The Economist ~ Notes on Canada's choices

Day 2,270, 11:00 Published in Poland United Kingdom by Spite313


Dear friends,


I’m writing today about a country we all know and love, Canada. Neighbours to the UK, Spain and Poland they have often been known to land on the Welsh coast to have a romp round the English countryside before being evicted. They even wiped us once I believe.


I’m writing this article primarily in response to an article by the incoming Canadian CP Rylde. The article, called “Rylde 4 CP & 30 days of war”, is remarkably short and has one message - Canada will be at war all through his term and he is a war leader. Apart from the obvious fact that last time he was CP he ended up putting things in motion that got Canada wiped, I just want to point out one thing:

Canada doesn’t have to be at war with anyone.


Let me put it this way Canada. Poland really don’t care either way about you. Spain similarly. Your Southern neighbours are a wee bit annoyed about that inadvisable Serbian MPP, but they don’t hate you. And of course the UK, your ‘enemy’ in all of this, had been gradually building relations with Canada right up until you got bored and pressed the button, trashing your foreign policy.



Who knew they were amphibious?


Now personally I was pretty mad at the time, I’m not going to lie. I thought we were getting along ok, and the attack (and the timing with other countries) meant that we lost bonuses for quite a while and faced a genuine risk of wipe. I thought that was pretty un-neighbourly of you. But what was built in months can’t be destroyed overnight.


Canada, wiped and with the threat of a long term wipe, could have talked it’s way out of it’s predicament. Yet from the start, it seems talking and negotiation was not on the table. The only option was the “Rylde option”, to attack and keep attacking until eventually, after presumably months, you get free. Now this is stupid on two counts. Firstly because why fight for something you could get for free. Secondly because in doing so you are making yourselves the willing puppets of a country which sees you as nothing more than a convenient distraction for their actual enemy. I know that, because if I were them I’d be doing exactly the same.


Now if you want to douse yourselves in Maple Syrup, raise the war-Moose standard and bash your head against Poland’s ankle for the next month feel free. But if you’d rather talk about things, about mistakes made, and build a new foreign policy for Canada that involves you having fun (I’m not a pacifist) without that fun being limited to the rather narrow band of resisting occupation, you know where I am.


Iain