Sense and Sensibility (And Slovenians)
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by Penguin4512
Trust is an icky thing to deal with. Especially when it comes to rapidly changing administrations and situations which are different from day to day.
On the verge of a new breakthrough in diplomacy efforts, there is a surprisingly vocal amount of criticism. "Puppet!" some cry. Others claim the deal is a blow to Swiss pride. But the most worrying was the intense backlash against the Congress deal. After such a brief sip of freedom, the following reconquest of Romandie left hopes shattered.
No wonder then that trust has become such a focal point. "Can we trust Slovenia?" is the question echoing among Swiss citizens. "Will this deal be the one that works?"
Every major Slovenian deal in the past has failed. I left this game a few months ago after my successor, GoranJ, had just helped liberate one of Switzerland's regions with approval of the Slovenian government. It was the perfect happy ending.
I returned a week ago to find that the deal had fallen through sometime afterwards and Switzerland had been once again invaded and subsequently occupied.
What makes this deal different?
The truth is that there are only two options for us as a country. Whether or not we trust Slovenia or not, we have to negotiate with them for freedom. If the deal falls through, try again next week.
The other option, as some profusely proclaim, is to maintain our pride and fight our occupiers. The most recent justifications for this has been the cries of "Puppet!" That apparently, by putting ourselves back on the map we are somehow losing our soveirgnity. I won't begin to address the flaws in that argument, but trust me readers there are many.
A less capable Swiss government would flounder in face of the unexpected resistance. When we are this close to a potential liberation, whether temporary OR permanent, who would object?
At this point, the most dangerous thing to Swiss freedom is the paranoia of the Swiss citizens themselves. But Borgogian and his ministers have deftly navigated the critics and naysayers. And all the well. This deal could potentially be the one that brings the era to the end of Swiss occupation.
When asked "How can we trust Slovenia?" Monsieur Guillotine responded, "How can Slovenia trust us?"
How indeed.
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The Governement received unanimous support from the Congress. This is already cheerful news!
Excellent article my friend !
I will shout it for you.
Let me say here, that the first betrayers of the agreement we have made with Slovenia, and thus the betrayers of our freedom are:
Dr.Pain
Goranj
They have supported a RW in Romandie and have threatened our diplomatic efforts.
I am ashamed of them and in their lack of faith.
Cool Cool, still needs moar ice cream
vote, if i would be in goverment, i would agree with partial free Switzerland.
i would agree for organised training war win/win
Vote + Sub for ice cream
"i would agree for organised training war win/win"
Excuse me when I say hell no. This is not a win/win situation at all. I think "training war" is just a nicer phrase than "we want to rape you for your resources war".
There is no such thing as partial freedom. It is all or nothing. Right now we have nothing. The thing that angers me about that is our own government thinks that is fine! They're relieved to finally have all of this over, when it isn't over at all!
"This deal could potentially be the one that brings the era to the end of Swiss occupation."
This deal will never bring the era of Swiss occupation to a close. This deal is putting the end of this era just where we can see it, but can't reach it. It is an illusion.
The Slovenians will give us all of our regions when the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. They'll give them to us when mountains turn to dust and the oceans dry over. They'll give them to us when the sun freezes over and when the ice caps turn to fire.
tl;dr: They won't give them to us. Abandon this deal and continue to fight.
@chasaj...
haven't you ever heard of progress ?
has anything worthwhile happened overnight ?
let's make this agreement and then you can run for CP and do everything better.
EVERYONE, PLEASE CALM DOWN.
Listen to me, for a minute, please.
What has eSwitzerland been doing for months? We have tried to fight against a giant, and have failed MISERABLY. Do you call it "pride" when you are fighting a useless battle? I do not. I call it pride if you are willing to accept circumstances and thinking outside the box to solve the solution for the greater good of your people.
Diplomacy is the ONLY policy. What have we to lose? We get a region and a Training War... do you call that prideless? I call it progress, something that will benefit all Swiss citizens.
If you do not like this deal, tell me why. Fake pride is meaningless to me, since our country is not gaining anything by increasing tensions with our neighbors... and constantly being occupied.
Please, think about that guys. 🙂
Yours Truly,
Monsieur Guillontine
Ich unterstüze Chasaj,wir sind nicht der Aggressor für niemand
After looking at some other arguments, you seem to have won me over but I still think we'll never be able to trust Slovenia.
You're right- this deal is the only option. They will decide to dump it eventually, though. It'll be going swell until a war lover is elected as president and breaks it.
But as I/you said, it is our only option. So I guess we'll just try to make something of it until it is over. Hopefully by then Italy will be liberated and we'll have no more borders ;P
thank you chasaj
thank you Monsieur Guillontine
thank you Rican
Thank you for Rican for calling em a traitor but not bothering to contact me personally.
If my support for Switzerland is not wished any longer i can get the hint.
hey Doc... we HAVE been in communication by PM.
you know the situation as well as i do, if not better.
WE DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT YOU TO LEAVE. EVERYBODY RESPECTS YOU.
Please don't overreact.
It's simple, SLP wanted always fight against the world. They wanted be imperialiste like Pascal always wished. They wanted destroy other eCountries to have fun. Now, you have fun and the result of this anti-neutrality policy: Totally occupation of eSwitzerland. Bravo, SLP = politicy of self destruction xD