@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Urgh. The more you say, the more you don't realise how American you are in your assumptions.

And there we have Leopold II rearing his ugly head again. A megalomaniac who wanted his own colony (it wasn't even a 'Belgian' colony at the outset - he colonised Congo on a personal initiative, and went so overboard Belgium was actually forced to step in and take it off him, and was left with the mess that he had created - long story and I hate how foreigners always drag it in.)