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?
Which will become hell on earth.Leopold gets Visayas and Mindanao
How does he actually control it though?Wasn’t the Philippines already quite rebellious?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?
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 belgiansHow does he actually control it though?Wasn’t the Philippines already quite rebellious?
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.
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.
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.
I don't know, but the amsterdam red light district would run out of moneyWhat 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?
They were already colonised by the spanish and America is already eyeing it, leopold does the same thing he did to the Congo he’ll be caught between the Philippine revolutionaries and the AmericansI'd really feel bad for the people in the Philippines...
What did we do to you to deserve this fate?!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?
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 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 it will either them or the Americans who will join the War against Belgium and allies.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.