Order in the Chaos: War with Belgium
Spir Tus
This time a very short article, because I don't have time right now to write a full article. Usually I explain a debate or someting weird to you and with the help of the community and the replies we will have an overview of this phenomenon. This time it's different because I don't know anything about the war with Belgium. This 'article' is written out of pure frustration.
Apparently, we have a war with Belgium. I have read some other fun articles and frustration articles about the war the last couple of days, but still no official statement of the government, while the war has already begun.
A couple of days ago the Belgium Congress has voted for the Netherlands as Natural Enemy. Eventually, we did the same thing, as well as signing two Mutual Protection Pacts with Chile and Poland. Noone would have know this, except the congress and government members. The government didn't explain anything about this, only some congress members were talking about this in public. That's the reason I know about this war, otherwise I wouldn't have noticed at all.
Why are we in war with Belgium? Is it a Training War? I don't know. Maybe. There are some people who say it is, but also people who say it isn't. According to the voting, congress agrees with the war plans of the government. What is the meaning of this war? Do we have to fight hard, is there something at stake? Maybe. Some people say there is a threat of losing regions, so losing congress seats in the upcoming congress elections.
In the meantime the national MU has been informed, and has given instructions to their soldiers for this war. It's nice we have instructions, but I'm not a robot and I want to know why we are fighting our ally.
It is one of the most important jobs of the government to inform people. Especially those who don't know anything about everything, because they aren't in congress or the government themselves. There is a lot of difference between being in an official function and being just a citizen. The availability of the information is completely different. In my opinion, government should keep this in mind.
The question is, who failed in the provision of information? I don't know exactly. We didn't see anything from MoD/MoA, or the CP or anything about the government. Also the most congress members didn't provide the community with information. The latter is maybe caused by the fact the information about the war is classified and it's forbidden for CM's to talk about classified information outside the secret Congress area.
Spir Tus
A Bastion of Truth
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True story, nice written. I am really fed up with the lack of information!
how very nonchalantly of our leaders regarding this situation...
"We didn't see anything from MoD/MoA" - We did. There was article written by me, but i was forced to delete it, as NSPP said.
So i decided to NOT write anything again, instead i started to give informations straight to Commanders.
You know why citizens are not informed ? Cause its "CLASSIFIED " for now ( Not by us ).
Agreed, but why dont MoD publish orders? Something is better then nothing, and official orders from our MoD would be fine!
Orders will/should be provide by Commanders now. I bet we all exacly knows what to do and what happening - if not : http://www.erepublik.com/en/main/law/United-Kingdom/152902
We can't have a war without citizens knowing there is a war. It is impossible for NSPP for asking us to secretly fight this war, without anyone knowing about this.
A war is very important for a nation. You can't fight a war on own territory without anyone knowing what to do. Even a little explanation is good enough for citizens to at least know there is a war going on.
Ask me in PM then, or on IRC just as many of us did. I will not write anything that is classified on public
It is not the job of citizens to ask for information. It is a job of the government to provide information to the citizens.
That's the point. It shouldn't be classified. It is impossible and outrageous to fight a secret war.
i can understand why not publish it, because the strategy can failed if all know the plan. The population is not fine with secrets, and the government is not fine to keep the silence too.
According to the voting, congress agrees with the war plans of the government.
when an NE is placed on your country it would be foolish not to respond. even if congress disagrees with the CP.
If congress doesn't agree with the CP, they are able to impeach the CP. They didn't, so they agreed. Of course, I know, impeachment leads to nothing right now, because we already impeached the last one.
But citizens doesn't know that, so for the citizens it looks like an agreement. For me at least.
Congress voted against the TW because of wrong circumstances.
eBE NE'd us, and congress had to vote again while we didn't agree in the first place, this time with our backs against the wall resulting in a yes.
circumstances are still not ideal but congress had to accept the proposal of two MPPs in order to make sure we win the war that shouldn't have started yet in the first place but was pushed.
We are at war now there's nothing we can do about it NSPP countries rushed into this resulting in poor communications and oposing parties in congress and government.
http://enetherlands.nl/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=12876
information on possible actions to be taken because of the recent hapenings can be found in the public sections of congress debates.
I agree with you Spir Tus communications is very ppor and citizens should know these things, this time even congress wasn't kept up-to-date resulting in this whole situation.
Impeaching the CP is a last measure... In this case, to me as an ordinary citizen that does not seem like a logical step yet.
In this case Belgium was the country who declared us their NE first. We responded to that by also declaring them our NE. We got dragged into this war. If a secret congress vote for a TW with Belgium was rejected, than our congress clearly did not agree.
i want to make more fun in the press... my english is not perfect but better ^.^
I'll have to agree with you.
As just a 'normal' citizen i have no idea what exactly is going on.