[USA] Trials and Tribulations
Derphoof
“Full frontal on Serbia? Yes or No.” - Artela
The day was the 25th of May, 2013.
Free Area had assumed the presidency of the AMP on the 15th, and revealed himself as a Serbian agent on the 25th by running Serbian accounts for congress, giving the AFA its largest congressional share in months.
The United States shared a border with Serbia in Aquitane, France. Serbia stretched from the Balkans, through Italy, and into France to get its desired resources.
The American people were outraged, and the world knew it. However, the world did not truly believe the US would engage in open conflict with Serbia. The Circle of Trust alliance had historically been on relatively friendly terms with its counterpart, TWO, which held the majority of the world’s firepower.
Still, The United States responded with an NE of Serbia on May 27th.
We attacked Serbia on May 28th in Aquitane. Although we lost the battle, we were able to eventually push into France, and had our border RW’d away as Serbia was pressured from multiple sides.
Then, as now, came the counter-punch.
Seven nations aligned with Serbia airstrike the USA, and occupy it until a final treaty with Poland and Spain was signed on October 16th, 2013.
It was a long and bruising war, started in good faith, but ended in predictably tragic failure. It was a war that damaged our esteem, and our community.
The USA was not a nation used to being wiped or conquered, as many nations around the world had grown accustomed to. The longest we had ever been wiped before was for about a few minutes. So, the USA took it especially harshly. Players left in droves, seeing no reason to come back.
So, a new phase began
Serving in the State Department and as Vice President in the latter half of 2013, Wild Owl began to shape American foreign policy anew.
Shaped by the prior events, WO embraced a new insulated foreign policy vision. The USA would not project its power as it did before, but only throw its weight around in supporting roles. It did so when allies were in dire need, and when US intervention would almost assuredly amount in victory.
If there’s one thing I learned about WO after all these years, its that he’s adverse to risk, and anything that would threaten our cores. He saw the events of 2013, and sought to avoid it at all costs.
As such, we made few enemies of those around us. Our borders were secured primarily by good relations. Our only “enemies” for a time were Spain, the UK and Indonesia, frequent targets of RWs and the occasional “real” war.
We used our strength and coordination to amass economic power, enriching the reserve and securing almost every resource within our borders. Following WO's efforts in the First Resource Wars, and Yui's efforts in the Second Resource Wars, we had no reason to expand borders for bonuses.
We could sit content within our borders, striking with precision and backing away quickly. We could defend our borders.
We could be safe.
While this was not the most exciting strategy, it was effective in its function. It became the modus operandi of American foreign affairs for years to come.
The USA was looked down upon for “being a bad ally,” “not helping enough,” and for embracing friendly nations that sat on opposing sides of larger conflicts.
Although we were criticized for these things, we took solace in our safety.
With our very secure situation in February of 2017, I wasn’t concerned about our safety. I wanted to take chances.
Wild Owl never actually wanted me to be president; let alone for six consecutive months. Letting me shape policy for that long would be yet another risk.
Like some others that came before me, he saw me as a threat to his vision. I wanted a clearer definition of which “side” we were on. Yui joined me in that idea. I wanted to go to war, and I wanted to bring the alliance along with me.
It invited risk, and it invited danger. Alienating a whole side does not come without risk of later retaliation.
With my goals in mind, I decided to coalesce our nation and alliance against the forces of Syndicate. Organizing the war, a fractured Pacifica came together to put an end to Syndicate, by airstriking Ukraine and Turkey.
America was more firmly on the side of Asteria, save one or two MPPs. Just as well, I began a detente with Bulgaria, via their CP at the time. Still allied to Greece, detente with MKD wasn’t an option without looking like a total d***.
By August, when I left office, we were making progress.
By December, it was gone.
”@Pfeiffer Wanna attack cro in thailand?” - Wild Owl - 01/29/2018
Later administrations did not take such an eager stance on befriending more Asterian nations. Nor did I stick around to actively shape foreign policy after the six months in office.
With a mix of backroom deals, shifting attitudes in government, and developments on the battlefield, the USA came to shift away from its Asterian focus. Eventually, the USA lost all of it’s Asteria MPPs, though not by design. While we maintained friendly relations with countries, MPPs were not welcome.
It was around this time that USA officials caught wind of conversations wherein Croatians were trying to organize a campaign against the eUSA. As most of the people in government already harbored a distaste of Croatia and desire to attack them, it only fanned the flames.
However, unlike our major war against Serbia, this was more out of the blue. No specific reason was given. No casus belli to rally the troops.
Croatia was a larger and more well-prepared target. Just as well, we had pissed off their allies by taking out Syndicate, our Asterian support was lukewarm, and BG-MKD largely didn’t like us after years of back and forth.
We lacked support and planning for such a war, and it showed.
Seeing our lack of support, I threw some sarcastic media at it from the standpoint of “arrogant American” going on “drunken rants.”
While I tried to make the most of it, much of America got upset.
“Why did we do this? Why spend so much money? WHY?”
