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That is certainly true. My thinking (in turn, also phrased inexactly) is that the turn towards France-Spain as an alliance is almost inevitable. Spain is going to be a decaying power, England/Britain an ascendant one. The Anglo-Portuguese link will be drawn ever tighter, too, especially as...

I think there'some confusion as to the scale of Ireland and the size of the Bay of Biscay. You could very conventiently place Ireland there, but it certainly wouldn't become a blockade to Dutch access to the Atlantic. It would instead become almost a defensive shield, turning the Bay into an...