[Glove] I see, I see a Recipe for Disaster - The War vs ONE and Failures
GloveisLove
I couldn't have said this any sooner.
Friends, I have always been a realist. I have always been fairly good at predicting outcomes and analyzing the situation before me. I like to take the time to listen to others and form a solid opinion on a topic before jumping to a conclusion. So today I sat down and took a look at the world map. I do not like what I see, not one bit.
Now granted, we have all our bonuses. But have you ever thought about the implications of our actions? We could be doing more harm than good with our guaranteed "negotiated upon" bonus deal with Spain.
Let me explain.
The above image is more important than this. Why you ask? First of all, why are we derping with Denmark and Loland. The author claims Terra HQ said it was beneficial to "our allies," but I disagree. What would be more helpful to our allies? Helping Greece and Turkey. Once Greece and Turkey are wiped, think about where all of ONE's MPP damage will be applied to. Just think.
The situation in the Balkans is a ticking-time bomb, waiting to explode on our faces.
Your leaders have failed you, at least in regards to foreign affairs.
Over the course of the last few months we have lost the following as allies:
1) Bulgaria
2) Chile
Allies gaine
😛None.
So basically, we've lost a ton of allied support, and this is already considering that ONE alone before this already had more raw firepower than Eden and Terra combined, they are only missing coordination.
The #1 foreign affair mistake committed by the U.S government over the course of the last few months was:
1) Losing Bulgaria as an ally
Why? Bulgaria, was one of the closest allies we had. One of the most loyal and strongest as well, always willing to give a helping hand, without even needing to be asked. I was not here when Bulgaria made the switch from Eden to ONE, but regardless of what happened, Bulgaria will be one of the game changers in the struggle against ONE in the months to come. Bulgaria, Serbia, Fyrom, and Loland, some of the strongest nations in the game, present a grave danger for Turkey & Greece and the rest of Eden, as you can see they are currently sweeping through Eden's lands, and once that is over, you can all expect ONE to be expanding, to the West. The last time America was invaded, all of Eden was wiped, but I recall having significant support from Bulgaria, China, and a few other nations, but this time, due to the foreign affair failures of our leaders, we will be missing more allies and will be even more handicapped.
And to make things worse, take a look at Western Europe. We're losing ground, fast.
Poland has swallowed Germany up, again, Hungary is within French land, Slovenia is occupying Italy, the United Kingdom is poised to liberate its land, Spain is nearly whole (and even has some colonies in South America), and America has several fronts exposed.
The #2 foreign affair mistake was: Negotiating a peace settlement with Spain.
Spain was on her knees for weeks, having no land to call home, no resources, and desperate to come back to the map. But for some reason, the U.S. government decided it best to take the easy route out and negotiate a peace treaty and have safe-guaranteed resources, moreso than take concern for its own safety. By stopping the war in Spain, we've given the Spaniards and ONE time to rebuild, recover, and now we are at risk of invasion from Hungary, Poland, Spain, Mexico, Serbia and Indonesia. Poland could NE Canada, cross through Wales and enter North America, Hungary could NE Canada or France and gain a border with the USA as well, Mexico could be used as a attack route with ONE support (direct border), Spain has a direct border with us, as do the Indonesians. Possibly Serbia, if they continue the war on Italy, they could reach France, then attack USA's regions bordering Spain-France and then they could reach North America as well, and the United Kingdom could also realistically reach the USA. I do not like to make up hypothetical situations, but these are very real possibilities, as proven in the past. With Croatia, Turkey, and Greece struggling to stay on the map, Eden's powerhouses, the next to follow will be Romania, and after Romania who is next? The USA and Brazil. If we were smart, we'd at least would have kept the war on Spain continuing, so then at least we'd have a buffer zone to create strategic landswaps and have one less potential enemy to deal with, but no, your leaders chose to take the easy way out and have assured resources rather than thinking about long-term safety.
This is the situation that we have at hand.
And I do not like it one bit.
Signed,
Glove is Love
Comments
Pertamax
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Lost 2, gained None. Good Observation.
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Portugal is wiped as well thanks to our negotiation....I'm sure they're happy about our looking out for our own bonuses now.
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nice article
You might have totally sucked why you were CP, but shit
GLove is love
Lost 2, gained None. Good Observation.
