Croatia, have no regrets

Day 1,981, 02:12 • Published in Croatia Croatia • by Obersoldat



*Hrvatska verzija ispod

ENGLISH VERSION

Since Romania signed MPP with Serbia and their departure from EDEN is now well known, there has been a lot of articles about this subject. With some parts I agree, with some I don't, so I will not repeat what is already said, I just wanted to remind you, of what I didn't saw was mentioned in any of them, and what we musn't forget.

Since this MPP was signed I saw a lot of comments by Croats blaming previous governments for not prepairing for this situation and securing new alliances in the case that EDEN falls apart. Since it was very likely that this scenario will happen months ago. EDEN has become too big, and members have become far less interested to cooperate with EDEN HQ. There has been several attempts to make things better in EDEN, but all failed. And it was very likely that EDEN will fall apart.



Ever since I started playing in 2009 Croatia has had a policy ''They can take our pixels, but not our honor.'' Which I liked very much, that spartan motto. When Poland and Spain left EDEN to found ONE we were invited to join them, since we had really tight relationship with Poland, we declined the offer, cause we do not betray our friends, firstly Romania. When CTRL was being formed, we could also jump on that wagon, but we didn't, cause again, we do not betray our friends. Aldough we had a great relationship with Brazil at that time, they asked us to leave Romania behind because they had a grudge because of Romanian MU Nemesis was trying a TO. Both Romania and Brazil were our friends. And when one friend asks you to break friendship with the other friend, what do you do? We said that we do not betray any of our friends, no matter who is asking that from us. And aldough our thanks for that from Romania was MPP with Serbia, I still think we made a right choice then. We stick to our principles and came out of every scenario with clear consciousness. Never forget that and be proud of it.



When in the previous term CP proposed leaving EDEN because Romania did not come to aid to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia when we were trying to clear the Balkans of Serbia, we we were approached by a certain country government to talk about a possible MPP. It is not important which country government it was, since the scenario would be the same in any case:

Country: We would like to talk to you about a possibility of MPP
Croatia: Sure, no problem. But you are at war with one of our allies. You need to make up with them.
Country: No problem. We can guarantee that after we close the war we will leave them a region or two for them to have congress.
Croatia: That's not what we mean. You need to stop the war, release all of their regions, make up and sign a MPP with them as well.
Country: That is not possible. We will fight them, blablabla....

And that was the end of that conversation.



Whenever EDEN was in crisis we always repeated one thing ''We will be the last to leave, ones who will turn off the light.'' All Croatian former CP's, including me, had that policy. Having that policy and preparing grounds for a backup plan would be two-faced, which Croatia is not. We decided long time ago that a captain sinks with its ship. Ship has now sank, its captain with it. It may take us a while to swim out to the surface, but know that we have fulfilled our duty, we did what we said we will do.



We have nothing to be regretful about, we have kept our honor, our word. We did not go behind our friend's back and negotiated with their enemies, nor will we ever. Now there is a long road in front of us that together with our old friends we make new friendships, as we played until now, never forgetting those who played as we do, holding their word more sacred than pixels.

Whatever future brings us, be proud of yourselves. Even when it seems that we are retarded for playing like this, don't doubt yourselves. Countries who change their hats as wind blows, can have more pixels which tomorrow they can lose. We have our honor, something that can never be taken away.

Ad honorem! o7





HRVATSKA VERZIJA

Otkako je Rumunjska potpisala MPP sa Srbijom i njihov odlazak iz EDEN-a je sada jasan, bilo je dosta članaka o ovoj temi. Sa nekim dijelovima tih članaka se slažem, sa nekim ne, no neću ponavljati ono što je već rečeno. Samo vas želim podsjetiti na ono što nisam vidio da je spomenuto u nijednom od tih članaka, a što ne smijemo zaboraviti.

Otkako je ovaj MPP potpisan vidio sam dosta komentara od Hrvata koji krive prethodne Vlade jer se nisu pripremale za ovu situaciju i pregovarali o novim savezništvima u slučaju da se EDEN raspadne. Iako je mogućnost da će se ovaj scenarij dogoditi bila jasna već prije nekoliko mjeseci. EDEN je postao prevelik, a interes članica za suradnjom sa EDEN HQ je značajno opao. Bilo je nekoliko pokušaja da se EDEN oživi, ali svi su propali. I bilo je jasno da je raspad neizbježan.



