AHC: Largest possible Belgian empire

SinghKing

Banned
Have the Brabant Revolution succeed in 1790, with Johannes Franciscus Vonck coming to power as the Prime Minister (or President) of the realized United States of Belgium. Then have them unify OTL's Kingdoms and Duchies of the Netherlands (almost the entirety of the Low Countries) by offering them entry as new federal states in the U.S. of Belgium, which takes the place of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands ITTL (acquiring all of the constituent states' colonial territories in the process- no Kew Letters ITTL)- except that the U.S. of Belgium's federal, democratic, largely secular structure ITTL allows it to achieve greater regional unity, enabling it to avert fragmentation. Does that sound like a good POD to build from?
 
You could also have a personal union between the United Kingdom and Belgium, and then have the UK fall to a communist revolution. The Royal Family flees to Belgium, and unwilling to let the communists have the massive empire, Belgium instead inherits the large empire.
 
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