Botched Iran war, PANAM clings to Europe – What’s wrong with our foreign policy?
Sossu
Before the January’s election, the biggest critique aimed at Haliman, the winner of the election, was his apparent lack of experience on foreign policy. Though he rounded an experienced team to back him up to share the burden of this very important part of the President’s job, this month the foreign policy of USA has been without a clear, visible direction. January was a critical month in foreign policy as there was a crackdown in European power balance as Poland got fed up with Romania after all kinds of nasty conversations and conspiracies leaked to the media. As a result, Poland showed their dissent by refusing to renew a MPP with Romania and signed one with Hungary instead. The collapse of Phoenix, the wavering of Eden and the frail steps of a new power bloc being conceived, consisting only the absolute superpowers of Europe, meant that it was the perfect time for USA to further advance the concept of a vigorous, limited regional alliance, uniting the Americas under one banner, and most importantly, finally breaking free from being involved in Europe’s squabbles.
However, during Haliman’s term, PANAM has been seen cuddling with European nations who have grave antipathies towards their neighbors, drawing USA back to being in a supporting role for Europe if allied with. Especially trying to come closer with Turkey has made some European countries suspicious towards us, and as PANAM needs a worthy adversary, one that can only be found from Europe, in order to have a reason to exist, taking the war path against Iran and taking a hostile stand on Spain are definite ways to ensure that there will be countries pissed at us from both sides of the future division of Europe, a situation we don’t want to find ourselves from if we want to see our states untouched in the future. The MPP-policy USA has been sustaining during Haliman’s term suggests that PANAM is far from letting Europe go their own way, but as said, the plan to break in to Europe that was fundamentally flawed in the first place is earning us mistrustful looks from the very same countries we are trying to get acquainted with. Add the upcoming Atlantic war where Brazil and most likely France are once again going to tag team Spain, and we have a foreign policy mess that needs stronger leadership in order to stop America from being misinterpreted as a foreign political weathercock.
On what do we need Europe anymore, especially Poland?
USA joined PANAM in order to formally stay away from Europe’s eternal wars and to give a proper façade to the attempts to create new relationships with nations formerly considered as enemies. However, during this month we have been continuing our relationships with Europe re-signing MPP😒
with the same nations we were trying to, if not get rid of, at least move further away from. We don’t lack our daily battles, nor is there a direct threat towards USA, well at least not in plain sight. It seems like we’re protecting ourselves from something, even when PANAM is the only existing alliance with Eden, who certainly aren’t a threat to us. If the superpowers of Europe unite, USA would be a likely target and we’d need every possible help to protect our borders from invasion. For now this is not the case, and by fortifying our positions and trying to get half of Europe to even join PANAM we are actively pursuing for the bipolar world order to return, something PANAM was essentially founded to oppose. To make the mess resemble an utter fiasco even more, we’re curiously allying with both the old Eden and members of the proposed High5.
Our MPP-renewal with Poland which is currently voted upon is perplexing to say at least when we are denying MPP from their perhaps closest ally, Spain in a time span of under 24 hours. The Atlantic conflict where Spain erased Portugal but suffered setbacks by France is about to erupt in to a full scale war in a matter of hours as our close PANAM ally Brazil and Spain have declared each other as natural enemies. We can’t participate in to this war directly as our MPP with Brazil got erased when we attacked Iran, but staying out of the war in a long term would be both awkward to PANAM and harmful to Brazil. This is what PANAM was essentially designed for, taking care of the interests of geographically close nations and protecting the immediate hemisphere of the alliance. If we get drawn to the war with Spain, we will find ourselves from both sides of the fence with our MPP with Poland.
The true breaking point comes 4 days from now on Haliman’s final days as president. Our MPP with Romania is set to expire then, and if we want to preserve our relationship with Poland, resigning it is out of the question. If we are going to support Brazil in their war with Spain and fortify against the possible new superalliance, an alliance Romania won’t be a part of, cooperating with Romania would seem more logical. Our war with Iran however managed to piss off Bulgaria, an European power player and a close ally to Romania.
What we’re supposedly doing here is trying to be friends with all of Europe, which is impossible. We can’t play with two sets of cards. Being friends with Poland and kicking the living shit out of Spain can’t be done at the same time, nor can we be chillin’ with Romania and conspire against Bulgaria simultaneously.
