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Ardus

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  1. My concern is that the wrongdoers will not be provided a real pathway to peace. They can arrange settlement with TDO, but that is evidently insufficient to placate the list of alliances stepping in not to defend TDO, but to get a chance to be haughty to those who were in the past haughty to them. A nation could seek terms from one group, only to suddenly have to seek terms from others when they step in to fill the gap. That is marvelously petty. The individualized peace with each alliance approach also presents ample opportunity for double recovery (or triple or more) against the wrongdoer. This entire affair is an exercise in short-sightedness by the extremist forces and base revenge by the interloper expeditions. With the sole exception of The Democratic Order, who is simply defending itself, everybody involved in this looks like a damn fool.
  2. He did only say a certain neutral alliance. "A" being singular.
  3. alright boys lets strike now while the iron is hot go go go
  4. I don't think WTF would have been so suicidal as my understanding is they're not particularly active even by neutral standards. GPA probably would have gone the worst, but do they keep up much in terms of warchests? I mean, aside from MQ, when was the last time anybody meaningfully hit a neutral?
  5. Saddam Tamerussein may have engaged in extensive anti-neutral rhetoric, but there was no evidence of WMD's to be used against neutrals beyond The Democratic Order. You can point to the intelligence all you want, but ultimately you refused to let inspectors do their jobs and when you got to the Mushquaeda homelands, you found the intelligence was, in fact, bunk: a brief question session with literally anybody would have probably revealed that neither you nor neutrality generally were under any threat at all. Our own intelligence operations launched after the war began revealed that it was not in fact a prolonged jihad, but a two-week surge in terrorist activity which would ultimately wither, intelligence confirmed by the present attempts at exodus from MQ and general decline in its activity. Your actions have only drawn foreign fighters in DBDC into the fray, destabilizing the region, and caused your alliance substantial losses in lives and treasure it need not have risked. But hey, at least you publicly declared your action and gave a reason. Even if the reason is bunk that's a damn sight better than nothing at all.
  6. With all this MI6/NSO love, I'm beginning to wonder if Smurf hasn't ironically caused a step towards peace and stability...
  7. tell them to send the money back because whatever is in the water here is making us all stoopider good work bros and good work to all who contributed
  8. I'll be the judge of who is and is not a little tea pot.
  9. Polaris is magnanimous and merciful Glad to see this end
  10. All men who choose to do so live long enough to see the empires they built in the sand fall with the incoming tide. But so few choose to build the empire to begin with, and fewer still will take enough heart to build it again. Above them all are the precious ones who see waves come and go through rebellious eyes, defiant, and never regretful. With respect to us, your wish would yield nothing.
  11. Valhalla and TOP may be in some dispute for reasons that aren't entirely clear, even to the both of us, but I still on a fundamental level have some respect for Val. Do not underestimate the capabilities of the Ardus/Chefjoe axis to feud and reconcile on a dime. It's what people who like to fight do. Congrats to my ally and to Valhalla for hoping on the bandwagon :P
  12. There are only so many ways to explain to a person that the fundamental premises on which they've based all their analysis is incorrect. It isn't our job to chase Junka Lannister around the boards exchanging wall of text for wall of text at every turn.
  13. We have proactively informed those applying to TOP that they must individually settle their outstanding conflicts, with special emphasis on ensuring they leave with the blessing of the neutrals and those parties publicly declared to their defense. I'm willing to give anybody a second chance who seeks it and let bygones be bygones. I have thrived and suffered both by that rule, but I believe it to be a good one. This is not the first time I have seen the "implied strong-arm" argument casually tossed at an alliance I call home. It is worth less than a flea's waste, an fabricated accusation of wrongdoing where no whiff of wrongdoing exists. Your feigned \m/oral outrage is similarly thin, premised on the desire to tech raid and seek petty vengeance upon those no longer deeply integrated into the broader political web. TOP is protecting those who don't want to be involved and is willing to accept those who respect the requests of those they have wronged. Given our long history with MK, the common procedures in international affairs, and a desire to not exacerbate global population declines, it is absolutely the correct course of action.
  14. Well he doesn't like the disbanding alliance to start...
  15. Warchests weren't as universal in the Great War Era and, even where nations had them, they didn't last very long. As such, wars had to be short as a practical matter.
  16. Blind assertion does not an argument make. TOP moves at her own pace, not yours. That said, why so hostile? With our number of mutual friends, we ought not be fighting.
  17. None are beyond redemption. The blessings of Johan are written on the hearts of all men; we need only accept his glory and repent our sins.
  18. MK was, at its core, a force of survival through utter destruction. It laid waste to NPO in its brief defeat in NoCB, then took strenuous efforts to tear down the order Pacifica had constructed, brick by brick, and then any who threatened to try and recreate it in the wake of Karma. It sought the elimination of what it considered the greatest sins of Pax Pacifica: viceroys, EZI/PZI, and other abuses of power. The end result was a sort of perpetual revolution, with MK (and others) steadily turning the world upside down politically. Pacifica & Company was burned, TOP/IRON was burned, both Polaris and Pacifica were scorched just to be absolutely sure Karma was complete, and then it purged its own ranks by splitting SF/XX and obliterating them in two consecutive wars before the "revisionists" (gotta keep with this Cultural Revolution metaphor) managed to rally together to force a stalemate. The only things they didn't do were (1) propagate a fundamental ideology, as Pacifica attempted; or (2) cement its power through a hyperbloc as Pacifica did through The Initiative and later The Continuum. Instead it kept pragmatic, chaotic, and sat astride other smaller blocs of influence: C&G, Frostbite, PB, SF, XX, PF, and MJ (though not all at once). I don't believe it would have been any more interesting if MK had deliberately restrained itself through (1) or (2) and doing so would have been both contrary to the wishes of membership and contrary to the fundamental basics of existence. So I'm not sure what they could have done to fulfill your dream of "substance or interest." MK did what MK wanted to do: Kill. Everything.
  19. There's a certain charm to this post that I can't help but smile at.
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