I've never understood the amount of people who say STA is "anti-white unity." Take a look at the wiki, STA was a signatory on the very first white unity treaty. While I don't speak for .gov, I think that to say we're opposed to white unity is naive and misleading. Unity is fantastic and indeed cooperation is indeed critical to the success of a sphere, but unfortunately, most sphere unity pacts these days involve some sort of sovereignty impinging defense clause. Sovereignty is paramount to the STA in regards to individual nations as well as for the alliance as a whole, and to sign a treaty that would force our hand in military actions is viewed as quite unacceptable, even by basic membership such as myself.