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Ok, I know this is probably near impossible; but I was wondering how you could replace the Pax Brittania with a Pax Belgio, or a Peace of the Netherlands.

That is, how could you make the netherlands the dominant colonial power by the 1800s.

I have a few ideas;

have new amsterdam last and prosper.
have the dutch claim and settle australia and new zealand when the map them in the 1600s.
but then they'd probably have to federalise in order to pull as many troops as their european neighbors.

But i know that the dutch east indies made them a f**k load of money, so they could use that money to settle across the globe and build the greatest navy.

is it possible?
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