>polity that has never existed for 1000+ years of European history>destroys Europe in only 195 years of existenceWhat were they thinking when they summoned it and why
>>18009976huh?
Containment country
>>18009988it's an artificial country cut out from France and the Netherlands and it's the seat of the whore of Babylon the EU
>>18009998>it's an artificial country cut out from France and the NetherlandsNo it's not.
>>18010015it so obviously is that it's likely to dissolve in the next century and good riddance
>>18010038No, Belgium was not created out of a bit of france and a bit of the netherlands. Don't be a redditor.
>>18009976Belgium didn’t destroy Europe. The powers who created Belgium did.
Belgium didn't destroy europe, it's the catholic part of the netherlands, always been.Actually, Europe destroyed Belgium, not the other way round.
DAN MAAR DE LUCHT - oh wacht verkeerde Jan
Unlike Germany, Belgium wasn’t built around a single linguistic identity, it was glued together by great-power treaty.
This confuses and angers anti-liberty cunts on /his/
>>18010152France neither had very little linguistic unityAnd the unity of Germany through Bismarck was not easy either
>>18009998when, how, and by whom
>>18009976Lotharingia Inferior
>>18010373true it's actually a relic of lotharingia
>>180103231830
>>18009976The bravest gauls were the Belgiae according to Napoléon. The francs came from our retardo flemish regions as well.We are important, ok?t.belgian flag
>>18010153The only reason it exists is because the Dutch couldn't take them back from the Spanish in the 80 years war and because they were too catholics they didn't rebel as much>>18010632Larp
>>18009976it's Lotharingia. the revenge of the middle child
>>18009976>>18009998Just because it's the seat of the EU doesn't mean it control it.It was just a convenient geographical location between Germany, France and Britain.
>>18009976Wasn’t Belgium basically just the Austrian Hapsburg lowlands, but granted independence?
>>18010592now answer the rest
>>18010153>a collection of unrelated duchies that formed the southern end of the low countries is the same as the modern belgian state
>>18011174yes?same way the collection of westphalian treaty microstates is now germany
>>18009976>>polity that has never existed for 1000+ years of European history>>destroys Europe in only 195 years of existence>What were they thinking when they summoned it and why
>>18011300Kek
>>18010979The Treaty of London
Belgium is important, it is the place of European reconciliation between the Roman world and the Germanic world, the birthplace of the Franks who tried to do exactly just that.Notice that the "Belgium doesn't exist" meme is pushed hard by the perfidious English who try hard to divide Europe for centuries for their profit.
>>18009998No, it's literally the successor to the Austrian Netherlands, with a distinct religious and linguistic identity from both France and Holland
>>18011917Walloons are indistinguishable from the French and Flemings are indistinguishable from the Dutch (or atleast from Dutch Catholics).
>>18012265are you even European? because that's not how it works here. French and Wallons are quite different. Belgium is completely different from France (Federal country vs Centralized country)
>>18012300I am European, but unlike Belgium my country is a real country with its own language.>Belgium is completely different from FranceYes because the other half speaks Dutch...
>>18012300>French and Wallons are quite differentnaht. Euroid
Belgian beer is the best I've tasted. But the country doesn't really have a reason to exist, much like Canada with the English and French.
>>18009998You'd think if they were artificial they would have surrendered to the first German that crossed their borer, the first time.
>>18011174But enough about Switzerland
>>18009976>mindbreaks ethnonationalists monochrome worldviewI think for that reason alone they are worthy of existence.
>>18011343...so 9 years after belgian independence, belgium was created. got itdumbass
>>18010669>the only reason it exists is a perfectly valid reason that validates its existenceOk
>>18009998get droned hivdog
>>18009976The Brits wanted it around to be an intentionally destabilizing element on the continent that could be used to unleash chaos if they felt that either Germany or France was a potential threat to their dominance of global trade and manufacture.
