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Published in Netherlands - Political debates and analysis - 2 - 21 Jan 18 12:53

Dear countrymen and other readers,

In recent days I have been asked byÂ my German counterpart to unite our two nations. But in fact he meantÂ we should all become German.Â Â Â Â
No, thats not what my forefathers have been fighting for! When you are Dutch, you never want to become anything else.
We all know that our Lord and Father has created this planet for us to live on, but the Dutch are the only people that created their own country. When we arrived here, many ages ago, we found a delta of great rivers that ended in the sea.Â We then litterally made land from the sea. When the tide was low our ancestors trew sandy dikes around small pieces of shore where the sea had just retreated.Â

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Later we started dredging that land by use of windmills.

So they became fertile fields.

When our Saviour was born the Romans came to our lands to subdue us. The Roman limes went straight through our country from West to East, leaving the Northern part independant. They couldnt afford to subdue these Northern clans because they needed the troops to invade Brittannia.

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In the 4th century A.D. the Romans had to retreat due to attacks from the North. The Franks became the new ruling class. Then later the Netherlands became a part of Spain. We had to fight a bloody resistance war of 80 years to kick them out!

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As you can see on the map on your left our nation used to be a lot bigger. In 1830 A.D. Our Southern regions became independant through Roman catholic clergymen incited by French agents provocatuer, and called their country Belgium, as Caesar had called the Netherlands when he came here.Â
Later, in 1890 A.D. Luxemburg didnt agree with being ruled by a queen (queen Emma) and declared its own independance. Youll find it strange to know that before their current grandduke Henri came to power his grandmother grandduchess Charlotte ruled the nation from 1970 A.D. untill 1985 A.D. So what was the problem again??

Anyway, like I said before, we Dutch are a proud nation, and we will never be subdued. In 1940 A.D. our Eastern neighbours tried to attack us, we kept them at bay and even destroyed the larger part of their carrierfleet, so later they couldnt invade the UK anymore. Sadly Germany then began to bomb our cities, so we had to capitulate.Â

Well we all know how that ended, and after the war the Netherlands became one of the worlds leading powers in agriculture, and currently we are the 2nd biggest exporter of vegetables in the world! (after the USA)