[Damhnaic for CP] War & Foreign Affairs
Damhnaic
To my very dearest friends, to my comrades of Ireland,
This is the third article in my Taoiseach Candidacy Campaign.
1. Presentation, Cabinet, and various considerations
2. New Citizens & Community
3. War & Foreign Affairs
4. Final considerations
War & Foreign Affairs
This is a very sensitive subject, but I have nothing to hide and will be very frank in the following wall of text. If people vote for me it'll be for what I believe and not what I want to make them think I believe.
First consideration: This is a war game.
Yes, this is a war game. This is one of the main arguments I hear these days for the promotion of "war for war". But there are subtleties to this war game I would like to discuss.
First of all, what do we need for war?
To my humble knowledge, we need three things to do a successful war.
1. Weapons (either produced or bought, require money)
We have no money. I've been speaking with appleman, the finances are doing horribly, we are balancing between very little bonus and deficit. Yet we've been at war for the last month. I must frankly admit that I won't be, unlike the current president, offering thousands of gold that I'll get from a mysterious source. To win battles we need supplies, and without a generous donator we need a state economy. The only way to make money is to cut spending and invest in the Monetary Market, unless someone want to get his MasterCard and pay thousands of euros to replenish our coffers.
2. Soldiers (either from the country or from foreign allies)
We need soldiers to fight, it is quite obvious. But we have a problem, we are losing our older citizens. Like I said in my previous article, the older citizens are leaving the eCountry (either leaving the game or tired of the community). If we want to keep or soldiers we need an active community and not a permanent shitfest (which was promoted by past CP)
3. Enemy (either as a training war or as true struggles with another nation
A major distinction that must be made is between tensions and pleasure that is supposed to originate from a virtual war or a game. The tension created in eRepublik involves real life feelings, while a virtual war shouldn't. It leaves the state of a "game" and becomes a real source of struggles, stress and tension. While I'm all for a war (when we have money and support), I will never support the volunteer action of creating tensions, of provoking other players for pleasure. For it involves real life feeling, it creates real life tensions and resentment, which is then no longer a game. Taunting and arrogance only promotes such tensions, while a good war can be organised (even if it's not training) without it involving creation of hate and tensions.
Secondly, is war the only solution?
Yes, war is necessary so we can get our medals and ranks. But lately it was seen as an end by itself. "We only need war, it'll solve all our problems". No. No it won't. This games revolves around four modules, Military, Economic, Community (newspapers, MU, Parties, etc), and Politics. While war does satisfy the military scene, and helps the economy, it doesn't improve the community and politics.
In Ireland, our main problems have been on the community scene. We had struggles, we had civil wars. Were they solved by war? No. They were silenced. The word -solved- means it all. Have we looked into the causes and meanings of our struggles? No. People left, we lost valued citizens, others silenced themselves. But the causes aren't solved, problems and struggles will raise again, shitstorms yet again.
So no, War hasn’t solved our problems, in fact it led us to a wipe. We need to work on our community, we need to work on ourselves to make eIreland enjoyable. Yes we need war, it is a part of the solution, but it's not the solution by itself like many believe.
Conclusions of preceding considerations:
I won't be doing the promotion of a continued war with the British. I've had discussion with numerous eUK very active citizens and there was an opening for unconditional peace (because I didn't taunt them, threatened them, because I had DISCUSSION with them and I haven't shown arrogance, unlike ...) You may rest assured, I don't plan paying a penny for our regions.
My idea on all this, if we can solve our problems as quickly as possible on a diplomatic ground, we can save our manpower and resources to help our (also wiped) allies in southern America. What we/they are lacking is manpower against enemies more numerous than we are. If we can solve our problem diplomatically, we'll be able to help them.
Recall of my Cabinet:
Ministry of Defence - Seanan
Ministry of Finance - Appleman
Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Minister: Ian E Coleman / Advisor: Ethel Rosenberg / Ambassador program: Raven Anarcho
Ministry of Immigration - Committee: Gerald Smyth / Paddy O’Brian
Ministry of Community - Damhnaic
Ministry of New Citizens - Irasian
Edit: Sadly, Nogin the Nog won't be availble to help during next term.
Questions? Commentaries? Post them in comments!
For a more livable and enjoyable eIreland,
Yours sincerely,
Previously publishe
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* New Citizens & Community, day 1988.
