Fighting the Superalliance Paradigm YET AGAIN!

Day 2,012, 00:16 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Arjay Phoenician III

I swore to myself, when I started in this world, I was going to be different from my grandfather. He was an idealist, sometimes preachy, sometimes ridiculous in his passions, but always willing to fight the good fight. In an age where the only fights seem to be on the battlefield and no more in the newspapers and IRC and the forums, it’s probably difficult to fathom a person seeking better from self-proclaimed leaders than sarcasm and game mechanics being their excuse to act like an ass.

After tonight’s argument with AlexJ1890, the United States’ Deputy Secretary of Defense, it’s official: the apple did not fall far from the tree.



There’s a lot of people in the Bolivian community and people who fought for them yesterday who are bent out of shape that, when it looked to Paraguay like they might have a fight on their hands, suddenly the US Department of Defense issued orders for Americans to fight in Santa Cruz on behalf of their ally. We read the Paraguayan papers this morning and were galled at how they could pat themselves on the back for their victory, one that apparently required the US and half of Latin America assisting them, versus Bolivia and a handful of dedicated individuals around the world.

I get the Paraguayan false pride. I saw it when I was a newbie in Belfast, how the UK could take such pride in defeating the Irish, first in Scotland, then Northern Ireland and the rest of the island, knowing they couldn’t defeat us head-to-head, but requiring the Polish to do what they couldn’t do for themselves. Of course, in the case of the Irish, smack talk, disorganization, the unforeseeable catastrophe of Argentina folding like a pup tent, and the inability of leadership to consolidate popular support for national defense didn’t help matters at all. The point, however, is that the British patted themselves on the back for Poland doing what they themselves couldn’t. That much I understand.

What made me lose my mind today were the Americans, as proven on the US DOD’s orders article for Day 2,011, taking pride in an action that (hopefully just momentarily) squashed Bolivian independence. I know, most Americans couldn’t give a good god damn why they were asked to fight in Paraguay, orders are orders. However, I do expect a national defense minister to understand the situation before he gives nationwide orders.

It’s unfortunate that this is a world where the highest level of honor is contained in the phrase, WE FIGHT FOR OUR ALLIES. It’s such a short-sighted phrase, knowing the nature of alliances in this game is so volatile. It requires absolutely no thought at all to follow the axiom, to give credence to another country simply because they paid their share of an MPP, or whatever they’re calling it these days. How many times have we seen alliances shift? How many times have allies betrayed one another? How many allies today were enemies yesterday and will be enemies tomorrow? Alliances change with the wind. We know this to be true.

And yet, it seems to be the highest form of honor a country can show on an international level.

You would think, at some time, after dealing with the treachery of allies and renigging on promise after promise, the powers that be would try a different paradigm. This world is nearly six years old, and still no one can come up with anything better than WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR ALLY BECAUSE THEY PAID US TO AND WE WILL DO SO UNTIL THEY INEVITABLY BETRAY US, NO MATTER HOW VILE AN ENEMY THEY WERE IN THE PAST.

It’s this lunacy that I tried to show Alex. Unfortunately, if all you’ve been spoonfed since you were born is that only game mechanics count, the ends always justify the means, might always makes right, and your job is just to go along to get along, I’m sure what I said sounded Martian. You’re welcome to read it for yourselves, it was posted on the US Forum, and I warn you ahead of time, I get pretty heate😛

http://eusaforums.com/forum/index.php/topic,26340.0

I don’t expect a kid from a superpower to think outside the box they put him in. This game is quite a bit different, depending on the country you’re in. Living in the US or Poland or Brazil, semi-stable nations that can throw their weight recklessly around and not have to care, is drastically different than living in Ireland or Bolivia, where we’re thankful just to have a single region to call a homeland and establish a Congress. They take so much for granted, they don’t understand how their actions have consequences elsewhere. It’s an arrogance they can get away with. For what can a guy like me do but complain?



This is the very thing my grandfather jumped into. More like cannonballed. I did not want this, but apparently I couldn’t help myself.