Burnt offerings...

Day 1,045, 06:45 • Published in India Germany • by Iseutz
Truly the Gods savour sacrifice
But swell not too much Their holocausts
Lest you wake Their greed
And They devour the world...

Originally i thought to publish my shadow cabinet today, but watching the latest events and the legion of trolls marching through, i think it's more interesting to give some insights, how i evaluate the current status of Indias international relationships.



India
Indias infestation with PTO attemps is a long story, but i'm not interested in doing history lessons. Instead i want you to realize the two reasons, why these attempts occour.

First, the low number of loyal citizens (means eIndians, who have the citizenship, because they are rl-Indians or foreigners, who are working for Indias interests and none other). It's no news that a low number of citizens makes it easy to generate overwhelming numbers of votes by TOers. Either because of excellent planning (what i really admire and respect as an achievment in a game) or by creating multiple accounts respectively using an already existing botnet (what i consider as an attack on the game itself, undermining the whole process of fair competition between human players and therefore deliberately destroying the game in the long shot).

Second, the choice to be an independent, neutral country. As a weak and underdeveloped country in this game, eIndia has neither the raw power (economically, military) nor the elaborated structures in organization and knowledge, which are crucial to swim with the big sharks. In other words, we can't truly realize what we claim to be, we are not independent and we can't avoid to work with the big alliances. No matter how often the words are repeated, the facts draw a different picture.

As far as i have witnessed the events in eIndia for the last few months, the governments seemed to haven't realized what they can do and demand on the international stage, with the result of confusing and annoying decisions. But it is no surprise, because weakness plus neutrality means, you are alone and everything you get, depends on what others are willing to give you. All eIndia has done in the last time is to get benefit of the conflict between EDEN and Phoenix, but never be to far dragged into it. Of ourse the alliances aren't idiots, so they turned the tables and forced eIndia to cooperate. Once USA, then Serbia and who knows who will be the next one. Maybe even Pakistan with the support of the US Dioists.

What eIndia has to understand, that the alliances don't accept the idea of neutrality. If you aren't on their side, you're an enemy. And if you're weak, they don't bother to convince you, but use you as a chess piece in their global struggle for dominance.



eUSA
The relationship to eUSA is delicate, because of different influences and experiences. A long time ago, eUSA 'freed' Karnataka from eIndonesia and helped eIndia to gain more control over their original regions. Their price was to keep Karnataka, what is ok, because they did what eIndia could't do itself. It is not condemnable to get some profit out of a good deed. And as they helped together with the croats to keep eIndia un-PTOed by pro-PEACE/Phoenix agents, there was even less reason to demand to leave eIndia. But this good deeds turned bitter, when official contracts were set null and void and eUSA wasn't force to pay rent or leave, because noone could assert our claims. Also, the US government did nothing to improve the situation, instead eIndians had to read many insults against them, without any rational reason.

These tensions have risen further. Although eUSA left eIndia a while ago, they obviously didn't change their attitide towards us. The demonstration of this attitude wasn't a long time in the coming. The land-swap with eSerbia was enough to insult a whole country and it's players in worst way and with big hullabaloo. Losing their influence in the region, some US players decided to highjack ePakistan, another weak country. This wasn't only of strategic interest, but also result in a new threatening situation towards eIndia.

Now eUSA has decided, they want MPP for another month, because they must have recognized, that they are losing their grip on eIndia. There are some more active players around than a few months ago and we have started to build a suitable government. Of course, there is still a long and hard way to go. But such a government means more self-confidence and therefore the chance for rearrangement of international relationships.

This chance is threatening the situation of EDEN in whole asia, especially if there is no other PTO attempt by pro-Phoenix forces. When eCroatia did everything to help eIndia and therefore deserve our friendship and cooperation, eUSA (especially their politicians and their unleashed, uncontrolled troll brigades) did everything to destroy our tenuos relationship with EDEN. Their present surge of new mockery and insults subverting the already doubted relations even more.



And now?
Whoever will become the next president has to deal with this situation. In my mind there is no chance, we could be neutral anymore. Because with neutrality decisionmaking is a mine field and we hardly get access to battles, markets and - more important than everything else - knowledge. We don't have to decide in haste, but at least we should begin to actively evaluate our options.

I'm so sorry for the wall of text 😁
Iseutz


PS: I've simplified some of the events, if there are indecisive statements, please don't mind to comment and call me an idiot. But you have to wait in line!
PPS: No beer and tv makes Homer go crazy! Also, not getting some interesting pictures between the passages -.-