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Hello everyone. Today, I decided to leave seat filled with popcorn and actually make something constructive regarding the current situation between the 4 countries involved (Portugal, Spain, Brazil and USA). As we know, war just started and surely there's a lot of propaganda flying out from both sides. However, I'm going to take Spain and the United States out of equation and clarify exactly, point to point, the relationship between Portugal and Brazil and its history. Keep in mind, however, this text DOES come from an IRL portuguese, so it will probably be biased towards Portugal. Possibly.
Portugal and Brazil started this game with an extremely rocky relationship, due to, mostly, having the Portuguese region of Azores occupied by Brazil, not for 3 months, as some say, but (at the very least) 5. And in fact, this is such a major issue it affected Portuguese-Brazilian relationships back then and it still affects NOW. However, it should be kept in mind that most of the harm made on the two countries' relations can be blamed on one person:
_Zyzz_ aka Lukas Pim. He was, without a shadow of a doubt, the most influential player of the portuguese-speaking community in this game... but not in a good way. He was the President of Brazil at the time this country occupied Azores, and after a very long time, he was completely against Portugal having it back, but for now I'll just leave him there. Back to the nation-states, how did Portugal exactly react? By joining Brazil's alliance ALPHA.
One may wonder why did Portugal make this decision, but most likely it was because of Lithuania and especially
iPSiArt who was pretty much responsible for making Portugal a relatively important country. So anyway, Portugal for the next months applied realism, and totally had to let Brazil keep Azores for several months until it eventually became a big issue in ALPHA, and despite LukasPim's threat to wipe Portugal off the map during the meeting, the region was given back to Portugal. And so, apparently, Brazil and Portugal were going to be on good terms from now on.
So did Portugal and Brazil formed a good relationship being allies? Well... no. Portugal and Brazil were like oil and water. Despite both Government being cooperative, the Portuguese really disliked Brazil. In fact, when Portugal declared war on Spain, Spain declared war on Brazil, and Portugal had to help Brazil against Spain, a lot of citizens preferred to be at war with Brazil rather than Spain. I know of it, because I was the Portuguese CP back then. But anyway, Brazil also helped Portugal fighting off the US during the Portuguese-American War where Ireland was involved in it too, however, something disrupted the Lusophone alliance. And it was...
_Zyzz_ again. He somehow became CP of Brazil again and put a law in the Congress to declare war on Portugal. Apparently there was a major civil issue going on in Brazil, to which the Portuguese were ignorant of. A lot of the portuguese saw it as a provocation and demanded war to be declared, and pressured the Portuguese CP back then 
TarnakPT to do so, which he did.
At the beginning, LukasPim's provocation was the reason for the war, but once
ricardolin was elected (ironically he is now the CP... of Canada), the reason was now revenge for Azores. And, so, many months passed, Brazil broke 2 or 3 NAP's with Portugal (I'm not sure of the amount of times the Brazilian Government broke it actually) and the war is still on to this day. Why? Brazilians say for the bonus of North of Brazil, Portuguese say revenge for Azores, and some oldies say for LukasPim. And in reality, it's a bit of all, but at the same time, none of those reasons are the main reason. The main reason as to why Portugal is still fighting Brazil is because Portugal is stuck. There is no other country Portugal could be fighting at the moment, and so, Brazil is preferred, because it became Portugal's natural enemy throughout the course of this game.
As for Brazil joining the AP and asking for help, can they be blamed? Well, no! Portugal did the exact same thing. The only difference is Portugal actually accepted having its most valuable reason partly occupied, and in trade, it would get... nothing, and Brazil in this case is much more inflexible. However, it should be kept in mind, back when Brazil was above Portugal, Brazil was still receptive enough to negotiate; and now that Portugal is above Brazil, the Portuguese Government outright refuses to negotiate.
My two cents on the issue,
Mark Stray
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