WI: Leopold II acquires the Philippines

What if King Leopold II successfully purchased the Philippines from Spain? Would he want more colonies such as in Africa? What would a Belgian Philippines look like?
 
Philippines would be split and Leopold gets Visayas and Mindanao while Americans get Luzon, we should remember that a a part of Luzon, Nueva Ecija was considered a separate colony.
 
How does he actually control it though?Wasn’t the Philippines already quite rebellious?
That and they have a habit of producing tribal headhunters that will make it a game to screw with belgian colonial forces and due to that that its already been colonised by the spanish means people will resist even harder and will have comparatively weapons as the belgians
 
What's the year of the POD?

Philippines would be split and Leopold gets Visayas and Mindanao while Americans get Luzon, we should remember that a a part of Luzon, Nueva Ecija was considered a separate colony.

You need another POD to have Belgium go to war with the US. And no, Leopold will not sell his colony to the Yanks.
 
What's the year of the POD?



You need another POD to have Belgium go to war with the US. And no, Leopold will not sell his colony to the Yanks.


No, what I am trying to say is that Spain selling the whole Spanish East Indies at that time is not plausible, they will sell it piece by piece not as a whole and that is what happened in OTL the Spanish sold the Pacific colonies to Germany and the mainland to the Americans.

And at that time, the Americans were already interested in Luzon due to it opening Japan.

Even if the Belgians acquire the whole Spanish East Indies it would end up under the Brits because the Brits will use the formerly Spanish East Indies as a settlement in a future war that Belgium participates.
 
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I think the Belgian/German acquisition would later end up under the British after a great war

Even if the Belgians acquire the whole Spanish East Indies it would end up under the Brits because the Brits will use the formerly Spanish East Indies as a settlement in a future war that Belgium participates.
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Only if Belgium ends up on the opposite side to UK, surely? In OTL 'gallant little Belgium' acquired Ruanda-Urundi from Germany as a League of Nations Mandate after WW1. If they held The Phillipines at that time they would probably get some Pacific Islands, perhaps Palau as a Mandate.
 
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Only if Belgium ends up on the opposite side to UK, surely? In OTL 'gallant little Belgium' acquired Ruanda-Urundi from Germany as a League of Nations Mandate after WW1. If they held The Phillipines at that time they would probably get some Pacific Islands, perhaps Palau as a Mandate.

Yes, but the British would side against Belgium in any war because the British do covet the resources of Mindanao, that is how the Imperial/Colonial empires operate.
 
Yes, but the British would side against Belgium in any war because the British do covet the resources of Mindanao, that is how the Imperial/Colonial empires operate.
But that would require there to be a war in europe that is not ww1 for Britain to get involved in other wise the status quo in Europe take priority over some Belgium colony. The Philippines is a poor consolation prize for allowing German hemegony of Europe.
 
But that would require there to be a war in europe that is not ww1 for Britain to get involved in other wise the status quo in Europe take priority over some Belgium colony. The Philippines is a poor consolation prize for allowing German hemegony of Europe.
Yes, but it will either them or the Americans who will join the War against Belgium and allies.

I don't think Spain will sell Philippines or Spanish East Indies as a whole, the Americans had to force the Spanish everything via a war but I think if anything the Spanish might be willing to cede is Luzon(too rebellious and netdrain) which I think Leopold will not be interested in it, the rich areas in the Philippines is Mindanao/Visayas which the Spanish would want to retain I think and where the Belgian interests lie.
 
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