WHPR [Day 1,697] Manifest Destiny

Day 1,697, 00:04 • Published in USA USA • by James S. Brady Press Room


1. Manifest Destiny


Greetings America,
These past few weeks have been difficult, considering the entire ordeal with CTRL, and the less than pleasant way that people found out about it. Through all of the media, the rumors, the scandals, and the political points, I would consider it difficult for anyone to truly understand how the sequence of events truly went down. That’s the purpose of this White House Press Report, to make as much information about the processes, methodologies, and sequence of events, regarding the rise and fall of CTRL, including the now declassified discussions and collaborations of Congress, and the State Department. Here we go,

So let’s start with the actual charter of CTRL, which is slightly different than the version made public by Rylde in the first ‘scandal’ of CTRL. To give a little bit of background, the charter was created in the final days of the Israel Stevens Presidency, and was presented to Congress on the 3rd of July. At the time of the creation of the charter, the country presidents and MoFA’s of Poland, Spain, and the United States had all decided to the general direction of a new alliance, one free from Balkan domination, and with the potential to literally dominate the world in pure damage. Some of the preliminary numbers put the combination of the US, Brazil, Poland, Spain, along with the member countries listed in the list in the charter, at the #1 damage output in the world, dwarfing Eden, and resoundingly ahead of ONE. Each President, with the exception of Brazil, had agreed to the general idea of the alliance, and thus, it was moved forward from hearsay, to legislation;

“Next Alliance Project (N.A.P)

1) Mission Statement
The codename Next Alliance Project (herein referred to as N.A.P) brings together nations from several parts of the world under one banner to ensure the economic prosperity and national security of its member nations.
As a side benefit of ensuring the prosperity of all N.A.P members,
N.A.P also seeks to reduce the game’s current focus on Balkan-centric conflicts. N.A.P. plans to accomplish this by avoiding the distraction of perpetual wars between intractable rivals, and instead focusing on long-term, highly-strategic campaigns.

2) Member Nation Roster
United States
Poland
Spain
Brazil

3) Preliminary Member Nation Roster (Subject to Change)
United States
Poland
Spain
Brazil
Canada
United Kingdom
China
Sweden
Italy
Slovenia
Ukraine
Argentina

4) Leadership Structure
N.A.P shall employ both a Security Council and a system of Supreme Generals/Commanders.
The Supreme General shall be the head of the alliance, and will be elected democratically by the official members of the alliance. The SG shall appoint her or her own Supreme Commanders and deputies. This group shall run the day-to-day operations of the alliance, including but not limited to: priority setting, RW support, etc.

The Security Council shall consist of a representative from the original four core nations (US, Spain, Poland, and Brazil) plus a representative from one of the other countries who make up the alliance. The 5th representative shall be determined on a rotating system where one country gets to choose a representative for a month, then another country, and so on and so forth. The Security Council representatives may either be a citizen of the country, or the President of the country. People holding foreign citizenship for comune reasons will not be excluded from this. The Security council has the right to veto any vote made by the general election process (see section 5.) However, their veto can be overruled by a revote.

5) General Election Process
Alliance decisions such as SG voting and removal, member additions and subtractions, membership punishments, and any thing else deemed necessary at a future date, shall be determined by a vote by the official alliance member Presidents (or a representative should the CP be unable to make it.)

Alliance member additions shall pass only with a 51% majority.
Alliance member removals shall pass only with a 67% majority.
Alliance member punishment (such as temporary HQ removal) shall be determined by the Security Council, and will pass by a 67% vote in the general elections.
SG voting shall pass based on who has the most votes, just like in a CP election.
SG removal shall pass only with a 67% majority.
Overturning a Security Council veto shall pass only with a 67% majority.



6) Signatures

USA CP -

Polish CP - Signed, Twoj Stary

Spanish CP - Signed, King Chuchi I and Siddy

Brazilian CP -”

Note #1: The list of planned members isn't entirely complete. It is likely that there will be changes to it, including adding France, Germany, and other nations.

Note #2: Brazil is presently voting on this in their congress, and their president is on board.

Note #3: By approving this, the US will effectively leave Terra, and will begin working on changing our MPP stacks, along with our allies, to represent the views of this Alliance.

