Why the Brolliance works, and how to learn from it

Day 714, 12:05 • Published in USA USA • by Jayron Thirtytwo

So this is my first real political article. All those faithful readers looking for this weeks beer review (OK, all 6 of you); I did promise to let you all know about the worst beer ever. It's Heileman's Old Style. It's a shit beer. Trust me. Drink it at your own risk. Maybe next week you'll get a more extensive beer review. But today, we have more important things to discuss.

In this article by Gaius Julius, he advocates for the expansion of the Brolliance, which is the special relationship between the U.S. and Canada. He makes some valid points about needing to expand America's connectedness in the world, both to strengthen ourselves and the bonds to those people that have defended us in our time of troubles, and to stand up to PEACE aggression. However, the idea of 'adding' people to the Brolliance is not the way to go. Let me explain why, and what can be done instead.

First of all, the Brolliance works because it isn't a formal alliance backed by contracts and treaties. It makes no demands on the partners, but each of us, the eUSA and eCanada, has made a committment to collaborate and stand by each other. This special relationship works because of our close geography and common shared culture and goals. eUSA and eCanada have a shared history because of our common enemy (PEACE) and we survived the attempted PEACE takeover of North America together. Additionally, the informal nature of it is what makes it so flexible and responsive a relationship. There's no formal organization to work through, we just coordinate and go. That bond is special, and should be eternal and unbreakable and it works on its own. It doesn't need any extra "members" because it isn't an organization. Unlike other "treaty organizations", it will not be strengthened by adding members, indeed by formally expanding the Brolliance, we will ultimately weaken the Brolliance because it will diminish that special, bilateral relationship we have. By adding more members, it makes the coordination of defense more complicated, once we have a committee of even 3 together, it ruins the ability to react quickly and work effectively.

Still, there ARE important bonds to be made, both in terms of formal alliances and "special relationships". Here are some options besides expanding the Brolliance that we should explore.

1) We can be part of more than one treaty organization with eCanada. Having the Brolliance as a two-member relationship does not prevent us from be members of other alliances of which eCanada is also a member. This can mean that the eUSA formally seeks membership in EDEN, or it can mean that the eUSA and eCanada work to establish new multilateral alliances. This works better than merely adding members to the Brolliance because it maintains the special nature of the Brolliance, but it also allows the eUSA to become more engaged members of the international community on a worldwide scale

2) We can establish "Brolliance-like" relationships bilaterally with other nations. eCroatia, for example, was absolutely invaluable to the victory in Manitoba. We literally could not have won that battle without them, and that was the start of the end for PEACE in North America. We have recently returned the favor in helping defend eCroatian territory against eSerb and eHungarian invasions. Our "Cro-bros" (I get dibs on that name!) are quickly becoming another Brolliance-like special relationship, and we should foster that. Likewise, the way that the Scandanavian nations occupied eRussia was the key thing that allowed our Phoenix-like rise from the dead. Call them our "Snow-bros". eFinland especially (our Suo-bros?) took the brunt of eRussian retribution for this, and we are today helping defend them against an eRussian invasion. The nice thing about these sort of bilateral relationships is they would offer the same sort of rapid response and coordination to events that the Brolliance does, giving us the flexibility to work with individual nations in dealing with individual problems in the most effective manner.

As much as I respect our leader Gaius Julius, I respectfully disagree that we should expand the Brolliance. Let what works KEEP WORKING, and instead learn from why it works, and apply that to other situations to make us and our allies as strong as possible.