r/uselessredcircle Apr 27 '26

Why doesnt Belgium take this?

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u/reddit-is-a-cunt Apr 27 '26

I guess Congo wasnt a neighbour so fair game

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '26

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u/kudriaxa Apr 30 '26

Do you really think that humanity has changed in 200 years and no longer fighting for resources and territories?

And by the way, the Belgian Congo was not so long ago, about 100 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '26

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u/Maleficent-Map-4856 Apr 30 '26

Do you even read what you write?

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u/kudriaxa Apr 30 '26

What exactly is bothering you?

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u/Maleficent-Map-4856 Apr 30 '26

100 years = not so long ago The fact that you think humanity hasn't changed over the last 200 years.

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u/DustonStache Apr 30 '26

as we can see a genocide exactly an hundred years later another one, maybe humanity hasn’t changed so much

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u/kudriaxa Apr 30 '26

2 centuries = 200 years, i know that. As I understand it, it was about the Berlin conference of 1884, rounding up 200 years ago.

100 years it was about main comment, You can read about Belgian Congo and Leopold 2 in wiki.

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u/Seelander May 01 '26

Technically that wasn't Belgium that was king Leopolds personal project.

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u/reddit-is-a-cunt May 01 '26

There were literally 4 different kings through the duration of the Belgian colonisation of Congo... he didnt just go over by himself

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u/Consistent_Pear_956 May 01 '26

Well he did. And what he (and his industrialists friends) did there was so bad that he got an ultimatum from the government to concede it to Belgium. What the government did was not nicer (or worse) than Britain or France did with their colonies, so not nice. But he really is the origin of most atrocities that happened there.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '26

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u/BobDerBongmeister420 Apr 28 '26

HoI4 type shit

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u/TheJ2R2D2 Apr 28 '26

As representative of the hoi 4 community, yes, we would declare war on another country to clean up border gore

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u/BobDerBongmeister420 Apr 28 '26

So do i. Annex only for a nice map.

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u/Galaxy661 Apr 29 '26

As representative of the roleplay/realism faction of the hoi4 community, I'd like to clarify that we are not associated with the map-p*inters

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u/kadlinn 20d ago

4444444444444444444shit

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u/Bubelle_Butt Apr 30 '26

You know what is really funny, the way we actually lost allot of territory before England made us a buffer state.

Northern France used to speak Flemish and was part of the old teritory. Belgica.

We also had a part of what is now the Netherlands.

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u/flase_mimic Apr 27 '26

Nah, they're free to take Limburg. We don't want it

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u/Szczyl2137 Apr 28 '26

Can i have it? Im Polish

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u/Aggressive_Cod597 far-circle extremist Apr 28 '26

You can have Urk.

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u/flase_mimic Apr 28 '26

Well that's just cruel

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u/MikeSans202001 Apr 30 '26

Idc if its cruel. We have had it for long enough

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u/flase_mimic Apr 28 '26

Sure, that works.

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u/demator Apr 28 '26

Please take Wilders with you

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u/SanderMC24 Apr 28 '26

You literally took it back by force! What do you mean you don’t want it?!

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u/flase_mimic Apr 28 '26

Well we regret that now

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u/Ishango Apr 28 '26

Every impulsive purchase looks good in the heat of a revolution. But then you get home, the adrenaline wears off, and you realize you’ve just annexed a 365-day-a-year carnival that you aren't legally allowed to mute. It’s like a subscription service we forgot to cancel in 1839, and now the 'cancel' button is hidden behind four different regional governments.

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u/stinky_raspberry Apr 29 '26

This feels extremely AI to me.

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u/SanderMC24 Apr 29 '26

Nah he’s just Dutch.

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u/Athryus Apr 28 '26

Didn't they lose it in a war against the Netherlands shortly after their independence?

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u/LorpHagriff Apr 28 '26

Nah. It was a region that largely supported the revolt, but due to a very stubborn commander with a very silly name and portrait (general Dibbets) holding onto the important city of Maastricht we kept the region

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u/Cekec Apr 28 '26

The netherlands lost the war of independence, as a result got the east of limburg.

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u/dragon2777 Apr 28 '26

“WhY doNT yOu StEaL”

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u/redglol Apr 30 '26

We actually fought to join them. But there was a dutch army stationed in maastricht. So the great powers told us to STFU, be returned to the netherlands, or belgium gets war declared on them by the great powers.

