Fallen Fool

Should be fun.

Congrats on getting peace.

STA stood by us in dark times. STA also abandoned us at a dark time in our history because the prospect of continuing to defend us against the aggression of our enemies was too "one-sided". Other alliances who had suffered nearly as much in our defense as STA chose to standby us. People like CCC, UPN and USN defended us then and they came when we needed them now. We have an obligation to them, to reward them for their years of faith with a victory. That victory will not come from placing our interests ahead of our coalition partners. It will not come from carving out special protection for old friends who sided against us. It will only come by building a consensus with our coalition partners about what strategy to take and what tactics to use. That is what we are doing each and every day of this war and I do not intend to apologize for it.

Attack across a coalition without treaties and you take flak. Attack across a coalition using treaties and you take flak. Can't win with this crowd, I swear. This is a dumb thing to say.

I don't see anyone in Polar complaining that STA honored it's commitments. I see members of Polar expressing surprise that we're taking flak for not shielding you from the consequences of your choices.

Everything is our fault apparently. Which is of course code for everything being TOP's fault, since they are le puppet masters.

Man. I'd almost pay money to see his reaction.

Wait, what?

I'm actually kind of sad.

Actually kind of amused at the moment.

Recognizing a potential threat and moving to eliminate it isn't a sign of fear. It's a sign of being rational.

You wanted to build a coalition, you tried to build a coalition and you failed to build a coalition. We found out and chose not to sit on our hands about it. I'm more interested in him thinking we're following TOP's orders. :v:

We still have the moral high ground. Dajobo just isn't being all Grub about pointing it out. ;) You tried. You failed. No point in waiting until you managed to succeed.

You had the will and sought the means. Waiting till you had the means would be nonsensical. How are we being dishonest? We disliked your antics in the last war, but that isn't here or there. After the last war, we would have happily avoided you, but you wanted REVENGE or whatever and started a campaign of harassment and coalition building against us. When you realized we had the stronger hand, you tried to pretend it never happened. We knew better and we figured if you could find the opportunity to attack us in the future, you would do so. Rather than sitting by passively as you tried to act as if your aggressive feelings were dormant, we chose to act.

We didn't have a grudge with NSO before this summer.