Is that at all accurate? Because it seems pretty familiar to me. It sounds like a pretty disorganized mess to me.
Yes, it was. It was a giant cluster$%&@, one of the big reasons depraved couped Letum. I'm sorry, what does that have to do with today?
That's right, because CNARF was not a GATO enterprise, it was a walford enterprise. Not to mention, that was during a time when any post a GATO member made was immediately buried under the Orders' minions repeating party lines. The sheer volume of anti-GATO posts effectively overwhelmed any effort on GATO's behalf to bring reason or common sense to a debate, for probably two years, at least.
So, GATO is inferior because instead of blindly defending everything it does and spinning the truth to make it look better, it instead uses common sense and decency and can admit when it was wrong? Because instead of lying outright, signing worthless treaties, and shouting down any reasonable post with "hail"s, it made normal, thought-out posts and attempted real relationships with decent allies?
If you think GATO preferred public opinion over NS, you clearly are not aware of Great War II, Great War III, or the GATO-1V war. GATO hasn't been a popular alliance with the peanut gallery on the CN forums for a long time, and thank admin for that. If GATO was popular with the average poster at these times you're describing, I would have never been a member.
You talk of the NPO's sterling reputation over GATO's. While the NPO's allies abandoned her in her greatest time of need, GATO's allies sacrificed their entire alliances in the pursuit of justice. I've never seen better allies than some of the ones we've had during our toughest times. I'd never trade our reputation for NPO's, or anyone else's.