You're currently senselessly posting ad hominem attacks and claiming proofs on your point that are all unfounded, and that's unnecessary. This has nothing to do with "You jumped so I will too..."; rather, we're purely standing by our treaties rather than stepping by and letting the wolves at the lamb. We're definitely taking steps to correct this situation, as it is by no means a "it happened, and that's that" sort of situation. You're taking things and scaling them out of context as well. A mass tech raid on a 30 man alliance is totally different from a mass tech raid on a 170 man alliance, purely because of scale - the impact this raid has on bob as a whole is less than the impact it would have if it were aimed at a larger alliance. I'm not calling it unimportant, but rather that the treaty web would have fired up had it been a larger, treatied alliance rather than a much smaller alliance with few or no treaties. Thus, we're attempting to prevent a senseless world war over this and instead repair things diplomatically, whereas if it were against a larger alliance, there would not likely be such an easy way to prevent such a situation, as trigger-happy, edgy alliances might have already begun the war.