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There is VICTORY in UNITY...
So where is there no UNITY in VICTORY?
http://tinyurl.com/unityandequality

I'll probably regret all of the thinking I could potentially have to do as a result of this article, but whatever. As a CoT member I have the right to ramble endlessly- or is that a USA exclusive privilege too?

I forgot to mention it's already happening (CoT falling) - we've lost SK. Who is next?

I believe Circle of Trust needs to check on what really matters to the foundation of the alliance- unity and equality.

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"The only countries that get heavy, even constant attention in CoT are the ones that benefit the United States."

Yes, they play alliances to extend their own power. We've seen it before, its how they think and approach alliances. That's why they always want to be the leaders of the alliance. Its why they left EDEN, because it wasn't working for "them", its why they left Terra because CTRL offered them more assistance on the battlefield, i.e. damage. And its why CTRL failed because they thought they could boss the real leaders of that alliance, cue Poland renewing its Serbia MPP.

Great article, and excellent expose of CoT alliance waffle and propaganda. An alliance that claims to treat all as equal yet in practice favors the eUS is obviously completely hypocritical. Any alliance which claims some sort of "moral right" is just full of bs anyway, we saw it with EDEN. Though at least with EDEN we had a golden period were their claims to be not-about-the-damage and to fight for all members were actually true.

Small countries are basically irrelevant, CoT is built on the flawed principle that a community of thirty active guys is equal to one of two thousand. There are American MUs with more active players than you. Probably a dozen of them.

That's true. Politics-wise though (although "the big red button" is the focus of it usually) smaller nations have just as many responsibilities as the larger ones (and more, with increased PTO threat).

CoT is right for having an equal vote between countries imo (it's like the American senate/house merged kind of, equal votes but bigger names usually carry more sway), but the flawed principle lies in the false promises it broadcasts to the world.
((I'm the king of rambling even in comments wow))

Ceterum censeo COT builds Q5 hospitals in all US regions.

Iain Keers already said it, that's the truth. It's painful, but it's the truth.
From personal experience in HQ, even when small countries had to propose somebody to lead the Alliance, they had problems to find one person for that job, so in the end, somebody from another country must lead. Look now, Potato is already 3 times SC, he must be tired already, but I am sure no any person from a small country is daring to take into his job

All what you said is true, but you must take in count this part that Iain mentioned

see my comment above, but when it comes to countries failing to find someone to do a job is a failure by the government/president, not a consequence of being a small nation.

for Swiss people: I think that's a problem Switzerland has been facing the past few months with the AIM governments this year but anyway

"I am sure no any person from a small country is daring to take into his job" this is false, there is always someone (in my country at least, which is the smallest mind)
it's just an internal failure when that person isn't found/recognized

lol Switzerland has lots of internal/infrastructure problems imo but it's not because we're so small

yup, is definitely not consequence of being small nation, big nations have this problem too, but is more often in small nations cause of small population.
all countries have internal/infraestructure problems always, big or small.
today's HQ is all eAmerican, no exceptions. I see many people complaining, but I wonder if others offered themselves to be in their places, or if presidents proposed/asked to have other people.

but good article remi.remi, maybe some slept people can wake up like this

Potato failed the first month and keeps failing every next one... He's not tired, he's eager for power when he keeps proposing himself to that position and we can all see that he sucks and is uncapable to do something to prove his worthyness in being SC!

one small detail: CPs are those who vote and finally decide who will be in HQ, maybe potato propose himself, but are CPs whose voted for him to be SC, so...

This doesn't make him less relieved from being honorable with himself and see if he does something actually or only does bad to the alliance like in the case...

I personally don't accept him as SC and he is not SC of CoT for me. I don't care about his orders and so are others I suspect...

perfectly put

Voted nigga

small countries must fight with diplomacy.
have to buy their freedom with words, friendships and some money.
there is no other way to survive. (baby boom is always an option)
no big country will spend dmg on countries that can not keep their land.
eUSA is no good friend. they only watch for their own interests.
they broke every alliance they was in.
so try to be neutral, and try to make deal with neighbors for at least one territory before congress and make eFriendships with as much countries as you can.
and at the end of my comment. i think that COT have to admit that they are to weak to win. disassemble so we could make some new alliances and keep this game alive if we can.

Could you give me a reason please why would Serbia, Poland, Hungary, Spain, Greece and Romania abandon each other (:

maybe because in every country there is opposite sides. nider all polaks likes serbs, nider all serbs like greeks and so on... like in rl, politic parties have to work on global scales and to try to push their interests in other countries. there is lot of work if someone want to do it. but it is much easier to push fight button and chase for BH or things like that. 🙂

this isn't a reason to willfully lose a monopoly....

1. Yup, diplomacy is the only way, that much is obvious to everyone
2. USA needs to do some soulsearching if they don't want everyone to hate them imo
3. Ohhh boy you have no idea, not that I'd expect you to coming from Serbia. Neutrality for most (I'm saying most cuz I haven't actually looked into it but it's at least true for a few) small nations just does not work. Switzerland for example is smack in the middle of Europe where any almost European country could easily get a land bridge, and now with AS's anyone could attack it, even if our neighbors weren't so hostile. Neutrality opens the window for some friendships, yeah, but when you're not in an alliance it means countries can do whatever they want to you with no consequence.

