Relax..
Sweet Drinker
eSouth Korea's active voting population dips below 100 ppl
They have 3MPP's:
Japan which is almost as small as they are
Germany which is a member of OUR alliance
Ukraine are proSirius, which is a partner alliance to ours
There is no threat of eSK & her 3 small to mid weight MPP's occupying
eIreland & her 8 MPP's ranging from mid to Titan class. And a Star Destroyer
There is so much 'not a threat' of eSK staying here against our will that:
There isn't even a threat of them staying here with our blessing.
A country their/our size simply cannot occupy foreign soil even as part of a rental agreement for any real duration. It cannot be done. We can be avenues of joint alliance operations, as we recently were in central Europe. But when that operation is no longer a major alliance objective, our excursions are over.
Countries our size receive preferential treatment from Medal Hunters..
"Easy pickings" as they say...
Even under an amicable occupation the RW's will come.
Come often.
Come at unexpected & inconvenient times.
eSK is not strong enough to reliably defeat Medal Hunters. They would often need to erode their not sizable reserves to hold regions.
They'd have to deal with all of that even under the best of circumstances, which these are not.
Because Taiwan is not going to want a functioning eSK government that's able to do stuff. Taiwan is going to want eSK wiped again.
Are they going to blow a $hit-ton of cash and supplies to AS onto our island and cause us a bunch of trouble?
pfft! Why waste all that resource when they can just launch an Irish RW, or watch for one that eSK already looks weak in, and push it over the edge?
Is Taiwan going get an ally to NE us?
That'd be Canada. I think it's pretty clear at this point that USA isn't going to allow Canada regions anywhere if they can help it. Canada would only suffer the same RW plague that eSK will. Only more coordinated by USA's mobiles. It's not a great move for Canada tbh. And they do enjoy a lot of Irish goodwill.
Is Taiwan going to get some small nation to AS us by proxy?
Just maybe? That sounds like a bit of fun tbh!
The South Koreans aren't stupid. They know this is very temporary.
But even if they're only here for 1day, they will permanently deny a rival revenue, and remove tax restrictions that are basically murderous to new players.
They've got about 600k in their treasury, and they'll have blown what other money they have scraped together just to get here. How hard you want to gouge these guys?
So, why are people acting like this was some huge spur of the moment decision with major longterm repercussions?
It's a tiny decision spurred by the eSK's belief that this was an opportune moment, in coordination with an eJapanese drain RW.
It's a fast response to an international strategy with very limited repercussions.
The result of having an active executive branch.
The kind of move we should be proud of imo.
And there is no guarantee they can even get here.
tl;dr
Why so fkn serious?
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Two people openly reject this move. Not a lot giving we're a 150+ country.
Onward from here.
Good read but the article needs more Daffy Duck Sweet, your getting lazy.
We are overdue for a grumpy old men article. I love reading those.
GoM's are for overarching principles or direct threats to our security.
The whole point of this article is that this "eSK AS scandal" is basically a nonevent in eIrish history. So it doesn't make the GoM file.
I understand that this topic was not a GoM article. I was just saying that I'm looking forward to the next one... whenever it may be published.
"Daffy" was when I was young
"Banker Scrooge" was when I became an economic force
"Boxer Scrooge" was the addition of military prowess
Dunno where the next change will come from.
But pants are strictly prohibited
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sorted
lol!
unfortunately he has pants Hank
If I ever put the pants back on I'm doomed
Well said, but unfortunately South Korea (due being unable to NE Taiwan first) needs to win in their battle against Taiwan in order for the Airstrike to continue. Regardless of our activities at home, Taiwan has pulled out the stocks to make sure South Korea lose their only region before the Airstrike can succeed.
they have 1360 people who will vote if u dont have congess
yes for once sweet is true they wont hold the 5 days we should alll have concentrated on keeping their regions and extending them beyond RW range. if they had all of their regions 5 or 6 ROC couldnt re-occupy them before congress. Yet again Seanan our Mod shows her strategical inability. but ROC Might go after them and then we have trouble. You dont bring foreign battles to your own shore 😒trategy101
5 days would been enough to secure them a Dail. But as you asked, we supported a 2nd RW, and it failed... but the idea of you quivering at RoC going after us lol
I understand some Irish opinion ain't comfortable with leasing regions under any circumstances, but afraid of a fight? Ridiculous. If RoC attacked us, we'd drive them into the sea with a cheerful tune.
we couldnt even drive a nation of hamsters into the sea with you at the helm..lass....BUUURRRRNNNN!!!
Seanan talking about driving someone into a see....
Same Seanan who as MoD won zero battles against british invaders and was not able to take a region that was given back.
You are useful to Ireland as tapeworm Seanan....
The one positive from this mess would have been a RoC counter-AS.... 😛
TLDR: Why so serious?
Answer: At least tell us when you're going to rent regions, preferably let us vote. Not a difficult request. A CP report with no details and other issues is a shitty means of communicating a major policy, and doing so when it's far too late for any opinion to be worth expressing is more so. And it was a major policy, because we had to fight, we had to give up regions and there was money involved.
Nothing to do with constitutions, bureaucracy or law, unlike that article from Seanan suggested, it's a matter of information and opinion. Keeping everyone informed, and letting them have a say, is just good policy. The best policy where getting cooperation for these matters is.
For once i agree with this human
There's about 150actives in Ireland.
Probably 50 of which are in the government pm's that agreed to this.
There's like 17 extra ppl in the MU thread also.
So almost 1/2 our population was informed directly by PM
Honestly Brian. most ppl think you're just mad cause you personally didn't know about it, and having a game career based mainly in FA's, that's uncomfortable for you.
There is a great deal of overlap between Cabinet, Congress and MUs, and the MUs were more likely told rather than asked. If you want to rally a country to a cause where sacrifices are going to be made in territorial and damage terms, the way the government handled it was dead wrong right up until An Sluagh published his article. Had he published, or more appropriately, had Mirek published that article as soon as the issue came up, it would have been different. Public debate is also far better than disconnected PMs, and the other half of the country aren't peasants undeserving of a say either.
Congress is a clique, given to strife over nothing at one moment and horrendous groupthink at another. If it was felt that there was no chance for a referendum, and a delay was unacceptable, the President should have immediately made a direct appeal to the people in an article. There would have been more than enough time for that at least, and the backroom nonsense could have been avoided. That's how Labour has done it in the past, and we were widely respected for it.
I'm not above admitting I took it personally, and for the reason you say. Given that many involved are people I consider friends and close political allies, I found it to be a breach of trust. From the response I've been getting, many seem to have taken my opposition to how this played out extremely personally as well. However, it's far from unknown for me to take strong stands on principle. Labour wouldn't exist if I lacked that reputation.
That's not to say that my reputation made Labour, rather a stand on principle on my part started it. And everyone else in the party have taken similar stands on key issues before in the past.
I don't think your friends deliberately excluded you from this operation.
It seems more like they (like myself) didn't view this as a big deal.
Neither did anyone in the Executive.
Or a single member of Congress apparently.