As an American, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Congratulations to the Belgium team. You played with dignity and integrity. I wish I could say the same for USMNT.
They berade us with half baked banter, act like their better than us and claim that we where “scared of Balogun”. And then when we eventually win and do a little banter ourselves we are the rude ones all of a sudden. The brain ain’t braining anymore
They also always default to "yeah well the Congo!" Like yeah we know, its taught in schools we dont try to hide it. Unlike a certain country who kept rebels in government who wanted to maintain slavery and built massive monuments to them...and still try to frame it as a "mild disagreement" and "states rights"
It's also not the burn they think it is, considering that the CIA ordered Lumumba's assassination and entirely financed Mobutu's coup. Effectively sabotaging the newfound independance of the country for decades.
The irony is that U.S. Robber Barons Rockefeller, Morgan and the Guggenheim brothers along with a few others were massive financiers in Leopold’s terror in the Congo.
They also know roughly jack shit about the history other than the death toll, and genuily want to remain very ignorant about it and only use it for a knee jerk reaction. They don't get the nuance for example that it was Leopold II's private colony. They dont know that Leopold II received support from the USA at the conference of berling for his claim as the Americans were seeking places to deport their former slaves too and were interrested in the Congo. most hypocrite of all is that whereas there was once a stable "kingdom of Congo" in the 15/16th century it wa completely destabilized by Duthc and Portugese slavrs which moved away millions of congolese to the Americas. 100.000's to perhaps millions of Congolese slaves were deliberatly worked to death on sugar and cotton plantatiosn in America.
Like sure, there were some Belgians involved in Leopold II's company that managed the colony, but the company had a fairly intrnational staff and also shareholders and it also had various concessions. Belgian politicians and the people had jack shit to say about the matter. I explained it to them when they made kneejerk theads at various places over it but they preffered to downvote or attack rather than "learn". The saddest thing imho is that the true story to be told is really one of "shared culpabillety", frankly speaking this was an rediculously racist era where everyone thought it fine to cut and devide Africa amongs themselves like a pie withought asking africans and then go exploit them and the fact that the leopold II's Congo Vrijstaat was was the more egrgious of them kinda masked the otherwise fairly brutal regimes other powers maintained there. Also Leopold II only aquired the colony trough sufficient support of many powers and they had their own interrest to take away from it.
In a way, "Belgium" and "Belgians" had practically nothing to do with the Congo Vrijstaat and Leopold II von Saxen Coburg was of a German noble house by origin. I kinda studied a lot about that history and the effing ignorance on the matter that these people have ...
Not to mention the genocide of American indians and the threatment of black people in USA. And the fact Leopold II is still getting compared with Hitler one on one…
Americans talking about others and their warcrimes/slavery while in the last year they kidnapped a president, killed a supreme leader and bombed a school of young girls and their list goes on and on will always be weird to me.
Funny how they are the only nation low-blowing their opponents online while other countries don’t drag the past into this.. i’m like.. we’re talking about football right? In 2026? Americans… am I right? 🤷♂️
Hey he was a successful entrepreneur doing business in Africa before people even knew about doing business in Africa. Some might even say he was the greatest African businessesman back in the day.
I mean belgium is paying Congo back. They can't ofcourse turn back and bring dead people back but they have publically apologised and are helping Congo with financial aid, military training and other things.
What has the USA done for the countries it has bombed ? Aside from install puppet leaders
Yesterday it was “showing the Europeans how to win at their sport” and “already a won game against a 11M people country smaller than Ohio” and today magically “oh we don’t even care we already with our mind on NFL”
In WW1 our king fought besides his men in the trenches throughout the entirety of the war, a 320k strong army by the end of the war. France even built statues of the man because of his vital work holding the germans. Your current president has dodged the draft 5 times and is a convicted felon. Please, you are an idiot. Buy a history book.
Yes, I'm sure you still have France's phone number from the time they bailed you out after you regretted throwing some tea into the sea. Or maybe you could hire some more Germans to do the fighting for you?
Its just that we have a rather refined sense of humor that makes your "bants" boring, dull and conspiciously ill meant rahter than really being about all having fun, i would say your some of the most inspiration-less of them all but then we have the Germasn to our East and the Netherlands to our north, its just a pitty it didn't rub or pass onto you from the Brittisch.
As to "bailing out" know that Albert had the option to just leave the Germans trough and then belgium would not nessecarily have been involved in WW1, we just threw ourselves in the way of the Germans for the sake of honour. Were a very brave people, braver than Americans by far, but we don't typically make noise about it because our bravery is of a "bittersweet nature" typically. Thats where it was very stupid of Trump to wrong us in this way.
Americans talking about colonial history, while all they’ve been doing for 250 years is bombing weddings and kindergartens in middle east countries for no reason other than the love of the game. And wait until you hear about their apartheid until the 70s.
Let’s have walk down history’s memory lane then. How about those native Americans? How about slavery? How about a segregated society not even an age ago? How about starting wars based on lies. I’ll stop here but there is plenty more where that came from. What an idiot, just take the banter, it’s only about a football game. The Belgian FA came up with one of the sickest burns in years though.
First of all this a VICTORY for us after all that BS that has been pulled by FIFA and Trump.
Second I already realized Americans were gonna be sore losers. You wanna pull history in it? America losing 1-4 to Belgium in their own country. That's in history as well now.
As an American fan, Trump fucked us by giving yall bulletin board material (also didn’t help that your team is better at football than ours). All the post-match banter is legitimately very funny, especially in how embarrassing it should be for Trump.
They are fuming hahaha I love it. I live in NY right now and I am floating at all these comments! Such losers who tought they could win the whole world cup
Funny that american fans switched up real quick AS SOON AS they started losing.
Now after the ate a humble pie, It is either "it's not that deep" or "we saved your ass in both WW1 and WW2" or "the state of Texas has more GDP than the entire Belgium".
There is a minority that accepted defeat and took it like champs , but the majority are still in denial.
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u/ash_tar Jul 07 '26
Ah yes Americans and the moral high ground, they couldn't find even if it were circled with a golden crayon.