Press Release: The TOP-etc/C&G Front
From the Ministry of Foreign Affars.
There has recently been some confusion about the Serian position regarding the TOP/C&G front in the Techraid War. Some foreign officials are making reference to our position without perhaps fully understanding it.
We believe that this front was opened as part of the ongoing Techraid War, and that it remains part of one conflict. This belief is based on the fact that the war was live on all fronts when TOP and their coalition entered, and that the operation was discussed and cleared with other members of the Polar coalition.
We acknowledge that the pre-emptive attack on C&G was a poor decision, based on an overly liberal reading of the future panning out of the war, and that it caused unnecessary escalation in the near term. We also acknowledge that some part of this reasoning appears to have been based on unfounded paranoia, and to launch a tactical attack on a perceived enemy at an opportune moment.
However, we also believe that, as part of the Techraid War, peace should have been negotiated on this front as if was on the other fronts after NpO and \m/ had agreed to peace.
We believe that the disinclination of C&G to agree to peace on this front as the rest of their coalition did on other fronts is as cynical as Crymson's decision to open the front.
We believe that TOP and coalition partners' poorly chosen entry to the war is not sufficient reason to deny them peace, and that C&G's desire to prosecute the war until TOP are 'no longer a threat' is reminiscent of the Hegemony.
We also believe that asking alliances such as STA and NpO to fight on both sides of the war to be unnecessary, opportunistic and lacking class.
In conclusion, all sides have made mistakes and poor decisions during this war, and come off looking worse than they did a month ago. TOP's decision to enter pre-emptively was a serious error. But the war is now in C&G's hands and it is they that have chosen, since the peace on the other fronts, to continue it, for reasons every bit as cynical as TOP's.
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