The Way I See It
Joe DaSmoe
Americans, we are in a tough tough spot.
Our enemies have us surrounded and outgunned, our nation's leadership is in turmoil, our economy is faltering. We face challenges that I don't know can be overcome. We have lost most of the western states and the eastern half isn't looking much good either. We are down to 33 regions with no sign of the onslaught letting up. Despite our many MPP's and military funding, we face a well organized, super funded, multiple front attack, and hey lets be honest here, it ain't lookin good.
I still say BRING IT. I would rather die with my boots on than give up. America DOES NOT surrender. I refuse to out like chump and if we sign this BS treaty, I am at the very least leaving America, if not quitting the game all together.
I read the leaked cease fire/surrender treaty and as an American, I am sick over it. I would rather eDie then give California and Hawaii away and pay 250 gold per region to get the others back. If the evil empire of PEACE wants to totally annihilate us, then screw it. I say we fight until its done. If we lose every region then so be it. I would rather the eCountry that is America not exist at all than be a colony pawn of PEACE. They may take our lands, but they cannot take our people, they cannot break our spirit.
Lets write our chapter in the pages of eHistory by going down swinging, not going out like a bitch.
"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots."
--Thomas Jefferson--
"The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American."
--Thomas Jefferson--
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
--Napoleon Bonaparte--
"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."
--George William Curtis--
"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."
--William Faulkner--
Its not how hard ya can hit kid..... Its how hard you can get hit and keep on fighting"
--Rocky Balboa-- Lol, since I know how much the PEACE guys like ole' Sly.
Also...
I wanna make a small statement here about the departure of my good friend Eugene Harlot. He is among several friends of mine who have left the game, of them all, his departure pains me the most. Harlot molded our military, he was our first true military leader and a great friend and ally to me, eRepublik related and not.
Here's one last cold one for you my friend, from us all. O7
AMERICA FOREVER, AMERICA AT HOME!!!!
Comments
i don't see anything O_o
oh, now i do.
We aint going out like that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7RBZ-aLs00" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7RBZ-aLs[..]aLs00
Agreed Joe, you completely turned my faltering hopes in America around.
PEACE will WIN
It's only the question of time.
America will be in ruin and none will stop that.
We took out Kansas so you can use your two forts theory again!
nice article:
US flag - check
Sly - check
BS patriotism - check
no real solution - check
Peace at Home.
Peace in the World.
THE WAY I SEE IT
"We’re surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them."- COLONEL LEWIS "CHESTY" PULLER (Nov. 1950)
SEMPER FI DO OR DIE
OORAH
good job joe
You can always move to Aussie 🙂
Great economy best Decission i ever made 🙂
Come and move to the Down and Under 🙂
I knew you loved Stallone Zoli, I knew it! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOL
Bring it all or nothing baby, all or nothing
Amen!!
Give PEACE the everlasting finger it deserves!
Your daily dosis of Peace propaganda:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/colonisation--878265/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/colo[..]1/20
We're not attacking. We're recoloising.
Ain't gonna be no rematch!
GIVE PEACE TO USA
That "treaty" would have made us the eRepublik version of RL Vichy France. No Deal.
Yeah, we've had some bad days.
I'm most discouraged to see Americans fighting amongst ourselves and pointing fingers. This is the time to unite in a common cause.
PEACE is jubilant right now, and trolling our articles with self-congratulatory messages. That's fine.
But this isn't over yet.
Real Americans keep fighting.
No surrender.
Live Free or Die.
JBB
Sigh, fighting till the end is brave and all that, but in the end you are providing PEACE with training wars, High raw material regions, and hundreds if not thousands of gold each day on taxes through the regions they have conquered. All that for what, a measly 5.000 Gold and two regions?
How much Gold has the United States wasted on trying to defend their regions so far? Probably around the region of 50.000+. The US will lose much more trying to fight till the end than simply accepting it's been outmanned, outgunned and outsmarted by PEACE. Is the US leadership really going to let their pride and ego stand in the way of what's best for the American citizens?
You might think there's honour in keeping on fighting. Let me tell you something, there is no honour in fighting till the end, as the fighting is mostly one sided. This is not a war, it's a massacre of epic proportions. The current administration and military command is inept and has no ability whatsoever to properly lead a country like the United States. Only way things are going to change for the better is when the US puts this war behind them and have a change of leadership, leadership that actually knows how to execute a proper foreign affairs policy and strategic plans.
OORAH!!!
To the last man!
Hey if we lose in the eWorld, we'd still dominate the world in real life, here's to America.
Over? Did you say over? It's not over until we say it is!! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?! HELL NO! And it ain't over now!
-Animal House
@ Wade Seagrave
Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? You have a very different history book than mine dear chap. You probably mean the Japanese, as the Germans came nowhere near Pearl Harbor...
"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither"
and habraka, it's a quote from a movie, and it's meant as a joke.
This is exactly why we need a complete change in leadership. The old guard like Joe here and those in power are out of touch with reality. They'd rather destroy the US than let someone else have a go at running things. That's selfish. Make peace and leave, you've failed and don't deserve to destroy the US to prove a point.
Bart Johnson
I run NOTHING, I hold no offical position in the President's administration, Im not in Congress, Im not even an officer in the Marines anymore. I'm not out of touch, Im just not a pussy.
You wanna live in half a country? a colony of Indonesia? Not me.
