A Call for Armistice
Rocco Baldelli
Last night I was lucky enough to win a tough competition with a longtime party companion, GoBucks. It's been a pretty hectic first day because of RL issues and all the plans I have for the party. USWP stands today as the largest party in the eRepublik sphere. Yesterday, elections saw a draw of almost half our membership come out and show interest in our party's future. Today, we embark on the next generation of the United States Workers Party.
But recently something has left our nation is disrepair and it saddens me to see the direction of the nation go spiraling down. A few weeks back after Thanksgiving, someone who will remain unnamed mentioned they were collecting evidence of French military structure in a public IRC channel. At first I was lost, and just put it in the back of my head figuring it wouldn't be a future concern. This was the same time our party was having discussions of our future in the next presidential election. It came down to the final hours before, we finally decided to go with Benn and I have to say it may be one of the biggest political slip-ups I have made since I started playing.
Not soon after I was informed in a covert message from Benn that we were going to declare on France. It made sense now. The arguments for war really made no sense to me. Of course everyone loves to fight, but this wasn’t going to be small scale fighting. He told us that activity was going to increase in the war and we would have an increased sense of nationalism. Also he stated that France was refusing to give Switzerland their independence, which at the time I had little awareness about. So the vote went to congress, and passed overwhelmingly with only 3 votes for nay. One being mine.
This war is not justified on the grounds that Benn provides. This is imperialism and it sickens me. You can sit there and troll all the dissenters of who are against your lost views, but tell me how this isn’t acting in an imperialistic behavior. According to the French President Elvea, discussions with the Swiss have been going on for close to a month now and had only gone astray for a tiny bit because of disagreement that was resolved. Negotiations from what I can see were fair. The French were going to assist in the creation in the country. Something we haven’t even done yet. We are sitting here barking out Swiss freedom, but do they really want our help. Have the masses of die Schweiz, Svizzera, Suisse or whatever they want to be called comes to us and ask for our intervention. I haven’t seen the proof.
Despite my own opinion against the war, I stand by our soldiers, who have obviously been mistreated during this entire venture. Overall planning for the attack was half-assed. We were left stunned when they actually made a legit counter-attack. I still back the soldiers of eAmerica, but the war needs to stop. Benn argues increase inactivity as a positive, but there is a very good chance with the sordid wellness levels, hundreds will never recover. I am getting messages and shouts multiple times a day begging for wellness. By the end of this conflict, it is very possible hundreds of citizens will die of wellness levels. Citizens are at levels down below the 20’s, and wellness isn’t even being addressed. I’m sure that 500 Gold wasted at Limousin, could have helped paid for gifts. Low wellness means low production for companies. Not like our economy is doing that bad currently. Soldiers need to return home, get their wellness boosted and start earning money again.
I could continue on ranting for pages, but I want to get the message of simple as I can. A settlement needs to be found between the two nations. For the welfare of our nation, we need end this combat and put focus on fixing the economy and the soldier who just lost wellness they may never see again. The imperialism needs to stop now. Give France their regions back; we have no right to occupy them. We should both open relationships together with Switzerland in effort to see a positive sovereign future, unless the Swiss want nothing to do with us. Peace between France and the US needs to be made. I think our global images has already suffered enough. The United States Workers Party no longer supports Benn and his unjustified personal interests in France.
-Rocco Baldelli
President of USWP
Comments
This story keeps getting more interesting, couple this portion with the new military directive... No Military Pay... and what is the common person to do???
We the Common Man should start looking for our Next President!
commies... is the USWP going to be like the spanish Bloque Obrero?
Voted!
Return home, regain wellness, then strike again, harder. It is the only way to progress...that and to produce weapons at reasonable price.
pfft return home, you are fighting from home
scrap military pay, well you don't need it as long as you don't have to pay for supplies yourself
weapons: to be honest you don't need them any more either, they just help.
reasons for war i do not know so i will not comment
We're talking about doing to the French exactly what the Indonesians did to the Australians. Is our government going to take the time to release joint English-French press releases? No. We're going to continue to do everything in English, and the French will be an alienated, conquered people.
Certain people stirred up a lust for war in this country, and our government fabricated a reason to invade and occupy a sovereign nation, France. Don't make the US appear to be an imperialist nation to the world. That's not what we are about.
First congrats to Rocco Baldelli,
I agreed about all you saying
I'm the Swiss redactor of the William Tell Minute Men and yes i can tell we ask the president of the USA, as well the presidents of Spain, Sweden and UK to fight against France.
Because France invaded us for no reason more than 6 months ago.
The French government never seriously intended to give back your freedom, the treaty which were to be signed would have made Switzerland a French dominion.
It was not to be accepted in any way. So yes we lost all our golds launching 4 rw, the last rw succeeded and one of our region is free now.
