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If only we were all free spirits, floating on the ether of faux moral outrage and an entitled sense of helplessness.

That moment when the most cartoonishly selfish nation ruler in this world thinks saying other people have friends is an insult, because when it has led to their downfall they soon find they have none worth anything.

Our bad for not assuming the nation with the most tech in the game wouldn't front up much of a challenge.

This might in fact be the first conflict ever that could very well span multiple weeks and involve the use of nuclear weapons.

Don't be so quick to dismiss it, let it stew a bit. There's some real possibilities there.

They're peace moded harder than NADC on crack, I suspect they'll be fine.

We refuse to acknowledge this as a war until a respectable alliance joins the other side.

Taking idioms literally is quite original. We're all stunned with the originality in this post.

Bye Felicia

I like some of these people.

There was always the vanishingly thin chance NADC's allies might defend them. Polaris tries to think the best of people.

"Preempt" ultimately comes from the latin prefix "Prae", meaning "before" and the verb "emo, emere" meaning to buy or to distribute. Empty also comes from "emo, emere" but along that etymological route also took on the idea of completely evacuating something. You can see the term used mean to distribute something in a way that doesn't completely vacate it in the common phraseology for river systems, i.e. the Nile empties into the Mediterranean Sea. In this case I used "empt" in quotes because while it's not a word in common usage, the meaning could be understood by the supposition that eliminating the prefix from "preemptive" still left a meaning no longer bound by time sensitivity.

Part of the idea behind a preemptive strike is that the "empt" hasn't happened yet, ideally.

In fairness, it's become hard to determine which things NADC says that "count" and which things they say that don't.

We'll never get to know if NADC would have been hit with a manufactured reason because NADC didn't present that as an opportunity.

Remember that time magicpirate did something about it?

Elections have consequences.

AlmightyGrub can save you. The hour is not yet too late.

if their intent had truly been diplomatic negotiations, there was no reason to hide that intent from Polaris. This would be a more believeable narrative if they'd ever actually approached Polar diplomatically for the desired result. They were clearly waiting for a larger play to be made before they made their move. Anyone foolish enough to believe they'd have done so through diplomacy either vastly overrates NADC's diplomatic acumen or wants so desperately to believe NADC that they're putting reason aside in favor of some other agenda.

I for one can't fathom what kind of a monster one would have to be to be incapable of civil discourse with Almighty Grub, a gentleman among the nations.

Can't be a secret plan if it's public record. ]

Let the negotiations begin!

you wanted to negotiate your revenge? that's a new one.

Trying to build a CB for any reason in particular?

yeah guys we should roll hawaii for the eleventy thousandth time, that'd actually matter.