Indeed. So don't call it a loan then.
it came to you in the form of a loan, at 4%, 5 years time. That's a fact.
On the contrary! They provide extra merchants and also monopoly opportunity. They are rich provinces and I certainly lost a lot of money from losing the provinces. Why would Austria profit less than Spain? We are the two largest traders in the world. What makes Spain profit more from them?
but you weren't gonna keep them.
So why mention those "Habsburg" ties over and over again? Obviously they mean zero to you as well.
Because Habsburg has always fascinated me.
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