*Damhnaic for eIreland, Damhnaic for CP!, day 1986.
*On the Importance of Smaller Parties, day 1982.
*Mediocrity of Leaders, day 1957.
*Liberty of Discussion in Democracy, day 1955.
Comments
personal opinion, hire WHS on Community 😉 and don't exclude Department of Education
I had WHS on community before and he told me he sadly wasn't availble for the rest of the month.
As for education, I had Ian but moved him to FA.
Education is sure important, but like I said in previous article I believe we already completed very awesome guides and tutorials, the main thing we need is to make them accessible, which doesn't need a person full time on it.
Yes Damhnaic is correct...Everyone must be aware I have not been a good MoC this month because of immense RL pressures. So I had to refuse Damhnaic's (and other candidates) kind offer of a position in his Cabinet.
No problem WHS, I deeply appreciate your past dedication and am very aware none should do a job they are uneasy with because of RL pressures or any other reasons = )
well I'm sure that won't be problem for Ian, he used to be in 2 Ministries, and we should have atleast 2 articles for education per CP term...
anyways good luck
Nothing's exclude, fluability within Cabinet is most welcome!
moar ibhoy will solve all our problems
Will you be my friend?
I have toys and candies....
Stay away from him Ibhoy it's a trick by the old priest.
but....i just wanna play with him on my lap.......
Kind of a disjointed discussion here in the comments but just to add my own two cents:
As Damhnaic has said we already have loads of great guides to draw on both as new citizens and old. The real challenge is making those articles accessible and digestible, which I believe I've taken some steps toward with our national library and the new citizens portal. That said, we could really better incorporate those guides etc into the retainment stage of our new citizens program.
If I do end up as MoFA this month I'll still be able to work with Damhnaic to take further steps and get our new citizens message/tutorials/bootcamp into one streamlined structure.
Foreign Affairs:
I'm on the same page in terms of looking to wrap up our conflict with the eUK diplomatically. Merits of the original war itself aside, we don't have the resources to be a perpetual war machine. It might be a bit of an uphill battle but I'm confident that it's a workable goal to see regional peace restored and further diplomatic progress completed.
Agreed x2
I'd like to point out that over here in the UK we have spent very little on the war, maybe a few thousand, and made a profit from the MM and increased spending. Basically, we are in a way better position than Ireland, and can continue the fight for a lot longer - which apparently would cripple your nation.
Basically, elect anyone other than MUFC/his puppet or MikeBane and we will talk peace.
That was already aknowledged, at least for me.
We certainly won't be crippled by continuing war with the eUK, rather it isn't beneficial for us to stay at war with you. Financially eIreland is still a very sound ship as we've managed to keep government overhead independent of war costs.
The reality is that even as eIreland is currently wiped this conflict comes at a cost to both eIreland and eUK, and that this war is largely predicated on the support of our respective allies.
It's a given that eIreland will remain pragmatic in the preservation of its right to self-determination. We don't know who will head eUK's government next month so we'd need to have very little self respect to sacrifice our right to choose our own leader based on a condition that some random citizen from the eUK lays out.
This^
Damhnaic is heretic and stuff.....you know...repent and shit...
You are getting softer Viktor, I fear for your faith. Would you appreciate if I had some ramblings in French so you could call be a filthy heretic?
Pour Gadamer, le jeu, dans l’expérience esthétique, a comme but de mener à une certaine transmutation. Il s’agit du moment où le jeu s’empare de celui qui joue, quand il remplit de son esprit. « Celui qui joue éprouve le jeu comme une réalité qui le dépasse . » À ce moment, le jeu se détache de l’action des joueurs, il en vient à l’autoreprésentation : le jeu devient la manifestation de ce à quoi ils jouaient . Les joueurs ne maintienne donc pas leur indépendance, ils perdent totalement leur subjectivité : « La transmutation, en revanche, signifie que quelque chose est d’un coup et en totalité autre chose et que cette autre chose, qu’il est en vertu de la transmutation, est son être vrai, au regard duquel on être antérieur est nul et non avenu. »
There, now you have a reason to flame me = )
Too drunk to care for that monkey language now....
I curse you you spawn of SATAN!....you know the rest...
Very good, good luck on CP elections!
You had me at the Enemy paragraph!.
Voted!
[Damhnaic for CP] Final Considerations
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2255782
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