Should Belgium exist?

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Maybe this should have gone in political debate.

I was not asking this as a hypothetical where you personally have the power to arbitrarily destroy countries by fiat.

I was asking this in the same sense that a discussion was had earlier about whether or not Ukraine should be divided into two countries.

Belgium has had a longstanding, albeit not a violent, tension between its Flemish and French speaking populations. One of the major reasons for Belgium's creation - that Dutch-speaking Catholics in the southern Netherlands were being oppressed by a very dogmatic Protestant monarch - is obviously not relevant in a largely post-religious Western Europe. In this context, does the modern linguistic tension and the somewhat asymmetric economic development between Flanders and Wallonia provide a reason for the country to dissolve that outweighs the historic rationales for its creation?