Airstrikes; War continues

Day 2,041, 06:47 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by Thomas765
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The war against CoT continues

Bulgaria to be wiped for congress?

Greece has been making significant progress against Bulgaria in the Middle East, with Bulgaria attempting to defend their last region, Al Bahah in order to have a congress election this month. It should be noted that if a country does not have a region on the 23rd at 1 am eRep time, they won't have a congress.

The USA struggling?

The USA is down to 15 regions, which means that by the morning on the 25th, they'll only have 2 regions left for their congress elections. This could be both fatal for them or a gift. With the American Freedom Alliance (AFA) back in the top 5, less congress spots overall will mean more citizenship passes for every congressman elected. Their power guarantees them at least 22% of the total vote in the election, so it'll be interesting to see how the congress elections go over in America.

The lack of direct support from allies, such as Indonesia and Mexico only suggests that America want this invasion.

Airstrikes

Countries proposing an airstrike
- Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) (CoT)

Countries which have food supplies for an airstrike
- Austria (TWO)
- Bulgaria (CoT)
- Chile (CoT)
- Cyprus (NaN)
- Denmark (neutral)
- Hungary (TWO)
- Japan (CoT)
- Netherlands (neutral)
- Portugal (neutral)
- Romania (neutral)
- Singapore (neutral)
- South Africa (NaN)
- Turkey (neutral)
- United Arab Emirates (neutral)

Countries which have 50% or more of the food requirement
- Australia (TWO)
- China (neutral)
- Egypt (NaN)
- France (neutral)
- Greece (TWO)
- Poland (TWO)
- Republic of China (Taiwan) (TWO)
- Republic of Moldova (CoT)
- Saudi Arabia (NaN)
- Slovenia (TWO)
- USA (CoT)

Analysis

Six TWO nations are relatively close to obtaining their airstrike supplies, if they have not done so already. We had seen last week that both Thailand and Montenegro, despite being relatively small nations, were able to use their airstrikes against the USA successfully with the support needed to help them. Supporters of some TWO nations, including Romania, China and Turkey all have the ability to start an airstrike if they see fit. Five CoT nations, plus France, Denmark and the Netherlands all have the ability to airstrike. However, due to the very one-sided damage between CoT and TWO, it is unlikely that many of these nations may be able to use them successful without considering TWO support to nations that they airstrike, as is seen by the mass-MPPing of Pakistan by TWO countries when Macedonia proposed them as an airstrike location.

It is interesting to note the speediness with which Slovenia has been gathering food resources for their airstrike, indicating that they are planning one in the near future.

What could TWO use their airstrikes on?

Despite having the damage advantage, Australia is still struggling in regaining their country. Given that TWO's only far Eastern countries are Thailand, Australia and New Zealand, it is a very difficult position for TWO nations to get to while CoT hold most of the geopolitics in that area. TWO could use one or several of their airstrikes to help liberate Australia from Indonesia.



The possibility of a British airstrike?

As our finances indicate, we aren't a very rich nation. An airstrike would take a lot of our resources both as a nation and as citizens. Personally, given that airstrikes are thrown around these days, I believe we could get going on supplying food for our airstrike as and when the need or desire arises. Why? Well, the first thing that comes to mind is the ability to have fun but also the ability to escape should we ever be in a situation where we could lose our regions rapidly due to invasion. We are now completely surrounded by enemies if you take into account of original regions - Belgium, Germany and the USA are CoT; Canada and Norway are Asgard; France is as good as our natural enemy; Ireland is just there but we have a NAP for now. So we could be in a dire situation in the future when the tide turns and it's always best to be prepared for whenever that occurs.

Who would be our target?

There are plenty of nations that aren't allied that could be targets, including Japan, Malaysia (East India Trading, let's do it!) and Moldova. The fact that Macedonia, however, is running away from their airstrike in Pakistan suggests that countries with an astounding level of support, regardless of their size, are still a threat. Our allies in Montenegro and Thailand are examples of this. You wouldn't have expected them to airstrike the USA successfully when Romania couldn't even get into Mexico a few months prior.