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Worst thing is that Ireland was the only one stating this in past...
Glove is Love! ❤
V
Didn't we gain Turkey as an ally?
@New Faustian Man
Turkey was already against Spain and helping Greece. So we would have probably been at NAP with them or allied regardless
Great analysis! That happens when amateurish "Elitists" try to play war! They wrote in
!!! NEWSPAPER !!! they want to attack Loland 2 days !!! before they did. They didnt inform the MU-leaders of the eUSA of their plans nor of their strategy ( i assume there was none strategy at all) and then they wonder, when ONE starts a massive attack before they get on their horses! I say : amateurs!
ticking time bombs and foreign affairs...ah, so sad to see eCanada has become a gateway to invasion. Hopefully not so tragic as that. I do agree that focusing on Spain will be (would have been?) a good move...and speaking of buffers: "Buffers and Courts."
Wait, didn't we get wiped directly due to shit that happened during your terms AND also emptied the country accounts?
I get this is a political article so rah rah 'glove is love' and all but it's not as if your terms were perfection either 🙂
Btw welcome back, it's been boring as hell.... the wipe cycle has begun again and the eUS is due.
Also need a VP? lol 😉
@Speedcat McNasty
By the time I took office, Emerick was already being invaded by Spain. When I assumed office, Indonesia attacked us, followed by Poland. So I basically inherited an invasion that inevitable, and yes, we almost emptied the country coffers trying to desperately salvage America, something I think is reasonable--afterall, what is the point of having emergency funding if you're not trying to save your nation?
Great Article!
Glove is Love!
Good read!
VOTED!
Great stuff, like usual
Glove: you know what it's like to inherit such situations very well yourself. Welcome to the nightmare I inherited. Oh, and to correct one factual inaccuracy, given that one of the main reasons for Bulgaria leaving was that Turkey were added to the Eden alliance, and that Argentina have also since joined the Eden alliance, I think you'll find that your math needs some work
Derp derp derp
at any rate, no matter what your standpoint is in the game or politics or who's fault it is, eUSA is definitley in the cross-hairs of ONE, and we'd best be doing all we can in combat to not just save ourselves, but our allies.
Superior foreign policy o7
you will find soon which is your problem, let me give you a clue
turks
So, how is it our mistake that we lose Bulgaria?
Turkey Bulgaria conflict happened when Turkey joined Eden
eRep is a game of cycles I heard. This has only one exception: there is no cycle when it comes to US failures. This is permanent. 😉
Glove has a good point.
You people still don't get it do you?
Bulgaria could have been kept as an ally as long as we kept Turkey just as pro-TEDEN, not as full member.
Why? Because Turks have already betrayed their old allies so they were stuck with us and we could make the terms of cooperation with them - in other words, respect Bulgaria will. That we didn't.
And the thing with Chile was a total fiasco: we traded TERRA member for a non-TERRA member...
"Glove: you know what it's like to inherit such situations very well yourself. Welcome to the nightmare I inherited. Oh, and to correct one factual inaccuracy, given that one of the main reasons for Bulgaria leaving was that Turkey were added to the Eden alliance, and that Argentina have also since joined the Eden alliance, I think you'll find that your math needs some work"
Turkey was already allied with us, as was Argentina. Check your math, we gained nothing new.
We are fighting against turkey not against EDEN or TERRA!! I personally will never hit for serbia or F.Y.R.O.M.!! Bottom line is that EDEN traded us for turkey!! And TERRA at that time could have do something to stop that! For example you could kept Chile and bring us into TERRA!! Some may say that this will cut the ties with EDEN..well if they want to be totally wiped by ONE they will cut the ties with TERRA!!!
What TERRA needs to realize is that the current EDEN is no better than ONE!!
And Bulgaria is NOT ONE!! We are just using the MPPs!!
Want to leave NAP with eSpain? It´s an option after all. Just remember this is a game of alliances and war, and that action, by itself, would open a new front and drain damage to it.
What kept Spain erased and struggling for months was the joint effort of eUSA, eBrazil and, in some decisive battles, the whole TEDEN.
The big difference now is not Artela, nor eUSA foreign policy. Look inside TEDEN.
