The Political Hawk

In the above Image on the left is a portrait of Vasco Da Gama, one of the greatest explorers of all time and representing Portugal's golden age, when they were a great power. Where as on the right is a picture of a women homeless, jobless and drowned in deep poverty, representing the Portugal today. Lets now explore how a great nation has fallen from such grace and what it has become in the present world. Perhaps one the first developed nations (like Greece) to be destroyed by capitalism. It was not a much of a surprise that the country did not had any immediate effect on it after the second world war. Since the Estado Novo regime led by Salazar was well rooted in the country. I think the historians usually do not highlight this much but the Indian invasion of Goa was the turning point in Portugal's history as it led to the Portuguese colonial wars and later the "Carnation Revaluation". Impact of Goa's Invasion After 1961 when India invaded Goa, libera...

In the final stages of the second world war, when the United State of America humbled the Japanese by bombing Nagasaki and Hiroshima with the atomic bomb. The nation was defeated and entered an abyss. At that time almost every scholar or intellectual predicted that Japan's future is in a massive doubt. However against all odds the country rapidly broke the chains of depression and defeat. It was just in the 1970's Japan was back as a power house, this time as an economic power house. In the 1970's the nation flourished as they kept on embracing capitalism. In the mid of the 1980's Japan had already surpassed the likes of United Kingdom and France. As Japan became the second largest economy in the world and the leader of the the electronic industry. Those pundits who once predicted the country has no future, now they were claiming the land of the rising sun will even surpass the United Sate's economy. Technology triumphed in Japan, Tokyo became the world capital...