Hello Yuropoors.
I was pondering the hilarious, artificial nation that is Belgium a little while ago, but I reached an impasse.
In the petty game of Wallonia vs Flanders, which side should a humble burger take?
Give me your best pitch.
Redoing this thread b/c Europe was asleep the first go around
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Jordan Bell
Walloonies think they are supérieur due to their language, and because of their earlier industrialisation. But unfortunately they are now poorer than the Flemish. This causes strife. Best solution in a bad marriage would be divorce.
Matthew Bell
and who goes where?
does flanders merge with Netherlands and wallonia with france? would the regions and other countries support it?
and i mean, that's just cultural rivalry, right? like there's no chance of it happening and the country splitting like Czechia/Slovakia.
Grayson Parker
It can't really split because it's the power centre of the EU. Would set crazy example. The Flemish can't join the Dutch. The Dutch are mostly protestant and the Flemish almost totally Catholic. There are also other cultural differences. Bottom line: there is no real solution. A Swiss model would work probably, but that is just too democratic (read: unpredictable) for most countries. Think Brexit or Catalan independence.
Jackson Walker
Honestly the flemmish would still be better off with the dutch than with the wallons.
I feel like the only reason Belgium exists is because people didn't want a common border between France and the Netherlands and also because some noble family wanted their own little kingdom and so they got one between 2 countries with little in common except for ethnicity and maybe at little bit of culture.
Oliver Bailey
Matthew Stewart
Belgium is united, the conflict between Wallon and Flemish is over, otherwise Belgium is an old country, The Belgians are mentioned in history 80 years before Jesus in the Roman writing, If you know the history of Belgium Farm Shut up
William Watson
As far as Leopold II goes, I'm afraid the hand cutting thing is a british propaganda.
The brits did the same when Prussia invaded Belgium in WWI, saying the prussian army chopped belgian kids hands off which was admittedly a lie; then they pushed the same propaganda in Congo, probably as a way to weaken the reputation of a continental power.
Tyler Moore
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The conflict is very much alive and most people in Flanders who aren't cucls want to get rid of the walloon subhuma's asap
Christian Peterson
Wallonia is a socialist shithole to the point that even the Walloons are getting fed up with the banana republic tier governance. Wallonia was literally a banana republic, though. Once coal went out of fashion, it collapsed economically and still hasn't recovered.
Camden Cruz
>people didn't want a common border between France and the Netherlands
England didn't want the Netherlands to hold both of the largest port on the continent (Rotterdam and Antwerp), nor did it want France to hold both Antwerp and Le Havre.
Henry Sanders
flembot "nationalists"=juden dick suckers
Jonathan Ward
Look at this moocher! Look at him and laugh!
>Belgium is united
This is bullshit propaganda your red barons spout to keep you from acting up because the gravy train might end.
Eli Rivera
Would have been a dangerous corner of the World 3 major countrys, an extensive river system and a huge amount of industry. Wars could have been over befor the Brits could intervene. Cant have that.
Wyatt Nelson
we need to become one country again flanders
because the rest of the world doesn't want us to
Nathaniel Torres
I swear you flembots are all the same, you repeat the same shit all the time.
Adam Powell
Honestly, user, bitching that the Flemish constantly lodge the same complaints against you is like niggers complaining that cops keep stop-and-frisking repeat offenders.
Sebastian Perez
>Look at this moocher! Look at him and laugh!
>muh taxes, muh money, muh flanders, muh muh muh flanders has best potassium other countries inferior potassium
I bet I paid more taxes than you ever did Bart van de kuck; my taxes that probably went into some bullshit overpriced project in Antwerp I'm sure.
Jordan Ross
Nope it's akin to whites being sick of blacks complaing about them (muh slavery=muh illiterate WWI soldiers/language repression, muh walloons have too much power=muh whites have too much power)
Dylan Edwards
The last thing we need is conflict between the people's of Europe. Belgium has lasted for almost 200 years and in that short time we've managed to be a nation to be reckoned with. The best way to combat leftism in Wallonia is Belgian nationalism. Brave Little Belgium has proved it's worth. Let us fight for it once more. youtube.com
Owen Evans
We should only grow larger, not smaller!
Hunter Cruz
>The best way to combat leftism in Wallonia is Belgian nationalism.
Well... Belgium is dead (due to international effort). It could be revived tho but that eventual "Belgium" should be very different to what it is today .
I don't think Leftism should be combatted with Belgian nationalism in Wallonia.
Either a strong Wallonian nationalism (which is inexistant so far), if not, then either German or Dutch should be more present in Wallonia if "Belgian nationalism" should still be a thing.
Tyler Allen
>Belgica is the same as Belgium
Are that retarded ?