We went all in in this war, yeah we're losing but I would rather lose as an AMERICAN than live as a subject of a PEACE country.
Joe, you are awesome.
Voted!
If you want to know what eUSA ecitizens think of their government and ePOTUS go and take the survey then see the results. You will find them interesting.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-eusa-presidential-survey-who-should-be-the-next-potus--878718/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-eus[..]/1/20
When I sit here and read all these comments saying we should surrender, I just LOL. Whats funny is that the war is no where near over and we are getting closer and closer to stopping the advance and start pushing back out. I know its how to realize that when PEACE has our media, but you need to look at the battles, look at what our allies are doing to help out. If you look at the battles you will see that we are doing a lot of damage and we are barely losing battles. We are not being massacred in any sense of the term. Watch the battles, watch our forces fight and then ask yourself "Did I really believe that we were going to lose this war?"
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin, 1759
"The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!" -- Patrick Henry
"They tell us Sir, that we are weak -- unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature has placed in our power." -- Patrick Henry
"Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of Nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us." -- Patrick Henry
"Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1774
Said by True Americans in our countries darkest hour, we prevailed against a huge force. We Can Do It Again!
It seems that in some dark hours, rhetoric is all we have to sustain us. This is not said to damn rhetoric, far from it. This is to praise the eloquent, those who fight the enemy with words as much as with guns. Because, in truth, words have far more power to stay the calamity, or allow it to deluge us, than mere guns or knives or bare fists. In words we find our solace, and in the right words we find the will, courage and fortitude to continue.
You, Sir, are a mighty warrior, both with pen and sidearm. Do not let those who discount the value that "mere" words may have discourage you from your course. We have had far too many decide to quit the battle before it is won. Do not count yourself among them. We need men like you.
As to those who counsel surrender, who whisper sweet words of treason, let you be the first to offer your selves up to the dishonorable men who are PEACE. Your place is with them, and may you find it soon enough. All who would rather live as a lapdog than die like a man, your path is clear, and it leads to eHungary or eIndonesia. These are your people, go to them now. Surely they will be nice enough to keep you fed, to keep you watered, even if they jerk your leash from time to time.
Honor forfends submission. Honor demands that we fight for home and the ideals we hold in such esteem. To lay down arms in these troubled times is to forfeit your place among other honorable men.
Never. Surrender.
Habraka is reposting the same thing again and again.
Bottom line is this is a game. I am not sure where the best raw materials are. I am convinced of a few things:
The people who were in charge of the e.U.S. military were epic failures. Rather than moving all the strongest players to shut the door on the first attacks, they had them all spread out all over and they got rolled by PEACE.
I am a RL American and for as many months as I play this game and bring others to play it, I will seek to free my country.
However if I wanted to learn how to play this game well, I would ask a Hungarian or an Indonesian. The UK and the Russians are just pawns for the two countries that run this game and they should be embarassed/ashamed.
This game is also a RL business proposition for developers who want people with money to spend it on wellness etc. If they are intelligent at all, they will allow America to become a strong power, because if Americans all quit the game, one of their greatest potential revenue sources disappear.
Germans bombed pearl harbor? wasn't it the Japanese who did that?
SPARTAAAA!
Great article 🙂
These patriotic articles make my day.
HOSS IS BOSS, JEWITT TO LEAD HIM THROUGH IT!!!
Do not accept surrender! Never!
Never give up! Never Surrender!
-Galaxy Quest
Think about this Chase:
If PEACE takes over the world, then there's no one else to fight. In the end there will either have to be a reset or the game dies.
Patriotism and Fighting to the death won't save the eUS. I look forward to the eUS being wiped out maybe after all the brainless uber-patriots will leave and someone with at least half a brain can try to restore the country.
Saturday, 14:31 - The wall is low in Wyoming. Please help if you can.
Lets make this easy to understand; all you guys yelling 'never surrender', 'death before dishonour' and 'oorah' are wrong.
We will prove that to you, and you will all, in the end, realise your mistake, and say I was right, all along.
For now, you will believe whatever you want, you will not listen to rhetoric, nor will you apply common sense. No, you will spout the same basic one liners like there is no tomorrow. But there is a tomorrow, and a tomorrow after that. And after days, weeks, months even years of screaming the same thing over and over and over again, you will realise everything you believed to be true, is not. Only then, you will see the truth. And it's going to hurt. Really hurt.
I agree - I much rather leave the game than not play as an American! eRepublic can have their Indonesian group base but you can count me out if the last US State falls. I won't live under Tyranny!
If hungarians would have done the same..
>And it's going to hurt. Really hurt.
Well, now we're scared. I am quite sure that this *game* is going to shake the very core of our being! I know that, just the other day, I had a transcendental moment playing bridge that caused me to question my existence and my place in the universe.
Oh, wait, I think I just had a bad pretzel or something. Nevermind.
Vote and Subscribe please! It's Free!
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/go-usa-go-croatia-go-spain-go-switerland--880559/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/go-u[..]/1/20
Spoken like a true American.
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Andrew Jackson
I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
Andrew Jackson
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt
"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well."
Theodore Roosevelt
"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
Theodore Roosevelt
"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness."
Theodore Roosevelt
Sorry thought I'd contribute some quotes 🙂
nice article:
US flag - check
Sly - check
BS patriotism - check
no real solution - check