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There is indeed. However, it's is mostly between other kind of extreme right-wing types, and especially in the current environment it is always under the wing of another group, currently usually being associated with supporters of former president Bolsonaro. A actual descendant of Dom Pedro II...

Now, that's ominous. Since Konstantinos is meant to be based in a better version of Leopold II, the foreshadowing is disturbing.

I assume you are talking about Uruguay, isn't? Is that evidence of expansionism or of a willingness of like-minded regimes to protect each other from the will of the people? It wouldn't have been even war, frankly, but a military coup supported by Brazilian forces in an extremely specific...

Er... how do you define willingness? Because the existence of military plans or the fact that some idiot at the top (Janio Quadros) imagined that it could happen doesn't mean it was likely or that the Brazilian Elites were willing to bet everything in a military invasion for a mostly unlivable...

That sounds... omnious, even though i'm glad that he is clearly a better person right from the outset.

Same here. It's a level of detail and love for the story unseen even in this site, one that does have dozens of really good ATLs. Really appreciated these past updates, and I wouldn't mind myself a few more, even though I understand folks who want the story to go forward, I feel it has been a...

This. Joachim Fest book about Speer and his knowledge of Nazi policies pretty much rip across the argument that he didn't know much about the crimes happening in Europe. Not only he knew, but he was a key figure in that enourmous tragedy. It was a travesty of justice that he was allowed to die...

Holy shit. Yes!!

Never even heard of that trophy, and it's a club competition. I guess the Olympics would have a lot more credibility to be considered a worldwide title than a competition that is pretty much forgotten nowadays, i believe that Great Britain actually won three olympic medals in the early XX...

Holy shit. This is the shit we are talking about. The update is taking quite a long time, but it will surely be a blast.

The Secession was not federally recognized. Indeed, in U.S law, it was a completely illegal act. The ideal solution would be a radical Reconstruction that broke the back of the planter's class and made some proper land reform to benefit the poorer whites and former slaves. Probably the lion...

That's just factually wrong. If you compare the Imperial government with the Old Republic, them, sure, it did have a lot of advantages, especially the kind of stable internal politics that helps with development, but aside from that, every single advantage that the Empire had was eventually...

Oh, i did not say you were, i didn't even completely read this thread. However, there are very common misconceptions that make the Brazilian Empire appear to be something it was not, and it was not a good place to live in, even though it had some points where you can favorably compare it against...

This. And i add, for sake of completing it, that the monarchy is highly overrated and mythologized by it's adepts in a way that actually butchers actual historical record and whitewashes a lot of the bad things because the Republic that followed it was quite a bit worse in it's first 40 years of...

We can have faith, i guess. But, yes, i do actually believe it will.