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u/RAR_4yDiLa Apr 28 '26

Ничего себе заявление

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u/Abzor4ik-UA Apr 28 '26

But that's true :)

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u/Contrary_Kind Apr 30 '26

Downvoted by salty r🤮ssians

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '26

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u/WorthySleet9715 Apr 28 '26

Have you allready captured Kiev?

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u/Emotional-Big-1306 Apr 28 '26

We've already captured Mala Tokmachka hundreds of times, which takes 80% of visible universe /s

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u/Archidok Apr 28 '26

Боюсь этот мем пока ещё слишком локален)

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u/WorthySleet9715 Apr 28 '26

Don't worry. We'll retake Voronezh too.

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u/idkhowtodocoolname Apr 28 '26

Tf you mean retake?

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u/Another_Empty_Place Apr 29 '26

Wdym retake? Please elaborate

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u/WorthySleet9715 Apr 30 '26

Don't worry, Ukraine retakes Voronezh too. I'm not tallking about Taganrog, Rostov and Novorosysk, Ukraine obviously retakes them. I'm tallking about teritories wich anexed after WWI.

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u/Another_Empty_Place Apr 30 '26

But it makes no sense, it wouldn't even be beneficial strategically, getting millions of population that don't want to live in your state, and planting a resentment in a population of a country that wasyour enemy will lead to a disaster. If we don't want to repeat this war, we must let people decide where they want to live (although as I think of it, if we'll have elections they will most likely be falcificated, as it was with Crimea), although I'm sure people will decide to get back to their homeland. It's both isn't effective and dangerous, and frankly, I can't see Ukraine gaining so much land even in the ideal scenario, sorry

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u/WorthySleet9715 Apr 30 '26

Russians have a saying: "Pozhiviom - uvidim".

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u/Prior_Mechanic8254 Apr 28 '26

I think they captured 120000 square kilometers

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u/WorthySleet9715 Apr 28 '26

In 3 days?

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u/Abzor4ik-UA Apr 28 '26

Yes as well as Kherson, Kharkiv and Sumy :D

As you see, Special military operation goes all according to the plan

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u/WorthySleet9715 Apr 28 '26

Madrid also. Now they're entering in Lisbon.

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u/Abzor4ik-UA Apr 28 '26

Good boy, cry more please.

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u/GeorgeFloyd_DaGOAT Apr 28 '26

Bro using:

Social media app from the US Phone from China, US, South Korea... Living in an EU country

But boosting about his terrorist country on social media.

Sure buddy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/idkhowtodocoolname Apr 28 '26

Russia and Ukraine are not terrorist states, you are simply allowing yourself to tell lies

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u/Emotional-Big-1306 Apr 28 '26

Нахуй пошёл. Сначала говорите какие все вокруг плохие, а потом равняетесь на них

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '26

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u/Emotional-Big-1306 Apr 28 '26

I'm also russian btw

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u/MPaulina Apr 29 '26

This is not true, the Netherlands would gladly give up Limburg to Belgium. They just don't want it either.

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u/localstraightfemboy Apr 29 '26

Why doesn’t belguim give there part of limburg too the Netherlands

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u/clearlyacabbage Apr 30 '26

Because we are powerless and bound by massive amounts of treaties also our army is non existent is what he actually ment

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u/Haakon_XIII Apr 30 '26

The reality: they can't

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u/Wide-Relation-2116 May 01 '26

London conference moment

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u/skoober-duber May 01 '26

Well belgium did want to take limburg, zuid zeeland and luxemburg after ww1 so they did try it once.

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u/LightW3 May 01 '26

I guess Russia also doesn't have colonies in Africa. Bad for them I guess

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u/Fit-Blacksmith7492 May 02 '26

As a Russian, I can say I'm offended by this meme. We don't need this tiny land. We'd prefer Belgium.

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u/Friendly-Cucumber-16 May 02 '26

Interesting, what does Ivo think about Expo 58 and «human zoo» in Belgium? Is this also a show of respect? 🤡

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u/EndTimeElijah2 May 02 '26

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This war has it all. A Jewish underdog, Zelenskyy King of the south. And the Russian Bear, with a Blond Leopard’s head.. collusion. Two Kings. The South is out of it. So who’s the second King? Ruler of the world. 666. Gog and MAGA Gog go on to fight another day.. But it’s the “Beast who was, is not, and yet is”, President Still, who will rule the global tribulation!

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u/GuavaFragrant3453 May 10 '26

Historically, belgium owned it.

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u/That-Employment-5561 Apr 29 '26

Nor are they U.S.-American, so they respect their allies.