it seems like loans had a big impact on many ailed states' politics in the 1800s
-austria-hungary was formed because of inability to deal with mounting loans from multiple lost wars, thus turning to the hungarian aristocracy (theres more to this but this was a primary motivation)
also financiers would not tolerate the neoabsolutist period, producing the quote "no constitution, no money"
-what i already said about the ottomans: https://cohost.org/Mightfo/post/5736354-gamers-be-reading-ab
-spain had huge economic problems and their reactionary absolutist monarch prior to the carlist wars had defaulted on loans. thus, a huge advantage the liberals had in the first carlist war was that british and french financiers saw them as someone who wouldn't default on loans- thus the liberals received both way more loans than the carlists and direct military support from britain and france(multiple reasons for this, but the interest of financiers supposedly factors in)
also i am 1800s-spain-brained lately. i knew very little about most eras of spain until recently, so learning about it in a context i generally know a lot about(the 1800s) has been fascinating. kinda feeling an austria-level fixation on it building.
also, just learning about various subjects in history reinforces interests in other subjects that maybe did not seem interesting.. suddenly "wait, what got in the way of italian industrialization" becomes interesting as i compare and contrast factors compared to other countries i know about. spanish political instability becomes more interesting because of how it builds on what i already understand about the political situations in austria/france/germany/russia across the 1800s, etc.
anyway so thats been my brain basically this whole week