Can’t have them all. At least at the same time
Our journey to Europe cut short.
Our successful war with Iran has quickly turned in to a nightmare as the announcement of our intent to travel all the way to Europe, quite like a reverse land bridge what Serbia used to get to Liaoning, turned Europe’s eyes on us and what started as a leisurely stroll through the Iranian countryside was culminated in a huge battle in Fars where we lost the battle and the initiative along with it. A successful RW was waged in NW Iran, and we are currently losing the direct battle in Esfahan and a RW in Hormozgan, reducing our Iranian regions to Sistan and Baluchistan. A war to entertain the American populace turned in to a determined campaign when questions were asked about the true motives of the war, which the Haliman administration revealed to be no less but to bulldoze a way to Europe and presumably challenge Serbia to a direct war with their original regions at stake.
This of course drew Serbia’s attention to Iran, and they put up a fight they ultimately won. Looking back at the plan to go to Europe through Iran, Turkey and possibly Bulgaria, vast strategical fallacies can be seen that raise questions if the plan was merely an attempt to bolster Haliman’s domestic image which was questioned when there was no apparent reason other than fun to engage Iran.
What comes to a war with Serbia, it’s a more of a wet dream than an actual operative plan. Reaching their cores that are nearly 20 regions away from our borders is complicated, time consuming and prone to mistakes, delays and obstacles. We couldn’t defeat Serbia on our own. We’d need help from the rest of Europe, and there is no logical reason why they’d rather see Serbia conquered by USA than themselves. I hope Haliman didn’t put Serbia as a target just to make the war with Iran look like a part of a bigger scheme, because it still does matter what the United States does and says. Now we’ve pissed Bulgaria, a nation with 22,000 citizens and close ties to Romania. They are currently provoked to think that we promised Turkey some of their regions or planned to follow Turkey to regions they had conquered without Bulgaria’s permit. If we are going to a war with Spain directly or indirectly, Romania and Bulgaria would go to the top on the list of possible European allies. It is not wise to aggravate them for our own security’s sake.
As a side effect of the war and a worrying sign of the apparent poor communication within PANAM is Brazil’s MPP with Iran. It was signed a day before they signed a MPP with us, 18 days ago. We declared Iran as our natural enemy 9 days ago and had fights with them in Balochistan about 3 days earlier (there aren’t time logs in war pages anymore, can’t say for certain) so either Haliman pulled the Iran campaign from his hat in 4 days or Brazil wasn’t notified of our intentions to invade Iran, something that would wreck our MPP and waste 100G from both nations.
We need some straightening to our foreign policy. Right now we’re planning utopian campaigns, pissing off people left and right while trying to be friends with everyone and failing to find WMD’s. PANAM isn’t going to work as it was designed if we’re amassing European superpowers to form a counter to the very same nations we are signing MPP😒
with. We need some serenity and stability to our foreign policy instead of running like headless chickens. We can’t be allied with Poland and hate Spain with the rage of a thousand suns at the same time. Looks like our President is going to try anyway.
I hope his successor is able to clear up this mess.
Comments
This article was written before Haliman's announcement to deny Spain the MPP. We might've signed the MPP with Poland in order to cover our asses from an attack, but that will prevent us from directly going to war with Spain. I'll try to write a piece reduced in lenght about the reactions of this announcement.
omg
summary?
We couldn’t defeat Serbia on our own. We’d need help from the rest of Europe
HAIL SERBIA
Voted, let's not get America killed guys. 😐
Yeah, your diplomacy sucks big time
good read
america has no goal. you have no real enemies here that might enlarge your ambitions in the game. that is the first and the major problem.
Just to add, Bulgaria sees Turkey as natural enemies no matter which alliance they choose.
There could be a problem too.
Good article v+s
USA made a big mistake with Bulgaria. That's one big fail.
Voted! And subscribed!
WTF, when did we PTO USA xD
Thanks for the sharp analysis, as always
good read as always Sossu...
being from Croatia, I feel pretty torn up in all this mess... Poland vs Romania, USA vs Spain... fck, all those countries fought for us, and us for them, on countless occasions... change is inevitable, but this is turning into total chaos... it not just the US, though you obviously have some serious issues as well...
good read
Voted. Good read.
"Can’t have them all. At least at the same time"
I did.
