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Press Release: The TOP-etc/C&G Front

Bob Janova

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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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Bob Janova

You're all discussing TOP and IRON's entry when that's been acknowledged to be a mistake by pretty much everybody (including me). I don't think anybody's actually addressing the other half of the topic.

Denial, your diversions and ad homs continue to inspire millions.

Krashnaia, analogies involving a supreme overriding force of law (the police) just doesn't work for international relations. No-one has the strength to enforce a judgement on C&G and TOP. The 'court of public opinion' is not really a court – and if it was Londo and Athens would already be in jail for attacking KoN with even less legitimacy than TOP and IRON managed here.

If C&G really were just interested in peace, and they knew that TOP and IRON were coming for them (as Archon states in his thread), then they would have notified TOP and IRON of the impending peace agreement, or agreed to peace out this front almost immediately, as was done with the others. No, they were not interested in peace. They were interested in a tactical peace on other fronts in order to turn the tables and attack TOP and IRON with more alliances. That is as cynical as Crymson.

Each 'unjust' war comes with the possibility of two injustices: an unjust entrance, and an unjust prolonging of the war and harsh peace terms. Usually these go together, for example with VietFAN II or the GPA war. But they do not need to – in VietFAN I for example FAN started it, with no good reason, but it is still quoted as an Initiative injustice because of the prolonged witholding of terms. Or for a more recent example, Karma: NPO (and friends) had the unjust entrance, and those who argue that the terms are too much – and it's beginning to look like some alliances from that front like the look of hegemony and pushed up the terms for reasons of material gain – would say that they were the recipients of the unjust terms. In this case, C&G has been initially wronged (though not 'unprovoked' as some would have it), but that does not mean they are not themselves lining up an unjust continuation of a war which for TOP could have been over after 45 minutes (or avoided entirely).

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