[I&W] Thank you Canada!
MaartenW
Roughly 75 days ago the Netherlands was able to RW Northern Netherlands and launch a successful Airstrike on Canada which saved NL as a country.
Of course it wasn’t a hostile attack, the terms were agreed on by both the Dutch and Canadian governments before we were even able to RW that one region. During my term as president the NE war with Canada ended, this caused my government and their Canadian counterparts to have close contact from the very beginning, communication was smooth but most of all they made us feel welcome.
A few weeks later the game changed, determination and empires were introduced which are beneficial to the Netherlands at the end of the day but ruined our deal with Canada, it was a matter of time until we would lose our overseas regions. I was glad to hear that the Canadian congress accepted a proposal to wave away our debt of 21434 CC which we still had to them, in my opinion this really shows good manners.
I want to thank all Canadians who made this possible, especially Addy Lawrence, Oinyo, Exalted Druid and their governments. For helping the Netherlands in time of great need I would like to dedicate the following lyrics to you. (I don’t think everyone will appreciate the music that comes with it but I think the lyrics fit the situation
😉)
“A cry for help, a distant whisper
A foreign nation calling our name
Sent to hell, to reach for heaven
To serve in dark, as light in the black
Sent into battle to aid strangers in need
Gain independence, our forces will lead
Final solution when all others have failed
Liberation is coming our path has been laid
We remember the fields, where our tanks held the line
We remember our brothers in arms
When the war, has been won
And our march home begins
What awaits has not yet been revealed
What was won? what was lost?
Will our deeds be remembered?
Are they written on stone or in sand?”
Again a big thanks and as long as I play this game, your deeds will be written in stone
😎
Best regards on behalf of Iron & Wine,
MaartenW
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Hail Netherlands
Hail Canada
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Hail Canada
Hail Netherlands
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Hail Netherlands
Hail Canada
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nice letter 🙂
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ah, screw em all 😛
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Hail Netherlands
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Thanks for writing this, Maarten!
Well if we have to wait for the cabinet to write something..
too busy with boring strips 😛
you still didn't read my article? lol
True, hope next government will be better...
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Hail Canada
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Unfortunately the CP has not informed us about the situation..
He was very quiet this term, which is very unfortunate.
because Weekstrom and myself were still negotioning with the eCanadians. And it's more of a screw-up by the gov before me, that didn't thought it was neccessary to review the whole rent agreement.😁
First of all, you told me about extending for many months during Maarten's term without mentioning further renegotiation on the terms. Secondly, you extended the lease yourself without congressional consent at the beginning of this term under the exact same consequences as Maarten did. Thirdly, as you stated this info on the forum days ago, you had plenty of time to write an article.
I said consequences, I meant circumstances. It's 5am.
wtf
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voted very hard as a former Canuckio
It sure is a pity you didn't see the need in re-negotioning that agreement when I asked you Maarten. Could have saved us a lot of cc.😁
Now we're kind of screwed, knowing that they invited us to AS them, promissing us a safe harbour, and us paying top dollar for the rental agreement which got screwed by eCan citizens who didn't even have the decency to waite till after Congress elections with their actions. All by all this whole campaign leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth. I'm still hoping the eCanadians will do the right thing and offer us at least some kind of compensation.😁
Your re-negotiation input was to make it binding for 6 months, I am happy I didn't follow your advice.
that was still before the gamechange, after that it would have been better to change to different regions, so the determinationbonus had les effect.
the game changed in the meanwhile, we all know that. Now let's just part eCanada with grace.
All I know was that it seemed Canada screwed us, now I see a different story, thanks for enlighting us Maarten.
a lot of stuff in this article isn't true. f.e. about addy lawrence: he did his very best to screw us there and make the whole campaign a failure. we were promissed 4 regions there, and when he had failed to stop our AS he tried to box us in in NT, by getting the Swiss in Alberta, and the Norwegians in BC. I'm sorry, but most of this article is complete BS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_%28mind_game%29
and don't forget Muglack, who was their CoC back then: he did his darn best to screw up the proposals that ought to help us out.
That first month, and all the time after our biggest help was klop123, without him it wouldn't have been possible, also guys like I-bleed-blue, Oinyo, ED, DMV3 e.o. where a great help!
Please tell this to Canada, I am sure they will stand open for us next time 😒
Just be happy we got full congress for a few months and we finally got regions, without them we also could still be occupied with no regions
Marnix you joker, did you forget I arranged this? Thought you wanted to know what really happened.
and ofcourse we'll never AS on Canada again, didn't you learn anything from this whole episode? Too many of their own residents where oposed to it, although it was a minority, it still was more then all our fighters together. Plus some of them, had put in a lot of money to get us out.
So you arranged this, but you were this whole month busy with re-negotiating, because previous goverment signed the treaty,
Somthing isn't right, there 😒
noop, I was mainly busy with other stuff, cause my old mom had to undergo major surgery, twice 🙁 so I've been doing some up and down driving to 040, and a lot of phonecalls to family, that's why I didn't had any time to write a decent article. Only when I saw this piece of dis-information, I had to react, to tell folks like you what really happened.
To be honest I think GF takes more time than writing articles. Nontherless I hope your mom is alright.
M. de Ruyter, maybe you should have focussed on an official article from the government, instead of whining about this one, about how this doesn't make you look good.
For now I think 80% of the eNL citizens completely agree on this article and accept this gesture from canada in knowing that the agreement itself will not be repeated, but further diplomatic relations will remain friendly.
Way to go Canada!
just read my comment above, hope that'll shed some light. And ofcourse our relations with Canada will remain friendly, what are you insiuating? It was only a small group that oposed the treaty, although many of them are well known eCan citizens with the neccesary influence, which caused us to lose the regions up there.
I'm insinuating that although this plan did not work out properly the relations remain good. Nothing more nothing less. I can easily see some eCanadians and eNL'ers reading the discussion you started here and doubt if this is the official statement of eNL.
Apart from this, best wishes for you and your mother, hope she is doing well! And if you would just have posted this fact, I think the opinion towards the lack of Cp statements would have been far more understanding😉 So, bury this discussion?
as much as I like to agree with you, I also very much like to keep my rl and game apart. especially cause of the unpleasant comments this could bring. 😛 thank you for your good wishes though. 🙂
Thks very much to eCan that gave us a refugee resort in tough times, THKS THKS THKS THKS, it was a very generous gesture to help us out in time of need 🙂
Hail Netherlands
Hail Canada
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Mooi artikel, ook al ontbreekt helaas een Nederlandse versie. Voted !!
Canada was a great help and a slight majority favored us, but a large minority wanted us gone. Canada was pretty split on the issue.