What is wrong with proSyndicate? Guide how to trainwreck and blame it on others

Day 3,431, 10:15 • Published in Finland Finland • by TheJuliusCaesar

[The content of this article doesn't represent the view of Pacifica and is completely my own thought]

Greetings,

As you may or may not have noticed, a certain article was published a few hours back. To summarize its contents, it was deemed a fault of Pacifica that proSyndicate is an utterly dysfunctional, disorganized mess of a group with no coordination or cooperation. Bypassing all the blatant historical revisionism and the shameful omitting of Yui as the one behind USA's current foreign policy, the article cited above is pretty much the perfect example of an idealist approach to Foreign Affairs, an approach which I have earlier outlined in here. It is worth quoting in length how I conceptualized the approach:

"One approach -- concentrates on moral justification and deep personal feelings. Whether the background lies in real life nationalism or nations’ past acts in the game, the result is often a polarized and inefficient outcome. It is perfectly okay to conduct one’s affairs this way, but it is amusing to witness the endless complaints of nations using the methodology regarding unfair ganging up or dishonesty of other countries. If you choose to utilize your resources inefficiently, I suggest you rather take a long look in the mirror than blame others for your own decisions. In short, the approach could be labeled as an idealism of sorts - fighting for what you think is right, even at the cost of your nation’s wellbeing. There is no guarantee that what you think is right is indeed objectively right, though. While nearly every country, and their administrations respectively, have certain prejudices and negative feelings towards a country or two, resorting fully into this manner of organizing foreign affairs can easily be exploited by others."

And indeed it has been exploited and most likely will be continued to get exploited. Here for you is a guide how to alienate your possible friends and allies with incompetent diplomacy and continuous fingerpointing for one's own faults:


1. Not contacting anyone about anything
During my four-month (and continuing) tenure as a Secretary General of Pacifica, I haven't once been approached from the proSyndicate side. I myself messaged the leader of the alliance at the start of the term, only to receive a response of a few lines. If one was to believe that together Pacifica and proSyndicate could beat Asteria, one should contact Pacifica to get them on board. No one has been doing that, only God knows why.

2. Blaming everyone but themselves for their situation
The article which provoked me to write this response is, in fact, a nice embodiment of the fingerpointing mentality. In stead of doing anything to the prevailing situation via diplomacy or other means, the nations in Syndicate and those close to them have repeatedly sought to blame every imaginable counterpart but themselves for their current misery. Newsflash: it is of your own doing. I can sell you a mirror if you need one.

3. Alienating your only possible friends in the current alliance setting
This point pretty much intertwines with the two above. By, on one hand, not contacting privately the only possible allies in the current alliance setting, and on the other, publicly blaming them for your own misery, you really do not enhance your possibilities of any cooperation with anyone. Blaming Pacifica, an alliance which seems to be far superior to the ones blaming in protecting their members' interests, in no way heightens the desire within Pacifica to cooperate. I am most sure this is the case everywhere.

4. Unwillingness to acknowledge your mistakes, leave alone trying to fix them, learn from them
The current alliance setting has been going on for years, literally. The power balance has not changed that much, if anything it has tipped more in favour of Asteria. Yet those opposing Asteria haven't changed a thing, never mind that their situation has grown worse and worse as the time proceeds. proSyndicate has failed to even acknowledge the points 1-3 - and everything starts from acknowledging one's mistakes.

Diplomacy paves way for military. Politics create the context in which the military operates. You can burn thousands of euros from your credit card to be able to push the red button more, but you can't determine the framework where you fight and with who, against who. It is truly heartbreaking to see that the leaders of certain nations and blocks still don't get it that everything starts with diplomacy, with politics. Without diplomatic success one has no military success. With diplomatic failure comes military failure. Some do get it masterfully and are currently exploiting the fact that the others don't.


Actions have consequences, but the absence of actions usually leads to predominantly bad consequences.

- Caesar