@TheManiacBG
I know Bulgaria didnt want to do what it did, but they didnt want to be on the same side as Turks. Which is what I am telling the American public, we had options, and our leaders betrayed Bulgarian friendship just because Eden did. It was wrong and I think we need to re-evaluate the situation.
"So basically, we've lost a ton of allied support, and this is already considering that ONE alone before this already had more raw firepower than Eden and Terra combined, they are only missing coordination."
This has to be one of the most blatant lies I've read lately
It's funny to see people comment here complaining about some of this, yet they supported Oblige in either of his last two campaigns, or voted/spoke against impeachment after he began the walk down the road that led to this. Idiots.
It is amusing to see Glove talking about getting wiped though. You were a barely active, and by your own admission an 'idgaf about anything' CP who got us wiped dude. Pot and kettle.
Artela
'Glove: you know what it's like to inherit such situations very well yourself. Welcome to the nightmare I inherited. Oh, and to correct one factual inaccuracy, given that one of the main reasons for Bulgaria leaving was that Turkey were added to the Eden alliance, and that Argentina have also since joined the Eden alliance, I think you'll find that your math needs some work'
We traded a a reliable ally in Bulgaria for a bunch of back stabbing Turks....
I knew peace treaty with Spain was a bad idea. :/
> Allies gaine😛 None.
turkey shall demand an official apology.
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EDEN Damagehood traded Bulgaria for Turkey thinking Turkey is stronger than Bulgaria, now all they are left with are Stanko's dead bots.
TEDEN now is actually worse than before Turkey changed sides.
Jackpot
Losing Bulgaria and Chile was a consequence of the policy of appeasing followed by Oblige administration toward EDEN and the Turkish-Argentinian-Ukrainian trio. TERRA should just follow its own policy without caring so much of EDEN, a dead alliance that keeps moving only thanks to the Romanian proficiency in the art of necromancy.
I actually agree with you Glove. Unfortunately Bulgaria is 100% internal EDEN screwups. We were basically given the option of Croatia, Romania, Greece, and Turkey or Bulgaria.
As to Chile, I've been extremely vocal in my disgust with that and Artela and I have set orders to fight against Chile 0 time.
Rofl blame Oblige the normal response from the current leadership. Oblige did not come up with the plan to border us with Poland who everyone knows has more power then us. The patriot medal of course made this plan even dumber. Oblige had come up with the Spain treaty but it never passed before he left office and you sure as hell did not have to pass it. Not only did you pass it but you then wasted eUS damage to help Spain take back territories.
interesting story: I was gone for 3 days and when I came back I didnt know about the Spain Treaty so I saw us losing a spain RW it was all tied up last round. So I dumped 4mil damage to take the lead. Our brilliant leader Artela starts attacking for Spain at the last minute so Spain would win. What a horrible leader. Instead of messaging me and telling me whats going on she let me waste 4mil damage on the battle and then she wastes damage to help Spain as if they are our allies.
As for 'peace' with Spain: It wasn't Status quo ante bellum it was Military occupation.
You know what's an interesting story WinterFury1? When a group of people actively choose not to take part in the primary avenue for communication and coordination for eUS military groups and then bitch they didn't know they are in the wrong spot.
Know what is even more interesting...the total lack of communications from this Administration about the war effort...then blaming the soldiers in the field for the Administration's mistakes...had any one other than Artela fought for Spain the 'Pfeifferist' would be screaming traitor...the Pfeifferist sure as hell did not have to pass the peace accord, then wasted damage to help Spain take back territories we should have kept....
Something else to consider.
Canada signs MPP with Hungary.
You heard it here first.
^ I recall hearing that on IRC about a week ago actually 😮😮
Ahem, I was speaking to Glove.
Nosyt egy segg ~_^
Hey, wasn't Temu the sexiest butt in eRep? Can anybody answer me please.
Vanek, I will agree that problems started during Oblige's 4th term due to the exodus of Chile and Bulgaria from their respective alliances. It's my understanding each had the tendency to cause unrest while members.
It's what we have done since that concerns me.
Asturias Accor😛 good for US/Brazil only, with ONE using the peace in Spain more wisely.
Hungary: we had a chance to dissect Hungary's remote holdings from France to remove a threat, but chose to troll and engage Poland instead.