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Precentor Dune
Overleveraged in what way(s), exactly?
As for overthrowing the CCP, that's probably unlikely to happen anytime soon, though in the long(er)-run, who knows, right? I mean, the events of 1989-1991 were not necessarily reasonably foreseeable to a lot of people beforehand.
And Yes, in the German case, I'm well-aware of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League
But that League occurred way before Germany's founding, unless of course you want to consider the Holy Roman Empire to likewise be Germany.
For Germany, are you talking about Hamburg here? Or about some other port? And Yeah, in the US case, cities such as Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Erie, Gary, Toledo, Milwaukee, and Chicago certainly qualify for this, as possibly does Seattle.
Here's a fun AHC for you: Which other realistic cases of countries building a giant port for themselves can you think of? I mean similar to Poland building Gdynia as a Baltic port for itself in the interwar years and to Russia building St. Petersburg as a Baltic port for itself during the reign...