Your alliance crapped all over us, disrespected us, pushed us around, and then was shocked we stood up for our friends. Honor is going to a war when you know the odds are hopeless, but that it is the right thing to do.
I will not dispute your numbers, we five cannot hope to compare with the number four alliance. That you seem to think bragging that you have more strength than a micro smacks of inadequacy. I do see that you are already paralyzed in fear of comrade Shtanto--our poet-warrior. He sits, composing his haiku, until he is needed. We would not trouble him until our hour of need truly calls for him. One does not disturb the tranquility of the mountain for the concerns of ants.
It's true that we have suffered in this war, but how could it not be so when we fight the number 3,4,6, and 8 alliances ranked by nation count. That you use this a bragging point, shows the values of the Free Hold. An old friend in CN once told me the motto of Frundsberg: "Viel Feind', viel Ehr'." Many foes, much honor. There is glory to be had and if this is to be our final hour, I would rather meet it saying that I stood, sword in hand, against the jackals of a dying game.