Honestly, I think Congress was just misinformed. They voted for it, near unanimously. They didn’t see such a loss coming, and they didn’t see what would happen next.
With our AS struck down, and our friends having saved us in the Croatian response, the question lingere
😛
“When will the Croats try it again? Who will they bring?”
It was a repeat of the situation we experienced in 2013.
As it turns out, hatred can be a powerful motivator.
And so, Croatia organized the Coalition of the Hating. Croatia, Bulgaria, MKD, Lithuania, Egypt, Thailand, and (to a lesser extent) Ireland, got in on the action.
The rest is obvious to anyone who’s been paying attention and can read a map.
While we’ve restored friendly relations with Ireland, we have a long way to go with the other nations that currently occupy our territories.
Yet, we’ve been here before.
Just because we’re occupied, it doesn’t mean that this is the end of the world. We went through about 4 months of occupation in 2014, and we came out alive. Balkan nations and small nations have had to deal with this since the beginning of eTime.
Just like in 2013, our war has predictably ended in failure. It’s okay to acknowledge that.
We failed.
But failure is not the end. It can lead to new beginnings. New outlooks.
Last time, we came out with a different outlook and obtained 4.5 years of security and strength.
That’s a hell of a run. You can thank the Owl for that.
But, this war stings. There are hard times ahead. We will be bruised and beaten for a while.
Even still, chin up. Keep up the fight on the battlefield. Fight smart. (Even my paltry account contributes sometimes) Reach out, and build bridges in the larger community, nationally and internationally. Get to know our allies and our occupiers.
Maybe throw out some fun articles or a troll piece. Make the most of the situation.
So, brothers, don’t get weary. This too will pass, so long as we don’t give up.
This isn’t the end of the journey.
Comments
Stay engaged. Hail USA.
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Hail USA - http://www.hailrepairusa.com/paintless-hail-dent-repair-usa/
meh, boring game needs some action
You not wrong, friendo
I would not call it hate... far from it, it started as revenge and now its farm vile...
\o/
History repeats itself
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. (source disputed)
"I threw some sarcastic media" you through some shame at your name and you should apologize for that.
One correction: coalition consisted only of Croatia, Egypt, Ireland, and Thailand, of which all 4 most people here consider to be third-rate. Others are (pro)Asteria countries that joined later to grab your resources, and Hungary, which tried to escape deletion.
Too much Croatia in article wow
:V
Even though its a poor article regarding between 2013 & 2018 , it shows that how serious you take being wiped off map.
I would like to thank you for taking ''risks'' -which I would call ditching allies in most cases- and helping your country to get wiped once again. I like your articles, ppl take it seriously and you attract them into USA like a magnet.
V for derphoof
heh
Until end of server you will be erased becausw of your arogance and lies.
USA will never be with all regions never.
So be more arogant
This article makes it sound like you were against this move, that you sought the rational and sensible approach. But your "get bent Croatia we're going to crush you" articles did as much to inflame the situation as Pfeiffer did.
My "get bent" articles were also joke articles intended to make fun of perceived American "arrogance" and "exceptionalism", as I explained to WTR shortly after publication.
I mean, I wrote an article "shaming" Croatia for letting us win an air round in a battle. We got stomped 106-22, and I "celebrated" the 22. I called it a "reasonable" assessment, like I called the other a "reasonable" letter to Croatia.
How people don't pick up on the intended nonsense is beyond me.
>im not arrogant
>omg y u all so stupid tho
Not even Americans read your awful media, what makes you think any of us would want to waste our time doing the same?
da skratim clanak i nada u njemu,nadas se mpp-u sa srbima.???
hehehe
bombardovali ste ih u rl zar toga nisi svjestan
jedini as koji ste ikada imali u rukama je cs da date firmatorima
neznam bas koliko ste kome privlacni kao saveznici
nesvacas da na americkom tlu 5 drzava mogu zivjeti kao carevi sa vise regija nego kodkuce,a vjeruj sa time profitiraju svi osim vas amerikanaca
Ehm...
No.
Slightly different tone than "a reasonable letter" to Croatia?
Well, the "reasonable letter" was "unreasonable" and making fun of American arrogance, but yes. Different tone. I've got no reason to spit at Croatia.
You were misunderstud, your writting style was taken as a genuine. It was all a mistake in the communication, that happens sometimes.
1- Coalition : Croatia, Egypt, Thai and Ireland
2-Need regions to avoid deletion: Hungary
3-Jump to the train 'cos of bonuses: proAsteria and Asteria
Instead of Hating Coalition, I'd call it
1 - Revenge --> Farmville Coalition
2 - I need congress pls SerHun too stronk
3 - Farmville for free
USA😛layground
"Yet, we’ve been here before."
Actually, you're not. Who will fight for you now?
Well, unless I'm not remembering correctly, we have been here before. Back in 2013, after CoT dissolved, we were rather alone in the world. We didn't obtain our freedom primarily by fighting, but rather by diplomacy.