Odkako sam počeo igrati 2009.,Hrvatska je imala politiku ''Mogu nam uzeti piksele, ali ne čast''.Što mi se jako svidilo, taj spartanski moto. Kada su Poljska i Španjolska napustile EDEN da bi osnovale ONE, bili smo pozvani da im se pridružimo, jer smo imali jako blizak odnos sa Poljskom.Odbili smo ponudu jer nismo htjeli izdati prijatelje, u prvom redu Rumunjsku. Kada se stvarao CTRL, mogli smo uskočiti i na taj vlak, ali nismo, jer opet, mi ne izdajemo svoje prijatelje. Iako smo tada imali izvrstan odnos sa Brazilom, tražili su od nas da napustimo Rumunjsku radi sukoba sa njima, jer je rumunjski MU Nemesis pokušavao napraviti PTO. I Rumunjska i Brazil su nam bili prijatelji. I kad te jedan prijatelj nagovara da napustiš drugog prijatelja, što napraviti? Rekli smo da ne izdajemo ni jednoga od naših prijatelja, nije važno tko to traži. I iako hvala koje smo dobili od Rumunjske je MPP sa Srbijom, i dalje mislim da smo tada ispravno postupili. Uvijek smo se držali naših principa i iz svakog scenarija izišli sa čistom savjesti. Nemojte to nikada zaboraviti i budite ponosni na to.



Kada je u prošlom mandatu CP predložio izlazak iz EDEN-a jer Rumunjska nije htjela pomoći Albaniji, BiH i Hrvatskoj da očiste Balkan od Srbije, Vlada određene zemlje nam je pristupila da razgovaramo o mogućem MPP-u. Nije važno koja zemlja je u pitanju, jer bi scenarij bio isti u svakom slučaju:

Država: Željeli bismo razgovarati sa vama o mogućem MPP-u
Hrvatska: Naravno, nema problema. Ali ste trenutno u ratu sa jednim od naših saveznika. Morate se pomiriti sa njima.
Država: Nema problema. Možemo garantirat da ćemo im ostaviti regiju dvije nakon što zatvorimo rat da imaju kongres.
Hrvatska: Nismo to mislili. Morate zaustaviti rat, vratiti im sve regije, pomiriti se i potpisati MPP i s njima.
Država: To je nemoguće. Nikad se nećemo prestat boriti s njima, blablabla....

I tu svaki razgovor završava.



Kada god je EDEN bio u krizi mi smo uvijek ponavljali jednu stvar ''Mi ćemo zadnji otići,mi ćemo biti oni koji će ugasiti svjetlo.'' Svi bivši hrvatski CP-ovi su imali tu politiku, uključujući mene. Imati tu politiku i pripremati teren za plan B bi bilo dvolično, a to Hrvatska nije. Davno smo odlučili da kapetan tone sa svojim brodom. Brod je sad potonuo i njegov kapetan s njim. Možda će nam trebati vremena dok isplivamo opet na površinu, ali znajte da smo ispunili svoju dužnost, učinili smo ono što smo rekli da ćemo učiniti.



Nemamo za čim žaliti, održali smo našu čast, našu riječ. Nismo prijateljima išli iza leđa i pregovarali sa njihovim neprijateljima, niti ćemo ikada to učiniti. Sada je pred nama dug put gdje ćemo skupa sa našim starim prijateljima sklopiti neka nova prijateljstva, igrajući kao i dosad, nikad ne zaboravljajući one koji igraju kao i mi, koji drže svoju riječ važnijom od pixela.

Što nam god budućnost donijela, budite ponosni na sebe. Čak i kad se čini da smo retardirani što igramo ovako, nemojte sumnjati u sebe. Zemlje koje okreću kapu kako vjetar puše, mogu imati više piksela od nas koje opet mogu izgubiti sutra. Mi imamo našu čast, nešto što nam nikad ne može biti oduzeto.

Ad honorem! o7