July 3rd - CTRL passes the US Congress
At the time that this charter was passed by the United States Congress, it received 18 yes votes, 14 no’s, and 3 abstentions. The discussions regarding the charter were heated, with two, very clear, sides emerging. The first group was in support of CTRL. With the promise of Poland to drop a Balkan centric mentality, this alliance seemed to be the best possible option to the United States. Brazil seemed on board, Spain had already signed the charter, as well as Poland, and it looked as if all the speed bumps. The second group argued from a few points of view. Firstly, that the discussion regarding a new alliance should’ve been longer, and that we hadn’t had time to discuss many of the issues regarding it, and secondly, that this put us in a precarious position with many of our current allies. And while efforts to repeal the charter began almost immediately, the rules of Congress prevented the opposition from doing so, primarily due to the fact that their claims rested on the idea that the rules were not properly followed, and no such negligence was to be found.
Note: The charter has since been repealed.

July 4th - Rylde’s ‘Pre-Election Bombshell’
Then Rylde’s article was published late the night of July the 4th. The version of the CTRL charter that Rylde received, sadly, did not include the preliminary list of countries. His version had, instead, the ‘possible 5th security council seat’ segment where we had placed the preliminary list. Whether or not this would have changed Rylde’s opinion, we don’t know. The resulting diplomacy went down in the following manner, after Rylde was contacted by three different United States officials, he took the stance that Canada would not join CTRL unless they were given this’ 5th Security Council’ seat. We, as the United States, could not make the decision for the alliance, refused, and then negotiations broke down. Canada then took the stance, a few days later, that their discontent with the alliance was a result of the fact that Germany, France, and Russia were not included in the talks, and neither was Canada, and therefore, it was his responsibility to disclose the information to his country, in the pursuit of transparency.

July 6th - CTRL Accelerates
Up until this point, CTRL had only been introduced formally to four countries, Brazil, Poland, USA, and Spain. The intention of the founding powers was to create an alliance, and then invite other powers to it, falling back on what we had learned with PANAM/Terra, that being, it is generally better to have a steady foundation for an alliance before having to deal with the new influx of countries. Originally, CTRL was to be announced once all four of the founding members had ratified the charter. At this point in time, the charter had already been ratified by three of the member nations. It was only Brazil who had yet to finish deliberating on it. However, since the alliance was now a matter of public affairs, the United States State department accelerated its efforts in the creation of the alliance, considering countries felt belittled and hurt that they had been left out of the process. Two specific actions took place at this point, July 5th-6th.
1: China, the prospective ‘5th power’ of CTRL was contacted
2: Negotiations began as to incorporate former Terran powers, ie; Germany and France, with Poland.
Similarly, Canada would’ve also been contacted at this point in time, except the current status of diplomatic relations at this point of time provided the mentality that any efforts would be wasted.

July 7th - Eden becomes involved
After contacting China, communications were not able to go past the initial stage due to upcoming events. For one, EDEN HQ decided to contact president Evry to discuss their concerns. Eden was concerned with the idea that Poland could hijack the alliance, and drive it towards being a ProONE entity, one of the major claims at the time in public. However, the US administration pointed out that the alliance was structured in a way to prevent something like that from occurring, and that we had already put forward that we would not MPP Serbia or Hungary, hence the entire mentality of the alliance. Eden officials seemed pleased to hear this, ecstatic even. They contended that their only concern was that the new alliance would become ProONE, and that they would’ve gone so far as to MPP both Poland and Spain, provided they dropped their Serbian and Hungarian MPPs. We left that offer on the table, considering an acceptance of it would also invalidate the idea of the alliance, but walked away knowing that our relations with Eden were not destroyed by this ideal, contrary to what a lot of public sentiment was trying to contend.

July 8th - Eden/CTRL Meeting and the Infamous ONE HQ Meeting
So, on July the 8th, the first meeting between Eden HQ and the prospective CTRL CPs took place. The meeting in and of itself established very little in the means of progress, but rather, simply served as a dialogue between the two organizations. However, it also served as the grounds for one point of view regarding the fall of CTRL. As you should know, from the leaked ONE HQ logs, the polish CP met with ONE officials on July 8th discussing the new alliance. There has been some dispute over the legitimacy of the logs themselves, with Poland claiming they were changed, and the Spanish CP claiming that they’re legitimate. Poland’s sentiment in this meeting was alarming, and coincided with many of the suspicions of those who opposed CTRL in the first place, that the entirety of Poland’s involvement in the new alliance was simply to create discord between Eden and the United States. Poland expressed the sentiment that the United States would need to be convinced by Hungary and Serbia of their worth, and that the new alliance would become ProONE, instead of a true third way, as we had originally aspired to. Some would say that this was a reaction by Poland to the CTRL - ONE meeting, and that they feared the same thing we did, on the opposite side. Poland could very well have been turned off to the alliance proposal by the idea that they could’ve been moved into an entirely ProEden stance, and if we have a right to stand against ProONE, then they have equal right to do so from their standpoint. Whether this was Poland’s original goal, or just a reaction in the middle of the negotiations, the statements themselves weren’t the moves that killed CTRL, it was what happened the day afterwards.

