Why you will see some familiar names fighting for Norway

Day 1,960, 19:13 Published in Germany Germany by Skalg von Tuari


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Dear Comrades!

With a huge majority, congress decided to attack Norway, a country that used to be our ally, a country so small, it barely matters and that only exists because it has a strategy similar to ours: rent some regions to a strong neighbour, defend the others with all you have got.

Tiuri has already explained the morality of it. Had the SPeD been more successful in congress elections, things might look different. This way, only the communists and some brave individuals were able to take a stand and vote against this senseless war. But let me talk a little bit about the rationale behind our decision.

What do we get?

Yes, I said it: The war is senseless. There are 3 reasons for that:

1) There is no way we will be able to hold onto the regions. We are small, irrelevant, and our allies are very new and have other battles to fight in. Norway will get free eventually - hopefully.

2) Even if we keep them, we do not really need them. What do they have that wee need? Oil. That is only one ressource out of 10 - is that worth the trouble?

3) What fun is it, to have a 3-day war against a country with a quarter of the damage output? Is it not more fun to spend all the money, all the effort in battles that actually matter, namely in battles for our (new) friends, against formidable and strong enemies?

Overal, there is no rational reason to fight this war. It is a choice, and we think it is the wrong one. By now, even our CP has admitted that this decision caused tensions with Denmark, since we need to fight this from their soil, and against a nation that helped to keep them wiped when we could not. We, the KPeD, have always fought for the weak; against german imperialism in Sweden, against Serbian imperialism in Hello Kitty and now against german imperialism in Norway.



What we will do

Thanks to how DOs work, we cannot tell people to fight against Germany. But what we can do is concentrate our damage in other battles, occiasioally moving to Norway to fight for them. I cannot organise things, but the RA might strike against Germark - at least I hope it will.

But we will definitely fight in Norwegian RWs, to free their region faster than Germark can capture them. We know how it feels to be occupied. In times of need, we got solidarity by fighters from various countries, but only communists dared to fight against their own, hungarian or british, governments because they believed in freedom.

We cannot fall behind that, and we will support Norway!

About the vote in congress

There is one more issue that bothers me and that has not, in my opinion, been properly discussed or even considered.

There was a discussion and a vote in congress. There was a tie: 11 voted pro war, 11 voted against it. Many felt unsure about what to do. Since this topic was secret, no one could write about it or publicly voice their opinion - but the CP could, and he is pro war. There is a clear power disparity.

Now, nothing wrong with that. So there was an election. The day after this, before the new congress had a chance to read arguments against the war (as they had just gotten access to the secret part of the forums) and after they had read the CPs arguments for it (as he can write whatever he wants, whenever he wants to), the CP started a new poll. No discussion thread. No summary of the discussion. No link to the discussion thread. No wait period. Just like that.

Many have belittled me for pointing this out - but there are many, many rules in the GO that want to prevent decisions like that: uninformed decisions, done as fast as possible, that give an advantage to the person with the most publicity (i.e. the CP). I have asked for the thread to become public.

Maybe the decision would have been the same. Maybe this does not, on the long run, matter. And quite certainly, there was no ill intent behind this. But before something like that happens again, I want to make sure everyone know this is not the way to do it. That was poor handling.



Freedom!
Skalg von Tuari