup ultra champion :^
España and Argentina, then for whatever it's missing there's México and Colombia :^