July 9th - The Death of CTRL
At this point, the Administration had come to the conclusion that the logs posted from the ONE HQ were, arguably, mostly accurate. Therefore, considering the fact that the original intent of the alliance seemed to be in dire straits, we needed to make a move back towards the goal of a true third way. So, the United States and Brazil asked Poland and Spain to do what we had already done. We asked, before we move any further with the alliance, for them to leave ONE, considering we had already left Terra upon the acceptance of the CTRL Charter. Spain had no problem with this point, but Poland did. Not only did Poland refuse, they made a demand of their own. Poland demanded that Hungary and Serbia be allowed to follow them into CTRL, the exact countries that we had originally adamantly stood against, and the exact countries that would invalidate the entirety of the third way, and instead, replace it with ONE, plus the United States and Brazil.

July 10th - Onward, Our Decisive Action
So, after almost a month of foreign affairs work, countless hours of negotiations and public relations, Poland had made it’s power play for the alliance, as many people said they would do. So we were presented with an option. Drop the intent of the alliance, and join what would likely be the most powerful combination of countries ever to roam eRepublik, or stand by our intent, and our people, and refuse the offer. Considering the original combination of CTRL countries could’ve dominated the world, those plus Serbia and Hungary would have presented a combination of forces literally unbeatable by those who would have opposed us.

Yet, we refused. We said no to Serbia and Hungary. We said no to Poland. We said no to CTRL, and we said no to world dominance. America looked at insurmountable power and told it to f*ck off.
Our intention with CTRL was never to betray our allies, or to hurt our people. Our intent with CTRL was to give the eWorld something that hasn’t graced us in quite a long time. A true non-bipolar system, wherein countries weren’t forced to choose between one side and a vaguely similar side. A world where battles weren’t constant, where wars weren’t repetitive, and countries didn’t have to bow to the powerhouse priorities because they’d be left out in the dust if they refused. CTRL, in the state that Poland wanted, wasn’t this. It was PEACE at it’s prime. ATLANTIS remixed. Simply a perpetuation of the status quo that has helped take the enjoyment out of the military module for too long.

To change the world, you have to take risks. We saw the potential, and we took it. We took the leap, and it seems that we fell flat on our faces. There are plenty of people out there saying, “I told you so,” and even more just laughing at how naive we must’ve looked throughout all of this. From day 1, we were told how this could’ve turned out, by various members of the most respected levels of the cabinet. Yet, to get something that you’ve never had before, you have to do what has not been done. That was the mentality of our leaders, and that is the mentality that we will move forward with. As for America’s path now, we’re going to take the road least traveled. No gods, and no masters. Non-Alignment.


We’re done with the status quo.
If we can’t change the dynamic of this broken alliance structure by the introduction of a third alliance, then we’ll damn well do it by paving the path of non-alignment. We will set the standard for countries that are sick of bending over to mammoth powers controlling entire alliances, at the detriment of their allies, and their friends.
We will befriend the countries who are our friends, due to the merits of our bond, and not the merits of a faux organization.
You are not an ally of America because you have a title,
You are an ally of America because you are our friend.
You are not an enemy of America because of your title,
You are an enemy of America if you hurt us, or our friends.

Our new path means new allies and new enemies. Countries that have been our friends in the past may very well become our new opponents, and enemies of recent times have the potential to become our most valuable of allies. Only time will tell where our new path will lead, but above all else, we’re moving in a direction that’s a significant change of pace for ourselves, and the world dynamic. From now on,
We will define ourselves,
We will pursue greater prosperity,
We will defend our friends,
We will punish our foes, and above all;
Manifest Destiny



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