But if you stop the war, the will invade us again.
But maybe the American pacifist don't care about a country like Switzerland, a country were liberty is a world which has much more meaning than in collectivist France.
If you don't care about us, stop it but it will mean that your eUSA will have nothing to do with the USA of 1776, the one of the Insurgents.
I found your article and your thoughts singularly clear-headed and sound. Not to mention fair-minded. I do hope that many in eUSA will see the truth in your words. I am as much for the freedom of Swiss, as the next man, but really, honestly, truthfully - Atlantis just using it as a pretense for this war.
This article has my full support.
I am totally agree with you,Quicksilver.
I am a supporter of Swiss Independence,and I will be the first who will fight AGAINST France if they won't accept it.
But the situation is that this war is for destroy France not for the independence of Switzerland.
Until this is a fact,I will fight against agressors like USA Sweden Spain and Canada and UK until my last blood.
And just check what happened 3 months ago,when the Romanians did the same with us,when they captured 90% of Hungary,without reasons.
Was it fair?
Interesting article. I always did wonder why but it was never my job or place to question it.
Great article voted and agreed!
Voted and agree...
Pulling out now would be a complete embarassment.
Going in was.
Done right the war can be used to up wellness significantly.
This was a much valuable stress test for the american military, and a lesson learnt for all involed.
Jordan what did you do to help the Australians? Your support really helped them didn't.
Voted
Voted. I'm glad a second vote in the nay was finally revealed. Our votes (and whoever was the third one) were truly symbolic and showed courage. I thank you for this article.
"Soldiers need to return home, get their wellness boosted and start earning money again"
Umm... You mean come home from Florida? Low wellness during this war is only due to either bugs (being unable to use a hospital after fighting) or negligence of those who did not know how to use the hospitals. Don't blame Benn or Army for this, blame yourselves for using media for your own political agendas instead of educating people how to properly play this game. All you do is talk about how large your party is, but you fail to mention that most of the members are ignored and forgotten right after they join.
Return home? I'm fighting from America. Get wellness boosted? I'm at 100!!
The war has been great for me. I was barely scraping buy, trying to earn enough money to raise my wellness (not very successfully, either), and war has solved that problem! Now I work, train, and fight five times a day - and end each day with 100 wellness!
@Chahk Noir - Rubbish! The people that care to get active are not forgotten. How do you think I got involved? I've asked and asked and volunteered and I ended up being more involved than I could ever imagine. You just have to try and be persistant.
Return home=states, Some people actually give a crap about the state they represent.
Rocco, I understand about returning home. I moved to Florida for the war. All was well until I decided to fight one more time for the day. On clicking the last answer in my battle window it displayed "IE cannot display this page". It resulted in the client considering me to have skipped all the questions. I lost 30 wellness as a result. I'm now at 20.08 wellness today after bringing it up with a Q4 food. I moved back to New Mexico (which didn't hurt so bad with a Q1 ticket as -2% of 17 isn't much). It was so painful to be screwed in such a way I returned to my home state and am running for Congress.
who cares if it is imperialism...i say we build towards a mighty American Empire and become the hegemonic power of the international community
We went to war under false pretenses. I voted for this war but I now regret that vote. I believed our forces would focus on Swiss independence, but instead we both towards Paris instead of towards Geneva. This war has been badly mishandled. As a Congressman, I call on Benn and our leaders on the ground to re-direct our forces, focus on Swiss independence, and then a timely withdrawal.
i will never vote for u as congressman after reading ur stance on the war...i say we take paris and the rest of france and use the conquered country as a launching pad for future invasions of european countries and expanding the new american empire
I MUST vote and read for this as a USWP party member? Didn't know we voted in a dictator for Party President.
Umm.. see ya USWP.
Sindius you are free to do what you want.
You have my support, Rocco. This war has to stop if the French have opened up negotiations with the Swiss.
Just because we lost the war is no reason to start blaming the president and talking about personal interests that you can't prove, see, or have any idea of what they are.
Armistice: Maybe
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Giving back territory we won fairly: Hell no. I don't want to see the regions I and hundreds of other sacrificed so much USD, Gold, and Wellness to win for the eUSA simply given back. We won them and won them fairly. Just giving them back completely invalidates the sacrifices you're so hot to take advantage of, Mr. Baldelli.
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2 Language News: No. The number of French living in the regions we've taken is absolutely tiny, certainly not enough to validate forcing our government to do two-language posts.
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I see the the USWP no longer has the same views and interests I do. Today is the day I leave it and seek a party that does. Any party looking for people who think before they vote (and who vote every time) shoot me a message.
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-Drake Koeth, Captain of Delta Company, eArmy
Swiss would be independent since the 15th if nobody launched a Resistance War before the end of negociations.
