Balance and tommorow's world powers
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by Thomas Fairfax
Swords and Ploughshares - A polemical rag of the worst kind
Diverse columns march on the great states of north america, the nations of PEACE fly their flags triumphantly from the spires, and the Atlantis collaborator states shake at the fall of their protector. A high point for PEACE and world concorde no doubt, but Swords and Ploughshares worries that this is, indeed, also the high water mark. Since PEACE has existed, Atlantis has stood against it. Was this a necessary balance?
The Dutch people need no reminder of the excesses of Atlantis aggression, since the United States sullied our fields and furrows with the mark of hobnail boots. The French too have lived in the aftermath of American attempted invasion. But PEACE has waged its own wars. PEACE the liberator may be a concept lost on Australians, on South Africans, on the people of Japan. When Atlantis is truly gone, where will the new wars be fought? We tolerate Indonesia's guns and bombs out of sight, until indeed, they are turned on us and our friends.
The United Netherlands is but a small nation in the world, a potential pawn of unscrupulous powers. Without balance, in the absence of an opposite to greet us with "my enemy's enemy is my friend", it is states like our United Netherlands that will fall prey to the boredom of powerful neighbours.
When the world hegemony of PEACE fragments, as tommorow it is likely to do, who will our friends be? Now is the time to decide. Who will we run to when our neighbours betray us? That will be the time, this newspaper worries, that we will lament the loss of America, Canada, Atlantis - and the balance of the powers.
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>> Since PEACE has existed, Atlantis has stood against it.
PEACE was at first established to counter the might of Atlantis and to protect the little countries. PEACE changed from defensive to somewhat more offensive when it became clear that conquering other nations was sometimes needed to achieve the bigger goals.
Which neighbours would betray us?
I can understand why you think this. No empire lasts forever and although I do not see our neighbours betray us, it might be possible in the far future that some nations might try to conquer a little bit more on their own.
However I fail to see this as a threat to the United Netherlands. The Hungarians have always been trusty friends and allies and so are the Indonesians. I do not know much about the Russians (they are on the rise) but even if they had wrong intentions they would have to cross a lot of Europe before getting to us.
On thing I will certainly not lament is the fall of eAmerica, regardless of the consequences. I love to wipe the arrogant smug of their faces and I will not stop untill a mountain of e-skulls replace the Washington Monument (only in this game 😉 )
"PEACE was at first established to counter the might of Atlantis"
So the statement is true then. As long as there has been PEACE there has been Atlantis too. Whether the one was established to counter the other doesent alter the truth of the statement. PEACE was probably established with better faith, but it needs something to stand against, or else it will become more and more like Atlantis, or it will fragment.
"On thing I will certainly not lament is the fall of eAmerica"
Me neither of course, war is a big part of the game and the Americans have been asking for it for ages now. I suppose ultimately, i am curious to see what happens in the future and looking forward to it even if it is fragmentation of PEACE.