Final Chapter of this Divine Comedy

Day 2,024, 04:56 • Published in India Canada • by Alias Vision

The 5th has finally arrived and as a great liberator it officially releases me from this hell we call the CP chair. And hell it was.

My critics can now crow to their heart's content. Not only was my time as CP not successful, it will be rather easy to argue it may even have been one of the worse.

This is not me playing the victim but rather putting the facts up against the harsh light of day. To be successful, you have to leave the place a better one than what you found when you took over.

India does not have more regions.
India does not have more allies.
India is not closer to being accepted in a major alliance.
Indians are not more unified.

Pretty damning report card. Actually, judging by the early returns and the 75% support until now for Uv Ajed, maybe Indians finally are more unified. It would be ironic that one of the goals achieved during my Presidency was achieved in the last way I would have wished it to happen.

My story as CP of India is really a story of the past three months. I first attempted to help during the Alector administration where we were left without leadership. I provided leadership then and proposed a road map to follow. However, I was not an elected official and anyone talking to me (admin to foreigners) would only do so to a certain extent. They didn't want to give time to someone who could not guarantee results.

They were proven right in their caution when Hamturk took over and didn't keep anything from Alector's short time in power. Hamturk, for all of his qualities, is also a one man show. He followed his own counsel and forged his own path. Which is fine until the time when he resigns... then there is again, no road map and a lot of confusion. This time foreigners would tell me that things change too much in India and they wouldn't talk to me until there was more stability.

Finally, I was elected CP. Surely I could now make progress right? I put a lot of hours initially to make it so. I tried to pull in the people who were active and convince those that said they didn't have time to donate a little bit of it. Then I made the Albanian deal and committed the cardinal sin of having friends say they thought I had the potential of being one of the best CPs India would have. Those two elements together was enough to motivate a group of people to ensure that whatever else happened in the following month, success would not be one of them.

The lies and half-truths did their work. Some nations that had been very open to talks stopped returning messages. Others became a lot harder to contact. My motivation tanked. Whereas before I would return to a problem day after day until I had an acceptable answer, I now would only return once... or not at all. When the leader loses his motivation, it isn't long before the people working with him sense that and react consequently. By the end of this month, everyone got too busy or too distracted. Things in India ground to a halt.

If you want to attack me for something, then attack me for that. The first responsibility of a leader is to motivate his team. I didn't do this and by the end of the month I didn't have much of a team either.

There were plans in place, there once was progress made. I find it amusing to hear echoed in Uv Ajed's FA article what I'd stated a month earlier. I'm the man who had no plan but he will try to do exactly the same thing I set out to achieve. If he is successful I will clap for him and congratulate him. I know the mountain there is to climb and whoever reaches the top of it will have well earned his laurels.

I accept the responsibility of the deals I made. I accept the fact that ultimately a CP is judged by the results he delivers. It is my personal belief that had some things been managed a little differently that India today would have one less invader... maybe two.

After all the days and all the hours... there is finally only one thing that I regret. I regret the personal investment of time I made with certain individuals. Friendship is never something I would use for manipulation and satisfying personal ambitions. Throughout this process I never misrepresented myself and even less misrepresented others (although the temptation was great more than once). If this month was hell, it was only because things that should have been more important than the game were allowed to manipulate the game.

I don't lie, it isn't worthwhile. If you wanted to know exactly what I thought, all you had to do was ask.

So I leave the CP position with India at a crossroads. Does it have the maturity to see the path needed to take the be a better ally? Does it have the spirit necessary to become the team it needs to be?

There is only one way that India will be successful and that is with absolute unity of purpose and effort. If even one major player positions himself or herself against that, events are doomed to keep the nation oppressed.

With that being said, it is time for me to find my unity of purpose and a team as well. For the last time... I respectfully say farewell and wish India better tomorrows.