One hundred years ago today, the capital of Belgium in Brussels fell to Germany. The Belgian government had already been relocated to Antwerp.
The occupation of Brussels in the context if this trip is symbolic because ultimately, this is where the road through Belgium leads. This is not just the capital of Belgium. This is now the capital of Europe, where the European Parliament sits. The city of today represent the failure of the invasion. And it doors not merely represent the failure of the invasion but the failure of any power, be it France under Napoleon, the Soviet Union or Germany to completely dominate the European continent for its own ends.
I arrived here, again, one hundred years later to see what there is in the heart of Europe.
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