What Happened To Friendship?
An Sluagh
11 days ago, without any notice, no prior warning or permission, eCanada proposed a Natural Enemy on eIreland and was approved by their congress by 23 votes to 8. And thus their invasion commenced at a time when a Slovenian invasion was pending. There has been claims that the invasion was done due to the upcoming tournament. However where was the communication with us? A nation which has been their brother and friend for possibly all of this games history.
The drama all began when Slovenia openly stated that Ireland was their objective in this crusade. UK was only the land bridge from their base located in Belgium. The United Kingdom and eIreland have been very much cooperating with one another following several invasions on our islands, these have seen us grow closer and closer.
While the Slovenian crusade was in full swing,Canada directly aided Slovenia's UK invasion. Not only did they open a second front for Slovenia, they strategically blocked Ireland from opening a second front against Slovenia by taking Wales which could have been our entry point to Slovenian occupied regions. It could have been 2 nations vs Slovenia, Canada instead arranged for us to be picked off one at a time by two nations. During this time Canada could have taken Northern Ireland and completed the block for Ireland immediately. They left the NI gate open for Slovenia so that they could propose a Natural Enemy when it suited them and their NE lock had expired.
And then Canada NE us and take only regions that leave Slovenia with access to us.
Every single decision Canada made, since Slovenia started this campaign, seems to damage us.
Meanwhile Slovenia have engaged in a Training War with the United Kingdom which see's them going around United Kingdom regions but has seen Northern Ireland left untouched.
Is a second Slovenian invasion pending?
However we have freed our regions, we struck a deal with Canada that saw MooMooHead pay 50kcc to the Canadian Rogue Rylde for our freedom with a further 50kcc to be paid upon the full liberation of our island.
Following these developments, myself, Moomoohead and Aoifenibhriain held a meeting with a Canadian representative. We were asked to provide a training war and a possible region rental of Louth. We said we would not engage in any deals with Canada unless they provided us with assurance that Slovenia were not going to attack us. Canada at this time were unable to guarantee anything so we said we will wait to hear back from them. Within a few hours, the same representative of eCanada messaged me stating the following:
"I have been told to tell you that the time for peaceful negotiations is over. I'm sorry. If you could tell MooMooHead as well, he hasn't accepted my friend request yet. Truly I am sorry, I was hoping we could come to a peaceable solution"
Wait a few hours and then this comes along from the same guy:
"A Statement from Rylde:
We consider our attack a TW as we have no intentions of staying in any of there (Ireland) territories at this time.
Its TP cc for both sides as well as medals for RWs for them.
There free to RW back Louth"
I'm sorry for this turn of events, it caught me by surprise as well"
After paying for our liberation, eCanada forced us into a training war without any agreement or consent. Within two weeks, they have betrayed our nation within my eyes and I am not one bit impressed.
There were comments made about not confronting this issue due to causing further damage but we should not be bullied like this, especially not a nation which has been our friend for so long.
It is said that within a week Canada will AS a nation and leave our nation. Will this be when the Slovenian invasion comes? Canada moves out so Slovenia can move in?
We will see and until then we will be hurt.
I personally feel betrayed by the actions of Canada.
I feel bullied.
I feel like we are being oppressed.
I feel like we have lost our greatest friend.
Comments
I feel like you don't understand how allies work? If Northern Ireland is untouched by RW, then talk to UK about it, your closest friend apparently in this time. They have the power to RW the region, if they haven't started one, then maybe UK doesn't really care about Ireland either?
please understand the facts fully. it is a FORCED training war. We dont have enough people to RW northern ireland, because slovenia are pretty much deciding which regions to take and which regions to start a RW in. we are forced and feeling bullied also and have been striving to work with the irish government as much as possible.
Apparently you don't know how allies work either. There is a difference between ally and friend. Ally is an MPP. Friends/brotherhood goes back to history, and there's rarely a solid history like the one Canada and Ireland have had until recently.
The facts are we chose to remain neutral when our ally, UK, and our friend, Canada, got into it.
Then Canada decided to attack their friend, Ireland, to help their ally, Slovenia, in return.
It shouldn't come as a surprise given Rylde was behind the whole thing for the most part as he is one of the many players that Plato loves. The ones that spend mass RL money and focus almost entirely on the war module and see no use for friendship outside of an MPP stack.
Военни инструкции - 06 септември, еДен 2846
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-06-2846-2549333/1/20
Vote and shout PLS
Tik- tak tik- tak Canada is my love xD
a rare vote for a Conway article
A bit gay, but still voted.
It's been said that Rylde isn't a RL Canadian and doesn't understand the history of friendship between our two countries (or he doesn't care), not to mention all the times we've fought for them when they've been under attack. I'm slightly heartened that there was some resistance in Congress to the NE though Congress is irrelevant there now that Rylde has decided to buy the country. It's all very sad, but just another step closer to the death of the game.
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Respect the friendship and never forget "Keep your enemies close and your friends closer"
To be honest since now I'll consider Canada an enemy as well as Slovenia.
It is a game. It has no moral value other than entertainment. Keep that perspective and everything will fall into the right place.
That's your opinion. Some of us believe that friendship is important whether in a game or in real life.
And some of you are going to be sadly disappointed in life and on the internet.
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they don't' speak well french,
they don't speak well english
well...they do the same for friendship..