Well, geography isn't exactly your friend when it comes to European confrontations. As I understand it, Belgium is right between two large powers , with no English channel or even serious terrain obstacles to keep out enemies.
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Well, geography isn't exactly your friend when it comes to European confrontations. As I understand it, Belgium is right between two large powers , with no English channel or even serious terrain obstacles to keep out enemies.
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And unlike the Nederlanders to the north, they don't have weather awful enough to make their country uninteresting.
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Re: Britain without coal
Obviously you haven't been to Belgium :DOriginally Posted by El Barto
The weather makes our country uninteresting, but it's no impediment for an invasion unfortunately :D
With regards to European confrontations: whoever wins, Belgium loses (and it was like that for the better part of a 1,000 years in Western European warfare.
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Belgium and the Netherlands should have stayed as parts of the Holy Roman Empire. In fact, we need a new HRE today IMO.
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The part of Belgium I'm from was never a part of the HRE.
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