Romanian-Bulgarian diplomacy

Day 782, 06:22 • Published in Romania Croatia • by John_the_Brave
"[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners." ( Terry Pratchett )


Now that the war is over it’s time to gather together around the table and discuss.
I don’t want to repeat here the reasoning behind the war. I will just resume by saying that even though both communities benefited from this experience, I would have preferred this war not to have happened.
Now the great battle is over and I think it is the perfect moment to start a civilized discussion between today’s enemies.

There is no need for trolling articles or RL insults. These are childish ways that only damage your own country’s e-reputation.We have a lot to gain by simple talking, free of the stupid RL stereotypes.

So I will start by putting an equal sign between the Romanian user and the Bulgarian user. It happens that now Romania is much stronger. If it wouldn’t have been, I have no doubt Bulgaria would have conquered Romanian regions without thinking twice. Because this is a game, and fighting is a normal and perfectly understandable thing because it generates fun. Imagine how boring the e-World will be if it will consist only in numbers.. That is, if it would be a genuine economic simulator.
So let’s agree on this point, Imperialism in this game is a lot different than RL imperialism. Even so, everybody has a right to live in their own country and form a community.
Now that the swords clash has ended, revealing, for the moment, who’s the stronger one.. it’s time to gather to talk. Today Romania is stronger.. who knows what future brings to Bulgaria?

As for concrete measures to begin a RO-BG cooperation, I am thinking about this:
- Starting working together does not imply forcing the other side to change sides.
- Bulgaria recently had a small babyboom. Most of them were born in Sofia, an important region for the Bulgarian people. It is however predictable that many will leave the game in the current circumstances. Freeing Sofia, and consequently the other regions of no strategic importance ( I suspect Romania will continue to launch blocking attacks over the ‘Serbian’ regions ( originally Bulgarian ) ) would be essential to starting 1 to 1 debates on equal ground.
Once we reach a more calm tone, Romania may even help the Bulgarian ‘babies’ survive the first days or help rebuild the destroyed infrastructure.
- A NAP ( non-aggression pact ) to be discussed among the two countries. Which would put a real end to the current war.
There probably are more measures to be taken into consideration with the aim of establishing friendlier relations between countries. Come forth and name them 🙂.

I will end with a short story, that probably won’t ever repeat but still it’s worth to be mentioned. A very long time ago, e-Norway, at that time the most powerful country, conquered e-Finland. Some time passed and a small Finnish babyboom occurred. But surprise surprise, by that time users from both countries were already on ‘friendly’ mode. So it happens that, with intense help from Norway, ( by that times walls were a lot higher -> from a relative point of view, the average strength was a lot smaller ) e-Finland was freed. Afterwards the two countries continued having very close relations.
More recently (this year 😛 ) Norway was saved from a Russian wipe-out by the same Finland 😃.
The point I am trying to make with this story is that ‘hate’ doesn’t not have to be the immediate result of a war. If we can’t become friends (somewhere in the distant future) we should at least learn to respect each other. This goes for any Hungarian reader as well 😛

John_the_Brave
Just a soldier in the Romanian Army