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Glad to see this get all the officially type stuff. Look forward to working with ya TOP.

Now you've gone and done it ... Brace yourselves. The trolls are coming with their sticks and stones.

So it begins. o/ MI6.

Maybe if the Peace Mode Warriors would come out and play, there would be more.

With dilligent planning and eyes on the post-war pole position, I would imagine.

Welcome to the war, FAN. Nice to see you. Get 'em fellas. And enjoy. o/

[quote name='AirMe' timestamp='1358830513' post='3083022'] This makes all you whiners who screamed "OMG GANGBANGS" for the last however many years hypocrites. Good luck and have fun y'all. [/quote] Don't expect to be treated with class if you show none yourselves.

Welcome to the fight, MK ... or part of MK. And this is an example of what I thought of when people started mentioning a 'strategy'... [img]http://f.cl.ly/items/433E3C3v0S1q010B0i11/invisible.png[/img]

Good show, NSO.

The time has come. Let's roll.

I was glad to see this happen ... especially when I realized it was the first treaty I would get to sign after being [s]conscripted[/s] inducted into TIO government.

I am very, very pleased to see this finally complete.

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[quote name='RailForge' timestamp='1297695264' post='2632956'] It hasn't changed at all. I don't know why you'd think that. When you come in on an ODP you do it because you choose to. It's optional, it isn't an obligation. So when you fight based on an ODP it's because you want to fight those alliances, and the ability to claim that "we were just honoring treaties" is gone, unlike if they'd come in on an MDP. DT deliberately chose to make Legacy their enemy and had no obligation to do so. That blew back on them. It sucks for DT, but this is the path they chose and CN isn't a popularity contest. [/quote] You truly don't see the irony in how much you sound like NPO a few years ago, do you? Probably not. However, CSN deliberately chose to enter despite a no-chaining clause based on a link from a treaty to allies of allies. Are you seriously suggesting that there's no relevant contradiction inherent in this situation whatsoever? Edited for spelling.

[quote name='Farnsworth' timestamp='1297694050' post='2632949'] Also, let's not forget that the CSN-Legacy treaty has a non-chaining clause. I'm no e-lawyer, but I do believe this means CSN's action (their DoW on DT) was merely optional as well. Granted, I'm not criticizing them for taking that option... merely pointing out what many will deem hypocritical. It's entirely possible my commentary is a bit late and that this line of defense has been rightfully abandoned. [/quote] You are completely correct. The hypocrisy is staggering, the ignorance of history is astonishing, and Liz's status as MoFA of CSN is hilarious.

[quote name='Lusitan' timestamp='1297675155' post='2632748'] Of course not. With Xiphosis involved it would be like sending an elephant into a glass store. [/quote] Well said, good sir.

[quote name='NoFish' timestamp='1297670712' post='2632686'] Please don't. We don't expect it and we don't want it. No one in GOD has any misconceptions that someone like Echelon or NPO would do everything we've done to them and worse, given the chance. Why do you think we're so harsh on our enemies? Out of petty cruelty? It may make for good jokes to say so, but I know you're too intelligent to honestly believe that. We know we have to do unto them so hard that they don't have the capacity left to do unto us in return. If we get terms after losing at all to one of the alliances that hates us, it will only be because they don't have the will, means, or political capital to disband us. [/quote] Wasn't that the old tC/1V move? It's inevitable that someone [i]will[/i] do that to you, [i]especially[/i] because of the harshness. I suppose history is ignored these days.

o/ DT LoSS stands behind you. Unlike CSN's government, we value fairness, respect, and friendship over pixels, undisguised greed (see: CSN Gov and the ever-arrogant ebil overlord Xiphosis, the de-facto Regent of CSN), and personal gain. I am personally new to CN and so harbor no former grudges. My view of this matter is entirely based on the words and deeds of the parties involved. We're privileged to have you as allies, our Dark Taliban brothers.