I'm not blaming anybody for the decline of Planet Bob or the Decline of TPF. NPO and other major play-it-safe alliances aren't necessarily bad; they're just the embodiment of taking things safe, jeopardizing nothing, and going through the motions.
Life on Planet Bob has involved going through the motions for years now. For both the dominant and the demolished, even warfare has become a rote, joyless yearly practice; a short period of mildly-boring formulaic “fighting” followed by months and months of sheer tedium while preparing for the next predictable and increasingly uninspired dust-up. It doesn’t matter which side of the curb our nations are on. It’s just a different kind of tedium we deal with. Planet Bob is a calcified, shambling corpse. If the predictable and bland modern life on Planet Bob doesn’t have your citizens contemplating pulling-the-plug on their life-support, I commend you.
I liked being a ruler of my nation for several years, maybe from 2007-2011). This "use-my-warchest-to-harass-NPO-on-my-way-out" is my love letter to the old Planet Bob and a middle-finger to what it has become. I'd love to see this sort of exit become a tradition.
Someday, the Gods of Planet Bob may finally throw their hands up and perform a planetary mercy-killing. I'm not sticking around for it.