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also, unironically, kicking out our jews, who, along side jews from Spain and other countries, went to the Netherlands (not all but a good number) and contributed to the maritime development of the Dutch and their banking system which contributed to the Dutch eventually overtaking us.
And sure, now the Dutch are also irrelevant shitters like us in the world stage but at least their way wealthier and their country is more developed.
>Expulsion of the Jews in 1497, in a 1917 watercolour by Alfredo Roque Gameiro