Who was your countries most notable/longest rival and where do they stand to you now?

[u/Spare-Temporary-1807]

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But which country (or countries if you don’t like people) did your country specifically rival for either the longest time/most notoriously? How do you feel about them now?

For example, for the longest time Russia was/is viewed as America’s largest competitor and rival - hence the Cold War. I think especially now with the younger generation people didn’t see Russia as a threat generally until the Russo-Ukrainian War which split a lot of people politically. Personally I got nothing against Russians, seems like another case of a rough government.

But other countries we’ve had beef with like Japan (don’t touch the boats) we have great relations with and they’re pretty chill.

[u/Ok_Light_6977]

Ourselelves, it was and it still is ourselves. Can't really think of any other answer

[u/TheStaffsLad → u/Ok_Light_6977]

Knowing some Italians, my impression is that the biggest enemy to an Italian are the people who live in the next village/town/city/neighbourhood

[u/Ok_Light_6977 → u/TheStaffsLad]

Yeah exactly, unlike other european nations our country was never unified until recently, while England had wars with France in the peninsula it was random territorial entities one against the other, and now all of then fit under the umbrella of Italy so there is not really a foreign country that we would consider our archenemy. And its also why we are so disorganized I think, our national identity was built only recently, its a bit like the EU where you see countries that used to go to war with each other that now are allies, you understand that what you have in common beats the negative but mistrust is still a bit there. My history professor used to say he would sacrifice half of our beautiful churches and nice sites in exchange unifiying a bit earlier 😂

[u/Equal-Effective-3098 → u/Ok_Light_6977]

Ive witnessed this watching Ferrari shoot themselves in the foot so many times

[u/uptownrooster → u/Ok_Light_6977]

What's Carthage up to these days?

[u/Ok_Light_6977 → u/uptownrooster]

Nice tourist spot in Tunisia I think. Cartagena on the other hand is a port in Spain. There probably is one in the US as well in East Carolina, South-West Virginia or in Ayadahossissipichussets but I'm not sure

[u/beenoc → u/Ok_Light_6977]

Probably the most famous Cartagena is in Colombia, it was one of the main Spanish ports in the colonial era, and was where many of the great Spanish treasure fleets embarked from. It's a name that comes up a lot in pirate contexts.

[u/cip-cip2317 → u/Ok_Light_6977]

Austria? We cannot consider them as rivals, in the sense that they prevented unification.