Grandmaster failure in USA-Pol relations – Poland raises worries, invades Mexico

Day 882, 16:06 • Published in USA USA • by Sossu

Today on day 882 Poland shocked the World as they proceed to directly declare the first war ever after their rise to become an empire and substantial baby boom during their invasion of Germany. Poland, being the most populated country in the world, has to pay a ludicrous amount of Gold to declare war as the declaration cost is based on the amount of citizens able to fight. As the new rule gives players as low as level 3 the possibility to fight, the costs of the war declaration for Poland, having to pay for 10% of their fighting population, are expected to have risen between 3000-4000 Gold.

The unfortunate nation who will face the might of the Polish armies is Mexico, who relied that their only possible attacker would be USA, who they share fairly neutral relations, and didn’t care to host a set of defensive MPP😒. Therefore Poland will get them with their pants down, accompanied with only an MPP with Malaysia. Mexico is not a member of Phoenix, but defensive MPP😒 will most likely be written as, for now, Phoenix is trying to suppress the growing might of Poland and they do not want them to success in their goals regarding Mexico.

Defences of Karnataka are weakened, invasion of Indonesia ruled out as the active MPP with Poland is abolished.

The tensions between USA and Poland regarding differences of how Eden should proceed in the fight against PHX, a catastrophic failure in Pakistan and a certain set of logs have culminated as these two superpowers have decided to drop the invaluable activated MPP against Indonesia and Russia. To me this is an unforgivable, very foolish and short-sighted act. The active MPP with Poland served as the best line of defence from Indonesia in Karnataka, and now when it is abandoned USA is left only with Croatia, who despite being fierce fighters can easily be distracted by attacks on their home soil.
The US President Woxan and the Polish President adios_pl have let the differences of their nations to grow so large it is more acceptable to weaken both countries instead of trying to replenish the harm done by some drastically overhyped logs. Or at least let the time heal the wounds. Poland and USA might be best buddies 30 days from now and we can see them already fighting shoulder to shoulder to liberate South Africa. The damage done by not signing the MPP again is irreversible and the direct consequences include the defences around Karnataka weakened + the option to carry out two great campaigns in the future, ruled out. It was like burning a lush rain forest full of defenceless kittens.

America alerted as Poland moves through Spain to attack Mexico.

The reactions of some US citizens to this tactical move have saddened me a lot. Many Americans, including Joe DaSmoe in his article, proclaimed that Poland is moving through Spain to attack the United States as promised in the National Goals for this month. However these announcers of doomsday forgot to look at the map first to see that Poland is going to the wrong direction. Attacking the United States would require swapping through the provinces of Castilla y Leon and Galicia. Instead, Poland has gone south through Andalucia and Canary Islands to wage war on Mexico and attack the very southern tip of it, the region of Southeast of Mexico.


Visual explanation of the differences between the two routes.

After noticing this, many started to fear that Mexico is a part of a Polish plot, serving as a new Kuyshu and giving Poland the chance to double whammy California and Florida at the same time. This scheme was supposedly verified as Poland is signing an MPP with Mexico so they can sneak out of the war much like Indonesia in case of failure. Well, this isn’t exactly how it goes.

The vote of MPP is actually a tactical move, preventing Mexico to propose any MPP😒 by themselves. However it does not serve any geater purpose and reaches only to be a curiosity as nearly ten Phoenix nations have already begun signing MPP😒 with Mexico. What makes it hilarious is that Poland is so strong nation that practically all of Phoenix have to sign MPP😒 with Mexico to refrain them from attacking. Signing 10 MPP😒 carries out a cost of 2000 Gold, half of what Poland spent for the war dec and Phoenix has to maintain this protection every month from now on, or at least the three big ones, Russia/Hungary/Serbia, still costing 600 G per month.

Mexico signing a crapload of powerful MPP😒 rules out the last speculations of Poland planning for an attack on the United States in the near future. The amount of paranoia reminds us however that the suspicions towards Poland after the logs released just before Presidential elections still remain, and the collaboration and forgiviness of these two great nations is still waiting to be carried out.

Sleep tight America, there is nothing to worry about.



Poland guns for High Oil.

The motive of Poland swapping through Spain is revealed to be as boring as to gain new natural resources. The oil found in Southeast of Mexico is the primary objective, and the new money drain for Phoenix comes as a side advantage.
The costs of this operation are substantial. The 4000 G DoW is very high regarding that Poland only gains oil in the process. Were Poland and USA still friends, I see no obstacle for USA to rent one of their oils to Poland in order for both nations to prosper. For instance moving Poland to Louisiana would have costed about 500G, slightly above 10% of the costs of the current invasion.
Also Poland attacking Spain deleted them from Croatia’s MPP-list against Hungary, raising the needs for Eden to get a dummy nation to swap through friendly nations in order to prevent screwing up the MPP😒 constantly.

Hopes were raised that Poland would move through Colombia either peacefully or forcefully to reach for Peru and claim it’s high iron for themselves. Poland does not have a war with them, and a new 4000g cost would be too expensive in such a short period of time. Also Colombia is signing an MPP with Serbia and more are expected to follow when Poland moves next door.

Apart from creating a moneyhole in Mexico, the headache for PHX made by this move adds up as South East of Mexico also borders Colombia. PHX has to maintain a MPP set powerful enough to refrain Poland from attacking this small nation as well and sharing the oil found from there with their Spanish allies. The peaceful continent of South America, home to many small countries under the Brazilian umbrella is now disrupted by a giant Polish middle finger right in the middle of everything.

All in all the invasion of Mexico is a new sign of Poland expressing the will of the stronger one. Mexico is a neutral country and the only reason to attack them is to claim resources. Eden never presented as world police, they have always helped countries who help Eden in some way or, in return, weaken PHX. This is however underlined today as Eden apparently does not intervene when Poland bashes their weakers and Phoenix, although unable to challenge Poland directly, is given the chance to present themselves as the good guys.