My analasys of the war
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So, we have a war on our hands, and now, as usual, those who declared are trying to validate their cause while those who are defending will try to show that the cause is weak. Standard politics. But something is going on, and it can be analyzed.
So, how did this war start? From what I can gather, some guy made threats to an alliance, that alliance was spied on by an unknown agent, the alliance spied on the guy making threats, the guy making threats attacked the alliance. Boring. Unimportant, but boring.
Then it kicks up. NSO have admitted this nation, per their longstanding policy of accepting nations at war. This guy apparently is less than honest with the Sith about the status of the war, and then suddenly, SURPRISE, RoK has attacked the nation with no indication to NSO that this would occur. Because of the lack of explanation from RoK at the time, this is interpreted as an act of war against the NSO.
Enter Heft. Hoo threatens Heft that he will consider the aiding of the nation an act of war, but fails to provide adequate reasoning beyond a "my word is law" mentality. Ironically, in an attempt to avert war, he aids the nation in response to RoK's attacks, which he considered an act of war by RoK - Mind you, his reasoning has nothing to do with the ongoing TENE wars. This is a mistake by Heft, because the TENE wars had not achieved peace, and it violated the Sith policy of not aiding nations before their wars were resolved. It was in response to RoK attacks on the nation. A fatal oversight by Heft, no doubt, however, that the TENE wars were not left to resolve. In the end, the numbers are $6 million in aid to a 4k NS nation.
The rest of the story comprises NSO officials attempting to correct Heft's error, and being ignored by RoK. These attempts at negotiation began almost instantly with Rebel Virginia and lasted until RoK would hastily declare war less than 24 hours later. No contact or negotiation was ever achieved in that period.
The above are, to the best of my knowledge, an accurate representation of the facts.
Now, let us analyze these facts to see the big picture.
The first thing to make a note on is Hoo's threat: Just because Hoo says something is an act of war does not necessarily make it an act of war; the facts surrounding why the aid was given are what determine that. Therefore, we disregard Hoo's threat, and analyze the circumstances.
RoK attacked a NSO member without NSO giving the OK, or even attempting to explain why. It cannot be expected that NSO see things from RoK's angle; They did not know the history and RoK failed to make available that history. All they saw was an attack by RoK nations on one of their own. It is therefore not unreasonable, and disregarding the active TENE wars, a very moderate response, to send aid, when an attack on the offending RoK nations could have been in order. This is why Heft viewed it as a 'compromise.'
We move on and examine the act of giving the aid: Was this legitimate? I will argue that it was not, because the TENE wars had not achieved peace. Heft failed to see this bigger picture when he authorized the aid. The aid given was thus in violation of the Sith policy of not aiding new members until they have resolved their conflicts. This is only compounded by the fact that Sedrick, the recipient of the aid and the nation central to this debacle, directly lied to NSO command, telling them that the wars were resolved. In the end, NSO should have waited for verification of this claim by seeing peace achieved in those conflicts. The policy on not providing aid is in place precisely to prevent a conflict like this from occurring.
Can Heft's actions be considered the official acts of the NSO? I will argue that they cannot be; First, Heft lacked the authority to order the aid, due to the standing Sith policy against doing so. Right off the bat, this presents problems for RoK's case, and Heft can arguably be considered a rogue member of the government. But the main thing that makes this event not the responsibility of NSO is that, almost immediately after Heft made his error, Rebel Virginia, a member with equal raking as Heft, moved to correct the mistake, by offering negotiations with RoK.
RoK did not even entertain the offer of diplomatic negotiations. The government of the Sith would continue until the instigation of war to attempt negotiations to come to a diplomatic resolution. These were ignored, and RoK government had a notably reduced availability over this time frame.
The above analysis of the facts, I hold to be true to the best of my knowledge.
As we can see, mistakes were made by both sides, and the big thing left is to apply opinion to the facts: Was RoK justified to take military action, or was it an aggressive and unjustifiable move?
To answer this, we have to answer whether or not the act of providing $6 million in aid to a ~4000 NS nation is an act which is beyond even entertaining the notion of diplomatic negotiation.
There are some people with the opinion that any amount of aid, no matter how small, is an equal act of war with direct attacks on an alliance, and is beyond diplomatic negotiation, demanding immediate military response.
I believe that the magnitude of an act is something that cannot be ignored, and I believe that the magnitude of this act was trivial.
Why do people go to war? War is a diplomatic tool. It's primary function is to force compliance out of non-compliant parties. I therefore am of the opinion that diplomacy must always be a precursor to war, if only to make an assessment as to whether or not the other party is willing to be compliant with your demands.
Because RoK entirely skipped over diplomacy after the offense had occurred, it is clear that they had no desire to determine whether or not NSO was willing to be compliant with any sort of demands they may have had to repair the situation. The only other possible motivation was that they simply wanted war for war's sake, and thus were content to not possibly lose their 'justification' for war in the course of diplomacy.
Thus, I hold that RoK is in the wrong, and that RoK are the aggressors of this war. I hold that RoK simply desired to start a war with a weaker target.
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