The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Day 1,113, 20:55 Published in South Africa South Africa by Miyagiyoda


Yesterday, eBrazil invaded eSouth Africa for the umpteenth time.

We have been asked to support this violation since:
a) eBrazil promises to liberate us from PTO
b) eBrazil promises to keep certain resource regions rent free for 3-months
c) eBrazil implies that it promises to actually eventually pay rent

There are several problems with this. The first being the a Brazilian promise is less substantial than dew on hot summer's day. If you can name a single promise that they have ever kept towards South Africa; you are remembering wrong. We words honourable and Brazilian do not occupy the same though space. Let's break down the substance of these promissory notes.

Liberators
Conquest does not equal political freedom. eHungary dominates eSouth Africa because they outnumber us at least 3:1. We won't get into the reasons why, but the hard reality is that even if the country is conquered and open citizenship achieved; who is going to fly to our aid? Our allies are embroiled in wars far removed from out troubles, and Phoenix's "political machine" is in full tilt with an explosion of "new" players. Unless we are to adopt the ethics of Phoenix - which our current predicament proves we don't - we don't stand a snowball's chance in hell.

Tenants
Brazil believes that Gauteng and other regions are theirs by right of conquest. We have been down this road before and they a simply squatters with no intention of paying for anything. The situation is made worse when you wake up to the fact that the resources will be used to fund their war machine to continue supporting Phoenix and their dubious methods. This is a lose-lose situation for us. More so, since we are not in political control, and are a tiny community whittled down to nothing and kept there by bare-faced abuse, South Africa is not ours to give. Giving away Gauteng or Western Cape is a death sentence to us. It kills all hope of our population growing. It is agreeing to genocide.

"If you give me a burger today I'll gladly pay you Tuesday."
Based upon Brazil's past performance, a promise to pay is as good as a Standard Bank cheque issued in Lesotho. The only sane choice is for them to pay upfront. They deserve no credit because they are a bad credit risk. In fact, nothing less than a lay-by is acceptable or cash in advance. The lack of trust is not us eBrazil, its you.

While I have no love for the current bunch who are a blight on the name of decent eHungarians; at they don't lie to our faces. That's something with more substance than the hot air that passes for negotiations in eBrazil.

Amandla, Awethu.