Just as then, I'm sure diplomacy will matter more than damage, in obtaining peace.
The current situation would be similar to CoT and TWO invading you at the same time and ignoring each other at your cores
"The Circle of Trust alliance had historically been on relatively friendly terms with its counterpart, TWO" - Not really true.
"It was around this time that USA officials caught wind of conversations wherein Croatians were trying to organize a campaign against the eUSA" - this is the biggest lie of all served to your community by Wild Owl.
I'm still waiting for you all to embarass yourself before publishing an article on USA.
"historically"
Until CoT accepted USA, they were on relatively friendly terms with TWO, primarily in the battles against EDEN. There were certainly CoT nations that wanted to keep friendly relations, even with USA in the alliance.
Also, I'm not saying WO is right. I've personally never seen any logs that may exist, no could I verify their authenticity. It's simply part of the narrative behind the first airstrike.
CoTWO was a thing back then. Spain knows best about that...
Don't confuse two different groups of countries wanting you off the map, for one group with some huge masterplan. The fact Asteria has been hitting at Croatia/Andes but doesn't touch their US regions shows that they're clearly not on the same page.
But kudos to you for allowing two groups of countries that never tolerate each other, to tolerate each other just to keep you wiped.
To be precise Romania immediately took away two regions from Croatia and one of them (New Hampshire) is already given back to the USA.
The map shows you why.
Tha map shows only that it could be done, not why it was done.
I joined shortly before everything started in May 2013. I remember being a noob and not understanding why we wanted France to liberate some of it's regions. I returned shortly before we wiped this time.
I remember late night RWs as we desperately tried to retake a single region so we'd have a congress for the month.
I read it and I did nod. Now I will also vote and endorse. I'm such a good boy.
When that is done, can we start organize some decent resistance now!? Less talk, mOar war.
A lot of fake information and self justifying.
First of all: one grand coalition led by croatia did not and does not exist. Croatia attacked together with egypt and ireland with thai joining later. The reason that coalition attacked is revenge and feeling of betrayel from your airstrike to croatia, the feelings got stronger because of ignorant behaviour from usa both government and citizens but in articles and in private messages between the two governments. Only after croatia won several regions first time did wild owl appear with a theory of us planing to attack USA before that. Still, zero communication towarda us.
Second coalition is mdk-bul-lit which we knew nothing about beforehand, they just jumped on a train that we started to get regions and bonuses. There was no big coalition or anything like that.
Second thing: croatia trying to organise large scale attack months beforehand is an utter lie served to you by wild owl after he noticed tha campaign going teribly wrong for your side and I already told him that in his article. Is it his original theory or he was tricked in it by someone else I do not know. Croatia had absolutely no means at the time for anything like that. We are making big weakly dmg now, but at the period that WO said we were planinning we were around 18th place and strugling to keep Thai regions and we were putting all our effort to increase the activity of out people and to help our south american allies, chile and argentina. No one was even thinking about USA. So even the idea of croatia being a larger and more prepared target is funny, especially when you compare it to Serbia. At the time of your AS, Croatia was at it's all time low with a year long continuos drop on power scale, getting weaker and weaker by the moment.
Third thing: untill last summer there were a lot of tries to organize an anti-asteria block where USA was seen as one of the more important members due to regions and bonuses and as well for your war reserves (which proved to be a lot, lot smaller than told or expected, since you were a long term president as well, maybe you know where they dissapeared?) but USA for months could not decide itself to which side they want to align thus making it immposible to organise. Everyone doubted that you're pulling our noses and in this article you finally confirmed it by saying you were more Asterian thus continuing to be unrelayable ally.
Forth: the timing of AS on Croatia shows 2 things: unreliable ally even in your own alliance
Fully pro-Asteria government
Why? You AS-ed during huge Asterian preassure on Hungary during which Croatia was putting biggest ally dmg for them and by that you efectively draged away that dmg so the Hungary was left without valuable help. By AS Croatia you have also deleted all of your antiAsteria MPPs with a single move. It was a move both against croatia and against hungary, the leading antiAstera voice in Pacifica. Calculated move, but a move that backfired.
Coclusion: you spent more than a year trying to get closer to Asteria while they clearly did not care about you and by doing that, while trying to get affection from someone who clearly did not like you but was strong kid in the yard (and my guess is that was a lot because of polish influence), you destroyed the bonds that others who did like you were trying to maintan and deepen.
Vote, a sad na čitanje
Good stuff. Happy days ahead!
All true what you said... But, you forgot to mention one fact. -Work tax... Raising it from 2% to 4% just made you the most hated farm country in the world. You were supposed to be a new China with your resources and taxes,as you promised at the time when players had to choose a country or a region for their holdings.And that happened. Once you betrayed your "economy-boosters", you got doomed to disaster. Only a spark was needed to assemble a hell of an army of farmers from different countries and alliances to storm you and punish you for the treason that your government done.
I had 450 companies in Nebraska and i sold them all.
The money/gold i have, i will gladly spent for keeping u occupied.