You Know You've Won the War When....
Entry posted by Ashoka the Great
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....you get an "I don't care because I'm quitting" PM during wartime.
This is especially true when the person sending it self-advertises as a high-ranking government member.
Perhaps I should take a step back and explain what I'm talking about.
We all know that war isn't about infra, tech, land or casualties. It's all about making people announce that they "don't care" about anything. Once you can do that, you've won. After nearly four years in this place, it's the only part of the war system that I really enjoy and the only aspect that isn't completely random. (Don't get me started about my joy-riding bomber pilots.)
Oh sure, for alliances it's about victory. But for the little guy, the grunt, the individual member, it's about winning an attack when you have 38% odds. It's about watching your enemy's air force launch a massive airstrike that does absolutely nothing. It's about thwarted nukes. And, of course, it's all about those precious moments when your enemies' tears begin to flow.
By now we've all seen the plea for white peace, made by alliances who are currently being ground to a fine powder. Now, my take on this is that it was a poor attempt at spin-control, almost offensive in its transparency. A bit sad, really. For someone like myself who has nothing to do with peace negotiations, it just made me shake my head in wonder. What were they thinking?
It was almost as if there was an outbreak of 'Just Not Getting It' among those alliance's leaders. (The defeated don't get to dictate terms, for starters.) I was embarrassed for them. But I thought that maybe, just maybe, I was reading too much into things. Surely they didn't intend to make themselves look so foolish. And maybe they don't see themselves as defeated.
And then I met topgunsamus, Invicta's Minister of Information and Deputy Minister of War:
"Attack me and i assure you, unholy vengeance shall rain down upon your soul..."
Holy !@#$, I thought, this guy means business.
OK....I thought he meant business.
And so I attacked, and braced myself.
At the very least I should sue for false advertising.*
Now, I can't speak for every government member of every alliance, but when a high-ranking member throws out the "I don't care" line, it makes me wonder if he's saying the same thing to his membership. Or is he stringing them along with talk of "standing strong" and "sticking by one's friends and principles"?
I came back to CN to fight with my brothers in Nordreich. I heard the war was coming, created a nation and here I am. But this....this is a very new idea for me.
Pray tell, how does one stand by an alliance by abandoning it?
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