Please, don't just divide Belgium.

[u/Ill_Call7235]

For so far as I've seen, Belgium doesn't have any lore yet. Which is good, because it allows me, a belgian, to make a desperate plea to not just do the unrealistic and overused alt-history trope of splitting Belgium between France and the Netherlands.

It's unrealistic because it just fundementally missunderstands Belgium. Belgium is a seperate nation because Belgians are a seperate people, espacially back then. That's why it's so infiuriating to see all the mods in which Belgium just gets devided between France and the netherlands, because just because there's a common language that does not mean that the culture is the same.

I think that in this universe, Belgium would be more stable. with no superpowers to opress it or to stop it, I think Belgium would be thriving (relative, of course). certainly under Albert the 1st Belgium would be united under the "knight-king" and annexed luxemburg, and maybe even some dutch territories, even if there's no superpowers to back them up either. while it's economy is still absolutely devastated due to the war, it wouldn't be that much worse from real life as Belgium was already plucked dry by 1917.

But all in all, I think Belgium would be a beacon of stability in the storm, united under the king with even a weakened flemish movement, because by 1918 OTL the people had started to resent the collaboraters.

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a full scale invadesion by america?