Good stuff, smart
@BeDva... I know what you mean :🙁(
We are in the same mess with Brazil - Hungary thing.
It's just that we used to play to much with hart then the others.
That is why Balkan is special and why we here are having wars for 2 years now ;😉)
Even if USA somehow got to our borders, they couldn't survive the intensity of fight.
Every single day on 3 or 4 different fronts?!
On the end they'll end up BANKRUPT.
Crazy Balkan :😁
PS. Bulgaria is strong country, but Sossu you got your numbers all wrong.
7400 are from Macedonia's conquered regions.
But still, strong and getting stronger by the day.
Believe me... 1:1 Bulgaria could kick your ass easily ;😉)
I cannot agree more.
Voted.
BeDva, it seems smrtan,vingaer and their party of trolls still trying to make spain and other eden contries to follow poland's traitor path so poland doesnt look like a traitor and dont remain alone and now they are messing in USA's internal affairs to make them seems hostile to Spain , so Spain has more "valid " reasons to follow smrtan,vingaer and their party of trolls without them being considered traitors like Poland is
Good shit man.
Voted good article
Very good read.
ErvinB, I doubt the US would go that far to please Poland considering they are getting friendly with Hungary and Serbia.
Nice article, maybe I will translate it to Hungarian, if you don't mind.
first of all, bulgaria doesn't have 22k citizens. Majority of them are macedonian citizens.
Voted for Truth. Great analysis.
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@Moorhuhn
respect komšija 😁
@ErvinB
I know a lot of this is the result of backroom scheming by smrtan and co. but it's obvious they're not the only problem.. still, I hope the people of Poland will chose new leadership and that things with get better then... but still, EDEN HQ needs to do some soul searching too, as well as our member countries and our non-EDEN allies...
and the USA-Spain issues go quite a while back also...
above all, we all need much more communication and mutual respect and understanding to get through this mess...
Srbija do Tokija!!!
vote! good article!
Yeah, I wish we could finally get a solid answer about Turkey/Greece/Bulgaria. I myself really would prefer not to ally with Turkey.
The only problem is the relation with Bulgaria. You manage that, it's ok. Romania is fine if our closest allies are fine. And after that we can go full force against the enemy.
USA in Balkans is fine for us: )
Nicely written, good critique.
Nice read o/
I coudn't agree more on the Brazil-USA MPP. We are currently dominating Spain on Canary Islands, but this is our Prime time, later the things are going to another level and maybe some scripts user may appear. Defending our boders should be the first goal of Panam. Canada is fighting right now England only to remember.
"We couldn’t defeat Serbia on our own. We’d need help from the rest of Europe"
This is wise and true.
@Bogdan_L
"And after that we can go full force against the enemy."
Ok, but who are you kidding?
When Hungary, together with Poland knocks on your door, we all know where will we see your full force. 😉
And that is perfectly NORMAL.
This whole new eRep concept is all about small alliances and everyone for him self.
We all just have to adapt.
Those who adapts faster will be the ones who will benefit the most.
Cheers to everybody, I'm off to bed 😉
Nice to read
Interesting article
A must read
awesome!
Do you want negotiation with Iran ? : D
Yeah, your diplomacy sucks big time x2
We couldn’t defeat Serbia on our own. We’d need help from the rest of Europe
HAIL SERBIA X2
You wanted to fight against Serbia, but You couldn`t even win against Iran?
Jedenz- maybe because it was USA versus I Ran, Serbia, Hungary?
anyway, good stuff.
@MCorleoneFamily : and if the USA come to Europe they will have to fight with those two countries everyday. : ) So, sup ?
This is a very good article, was a pleasure to read, thanks.
voted, nice article
To be fair, but for Bulgaria's reaction the only thing you'd have to complain about was european powers being considered for PANAM. Balkans 6_9
Nice article BUT.
"Now we’ve pissed Bulgaria, a nation with 22,000 citizens and close ties to Romania"
Bulgaria doesnt have that much citizens... Thats Macedonian people , who were conquered by Bulgaria few days ago..
@BeDva
Implying that that is not the will of the majority of Polish citizen's?
The Congress is elected by the citizen's they know who they are voting for and neither the old or the new congress has impeached smrtan meaning they support his derision's and i haven't seen much (if any) articles in the polish media that are against leaving EDEN allying with Hungary...