[quote name='Sardonic' timestamp='1330491349' post='2930469']
Nein comrade, an alliance war by our definition is only between sovereign alliances. Never individuals, and if one of the alliances involved is sovereign and recognized but the other isn't, that's where the 'mass tech raid' category comes in. Anyhoo, the act of somebody sending aid to an individual can lead to an alliance war, as we've seen here, if the sovereign government of the alliance the aiding nation belongs to does not agree to reparations. This does not mean it has become an alliance war, the refusal to come to terms of the sovereign government of the aiding alliance makes it an alliance war, plenty of times we have come to simple diplomatic agreements with these sorts of incidents. Additionally, in this scenario, the tech raid has not [I]Become[/I] an alliance war so much as sparked one. For all my distaste for unaligned, the unaligned in this case is for all intents and purposes, an innocent bystander in the whole thing, who can leave the situation by merely joining a valid alliance. (unless he launches an aggressive war on GOONS, of course).
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I think this is still moderately hypocritical, but you are correct in saying that you were not being hypocritical in supporting NG or whatever in the past few weeks. It's just that you've written the hypocrisy into your charter, and enforce it with your alliance's sovereignty. Which is actually pretty impressive, and the kind of gutsy-in-a-bureaucratic-way maneuver more alliances should consider. It also tickles me pink that the GOONS are currently led by a capable e-lawyer.