What Would You Do For Peace?

Day 902, 15:57 • Published in Serbia USA • by St Krems

Hello Serbia,

What would you do for peace?

More importantly, if your country's economy was suffering from the sudden loss of a high iron region, what would you do to secure access to some of the cheapest iron in the world?

The American government has known the benefit it's allies get from access to it's economy for a long time, this is one of the reasons we rarely close wars with our enemies, to keep them from importing our cheap goods and to stop them from being able to export to our large product hungry population.

Hungary's economic troubles have been common knowledge to the rest of the New World for quite some time. Since they lost Hello Kitty the cost of iron, and subsequently the cost of everything else in their economy, has drastically risen. Therefore, it was not surprising in the least when our Secretary of State was contacted by a Hungarian about a possible declaration of peace.


A graph showing iron prices per unit in Hungary over the last month

Negotiations over peace moved very quickly, apart from one detail which I will come onto later. We had hardly sat down before the Hungarian diplomat offered what I would later find out to be his main bargaining piece. If the eUS declared peace with Hungary they would not only never start a Resistance War in Karmataka but would also refuse to fight in one even if ordered to by Phoenix High Command.

Needless to say, we had difficulty believing this offer. Everyone and their mother knows we are going to attack Lion King soon and one of tactics Phoenix is expected to use to counter our attack is to threaten Karmataka in a resistance war. Why on earth would Hungary, the stalwart of Phoenix, offer to not take part in a Resistance War that could deal a serious blow to the eUS economy and possibly save Serbia's precious high iron region?

The answer is twofold. Hungary wanted peace with us to get access to our iron market. To help Phoenix take iron away from us would render their diplomatic victory useless and leave their economy right back in the hole they started in. The second reason can be seen from the wording from this article, "eHungary shall not start RW in Karmataka as long as Lionking is held by Serbia."

To quote from HUNGERY1:

[HUNGARY1] we had an idea
[HUNGARY1] to give up Asia

Someone should tell them that one of their allies is still under siege in Asia...

There was some upset after Serbia's poor performance in one of the most important battles of eHungary's history, the battle that ended their reign as a superpower. Now it seems Hungary is more then happy to return the favour in Serbia's time of need.

I'll come clean now for a bit. We never had any intention of signing peace with Hungary. In fact, when we were first approached we were so sure it was a hoax that we contacted the Hungarian government to make sure they really had sent their ambassador, MarginalDefeat, to us with this proposal. The response was interesting. We contacted the President of Hungary, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs at around the same time, and within the an hour had three different responses. The President claimed that MarignalDefeat was acting on his orders, the MoFA stated that MarginalDefeat was in no way connected to the Hungarian government and the official Hungarian newspaper released the below article.


The article seems to be missing in game, luckily I took the liberty of screen capping it.

We later found out that, in the words of the Hungarian MoFA:

[Krems|AFK] I'll be honest with you
[Krems|AFK] we are not going to betray Croatia
[HUN_MoFA] we know it
[HUN_MoFA] Margit [MarginalDefeat] abused Kolozs (the Hungarian President) in PM that's why he yielded to him
[HUN_MoFA] he gave him an impossible task to get rid of him

Knowing this, I figured that the incredible promise to not take part in a KT RW, even to help Serbia, was just one man speaking and that the President of Hungary had no idea what was being promised in his name. I'm rarely wrong, but when I am just look at how wrong I can be.



I will stress now that Croatia was kept informed throughout our negotiations with Hungary. I had my friend Lord Marlock (Croatian vMoD) on PM for pretty much the entire thing. We will never betray our ally Croatia, and even the Hungarian MoFA knows, this as shown when he called trying to get us to betray them an "impossible task".

The only reason the negotiations got this far was because I wanted to know if Hungary was really morally decrepit enough to sell out their age old ally Serbia for the promise of cheaper iron. Well I guess we have our answer.

Seriously Hungry, did you ever wonder why we pulled the Secretary of State from the negotiations and replaced him with the Chief of Staff? Do you think we don't know that if we ever lose a resistance war in Karnataka we couldn't simply swap back in from Andhra-Padesh? I know we are Americans but please credit us with some intelligence.

http://i43.tinypic.com/21njgqp.jpg" />
~http://www.youtube.com/v/l-G8rDBIk38&autoplay=1

Sleep well Serbia and long live the King 😉