I won't even argue much with you Dachs anymore, at least not about the stuff we disagree on, but I am deeply annoyed by your refusal to admit your mistakes. So you say that the goal of universalism never ended. I deeply disagree with this. I believe it remained nothing but a hollow point of propaganda as the civilized white man spreading culture was used with unforgiving impunity in the Belgian Kongo.
But regardless. It was obviously something that can be described as a national goal.
And even if it's not, why bog down with semantics? It's like your annoying attempts to cut apart the guy asking about the most "decisive war" in history. It was painfully obvious what he meant yet you and others had to bog down the thread for 1 page over its definition. One going as far as to "prove his point" by saying "The Belgian War of Independence".
Congratulations!
I must add that the imperial administration is a type of government and the concept of imperial conquests a decisively important part of it.