In the case we didn't want the Swiss independence, why Atlantis did not negociate before attacking ?
There is nothing about independence in this war. It is Imperialism with an insulting propaganda.
I already sent a proposal for peace to every countries' President involved in this war against France. All we want are our territories back. Negociations with Swiss go on.
I am glad to see people denonciating this. Thank you Rocco Baldelli.
Elvea,
President of eFrance.
Disagree.
Rocco, you know that war is a boon for wellness. At no other time can you gain 40 wellness per day with no expense. The people who come to you with wellness woes need information more than they need gifts.
This post explains it all.
http://erepublikusa.com/forums/index.php?topic=867.0
@ Elvea
First Brazil and Indonesia must negociate a peace proposal with Argentina -it was Peace who started this WW, don't forget it- and then there will be peace in France.
This is what I think.
kurtkbain
Argentinean MoFA.
Join the Neo Whig Party! We believe in Peace thru Military Might!
Couldn't agree more.
This war goes beyond just eFrance, remember it is a PEACE vs Atlantis war and as some have mentioned PEACE has declared war on many Atlantis fronts recently and this was our response.
What a load of bologna. What is this Armistice? You're talking about withdraw from the war and returning the regions to PEACE which means dishonoring our alliances, leaving the Swiss at the mercy of PEACE and leaving PEACE empowered and emboldended to continue their previous ways. Because believe me, PEACE isn't going to stop and their certainly not going to stop when we continue to show them our divisions.
If USWP could mobilize even half their membership to fight from the comfort of their easychairs in their own home states to the level where they could use the hospitals we spent so much money building, at no wellness cost to themselves, we could overwhelm our enemies, force an end to hostilities on our terms and show that we mean what we say and will not cower and run at the first sign of difficulty.
Quick question: Since this war was passed by congress unanimously, are they to blame too, for this so called disaster? I hate when people simply rant.
No solutions posed. No sympathies mentioned. No respect given to even those who served. No knowledge of how fellow Atlantis countries are doing in the war. No understanding to the positive effects this war has given us. No mention of how the USWP is a pro-war party for the most part. No idea what you're talking about, Rocco.
I strongly disagree with what you say and think anyone who agrees with you shouldnt be in this country
First... you don't need military pay if weapons are given to you free of charge. The original idea for the pay was for you to buy your own weapons. Guess where that lead? Thats right, soldiers who had been paid multiple times PMing CO's for weapons because they blew their military pay on Lotteries and buying houses they didn't need.
Second... we are fighting from the US and have a Q5 hospital in Florida. If you lose a single point of wellness from fighting, you are an idiot. You fight 5 times, click the "heal" button, and you are right back to where you started from. There is no point in gifting anymore. All gifting means is that you can fight 6 times in a day instead of 5.
Third... If you don't think independence for a country is reason enough for war then you simply do not belong in the US. The US always has, and always will support freedom for oppressed countries 100%.
Fourth... If we end the war now we would not only violate the ATLANTIS treaty, we would basically be the jokes of the world. Not to mention a good chunk of the REAL soldiers in the country would simply pick up 2 moving tickets, leave the US, and move to a country that is still fighting.
People forget that war is NEEDED in Erep. Without war stock piles build up, companies go out of business, and citizens get bored from a lack of "excitement". If you want to argue about how much the US is spending on war, that is one thing. Arguing about the war in general though is pointless and dumb. If you don't really like it...well, try changing the minds of the 98% of congress who voted yes for it.
@ kurtbain
First Brazil and Indonesia must negociate a peace proposal with Argentina -it was Peace who started this WW, don't forget it- and then there will be peace in France. what about to have hungary back?
@benn
the only think to blame are your lies. yours and the Atlantis ones
see you
ok i am new to Erepublik, only been here a couple of days, just recahed level 5 and still confused. but this is what i have gathere😛
we invaded France to liberate Switzerland
but look, now the french want their territories back
it seems to me we have the bargaining chips already to secure the independance of the swiss.
offer the french the return of their territories for the immediate liberation of Switzerland. period.
again i am new and most likely do not understand fully the repercussions although i am not going to delve completely into my understanding of the situation for time sake.
consider it.
let me know
why would you return the french territories for nothing?
they give us leverage
makes no sense.
sander, I don't know if it will be more clear.
France will liberate the occupied territories. one by one.
and since you are weak (because you are now) you cannot give us the terms for the treaty.
so, it is simple. or you give us the territories back, or we take them.
end of story.
good luck with that 😉
peace USWP... I think I will start my own party. Gonna call it Americans with balls or da AWB. The point of this game is actually conquest.....besides how else would you level up fairly quickly without fighting. FIGHTING is the game