Operation:Belgian Waffle, Why?
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by Timrugbyflanker
When eUSA liberated eGreece and eIsrael, that gave every one of us a good feeling. And I admit, I have not been looking into Netherlands politics previous to this mission so I followed orders and didn't care. Reading their newspapers now, however, shows me that this attempted "liberation of Belgium" was completely and utterly a false move. The Belgian Party owns 44.44% of congress, heck maybe even more after today. The Netherlands and that area are used to living in harmony, with multiple languages in multiple dialects living with one another. Flemish, French speaking Hollanders, Dutch speaking Hollanders, Belgians.
This all begs the question....why? I saw no mass newspaper writings about FREE BELGIUM. The only newspaper articles I saw were "Preserve the Union!" and "Fight Green!". This was like trying to liberate Minnesota or something, they did not want it. I understand the military can not have full disclosure, but this was a pretty weak thing to do seeing as those citizens are happy with what they have and are not damaging us in anyway.
We aren't in ATLANTIS anymore, so why do we have to keep grinding this axe for all the PEACE GC nations? We need to start being diplomatic and well liked and appreciated instead of going around angering whole countries and FAILING at those missions too!
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Two small countries can be TOd easier. This is why they wanted a union.
And this is why eUSA wants two tiny countries... You can never know when you need the regions on your side.🙂
It does indeed look like a really bad piece of foreign policy: unwelcome interference in the affairs of another country, spamming their media with idiotic comments, spending taxpayers' money and then failing to win the two battles. It makes us look stupid.
If we are to make bold moves, we need to make sure we at least win.
I'm sure eUSA had plans with that region. Maybe they wanted to use that territory or other territories to block a 3rd country, maybe they want to seperate small nations from PEACE, or they needed the land to start military operations, or it was only a diversion.
When you liberated Greece your media was full of with articles, why you did that, news were about honor, fairplay, freedom. But this time nothing. No word about the reason, about honor. It would have been hard to mention freedom this time. Your governemnt tries to keep these operations in the background.
When Hungary tried to liberate ESerbia your military fought with Croatians, against the freedom of a nation. Have you heard anything about it?
New battle:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/battles/show/6783" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/battles/show[..]/6783
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We aren't in ATLANTIS anymore, so why do we have to keep grinding this axe for all the PEACE GC nations? We need to start being diplomatic and well liked and appreciated instead of going around angering whole countries and FAILING at those missions too!
I liked this part most of your article...
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More bad foreign policy from the guys in charge. However, the fault falls on the citizens for electing these strategically challenged individuals.
Belgian Waffle - lol
good point, I assume there was a bigger plan, but who knows? Like Scrab's big thing the reasoning might be given to the American people long after PEACE figured it out.
PEACE is still our enemy, but I don't think we should just attack any PEACE nation. My guess is that it would have to do with creating a buffer, but then why weren't our allies who border them involved. It would have made much for sense for us to support a direct attack on those regions.
"When eUSA liberated eGreece"
so USA alone liberated Greece??
F...ing selfish stupid american people ;/
Any plans with a newly separated belgian region would've failed, because we (France) would never allow such a threat to be present at our borders. I think it was an act of diversion. What was the real main target? That, I don't know of. You should ask your congressmen, they're probably debating the cause of the assault on the United Neth.
Belgium and NL had a merger. "liberating" Belgium eh?