If you try to look at the maps of small neutral countries in the eworld today (or at any point in time), you'll have a tough time because they are constantly wiped, even when they have good friends. The arguments below regarding game mechanics are relevant to this because yeah we're f*****.

Great article , but i can't agree with some of your views of the CoT politics and mainly because of the lost game - erepublik.
If this is a strategic game and you know little history you would also knew that NEVER military out-numbered units were losing the battles ( cause the tactics was everything ) . In this case - this game ,if you have more players (fighters) in your division or if you have RL money to spend for the game , then its a clear win battle, SO, WHERE IS THE FUN OF THE GAME,whats strategic here? 😒...
So, I honestly suggest you , dont take it too hard,cause its not a game anymore,its only Plato ATM ( true, cause there are still people who are giving money for this )...V+S my friend,o/

Agreed, but hey we gotta work with what we got

goood

wow

The crappy game mechanics of the game ensure that small nations are always screwed over. It's a shame that most alliances don't seem to help to combat that.

Short version of what I said below. 🙂

100% true, but if alliances wanted to create powers (which would certainly be beneficial to them) in small countries they definitely could (and no I don't mean via PTO cough thailand new zealand)

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I read the article and various comments. Everyone has a point. Some closer to the truth than others but still missing the mark. There are several points to consider.

> Plato has created a war mod that is broken. 😃
- It is impossible for even the strongest to survive outside an alliance.
- Only the strongest alliance can win.
> CoT does not have a plan. If they do I have not discovered it yet.
- Random fighting.
- Knee jerk reaction to events.
- Pet countries.
- Late responses.
> Larger countries like the US have people in charge that 'think' they know something.
- Anytime one person or a small group control a countries actions they should have a clue.
- Chest thumping and bravado do not count as intelligence.
- FA is not forcing your will on smaller countries in an alliance.
- These people keep repeating the same failure over and over.
> Public opinion is governed by 13 year olds. (Sorry, but that's the truth.)
- Rhetoric about "We are going to show you!", "We are better than you!", etc. is for the schoolyard.
- People have an unworkable idea but it strikes a cord with reactionaries so that is the only way!

FWIW, We can only save one country at a time. We cannot help this one today and that one tomorrow. Simple logic says rescue the big country first as they will have the most resources and damage. That is not to say the US is first in line. They have resources and damage but those are misused and wasted.

thumbs up!

Great article, but "And yes, Hail the United States of America!" wasn't a good end for it

thanks and lol I felt bad for bashing the USA so much when really I do appreciate/love it. And of course I like the hail-all countries rather than just hail cot when relevant and USA is last alphabetically

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Personally, when I wrote the headlining piece about the USA, it's war with TWO, and the treaty, I was writing it in a way that basically summed up the war and gave it an exit. In writing that CoT "wishes the USA well as they begin the rebuilding process," I was writing it with the hope that I won't have to write about the USA again.

I don't want to write about the USA.

I'd much rather write about the triumph of smaller nations standing up to their large oppressors and becoming free once again. I want to write about the alliance coming together to lift up the smallest and weakest among us, not just the strong. I want to see the community, unity, and equality of CoT on display in the field of battle.

I put such a big emphasis on community in the article because I want the community to shine in these trying times, with it's values of unity and equality; the values the alliance was founded on. I don't want to see a select few get all of the attention. As a former CP of Canada, I know the struggles of smaller nations and their fight against larger opponents. I love seeing the smaller nations get heavy support from their allies (Well, at least when those small nations are on our side). As such, I don't want to constantly write about the USA and other larger nations while neglecting the smaller ones.

I want to write about Peru overcoming the might of Argentina.
I want to write about the Swiss breaking the chains of Slovenian oppression.
I want to write about the French being freed from Polish bondage.... and so on,
All with the help of the CoT community.

I sincerely hope that the HQ will come through for the smaller nations and give me the opportunity to write about their triumph on the battlefield.

Thank you tons for your response 🙂

I of course want the same things, with smaller countries winning (being biased towards one lol) and the sense of community fully intact. I appreciate that there is a lot of news (and conclusions) from the US currently but this is a trend that has been going since USA joined CoT (and really in every alliance the US has been a part of).

The situation in Peru is unjust, the situation in Switzerland is complicated, the situation in France is extremely unfortunate, and the situation in the USA is s****y as well. The difference between attitude and the amount of respect shown towards each issue (and the other issues in between) is where the negative aspect of CoT lies.

Beginning of my bias towards just Switzerland rather than small countries lol:
Switzerland hasn't had a congress since June. In the same amount of time USA didn't have a congress once. In that month there were quite a bit of problems that arose since a congress is needed for many functionalities.
This same problem (which is the SAME problem despite population) has been in Switzerland for nearly half a year.
Switzerland contributes the smallest military, pays the least taxes, and has the smallest population of CoT. We're a leech on CoT as it stands.
If CoT could invest a fourth of the time it does in the USA, Switzerland would have a chance to get an income that isn't less than our population, more Swiss based MU's (we had to turn a significant one away last month as there was no congress to let them in), and most importantly the opportunity for immigration.

As for extended triumph for us on the battlefield, this will never happen until CoT takes all of its members seriously. The fact CoT doesn't have a puppet alliance like ACT is another (positive) defining factor of CoT.

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To reference US history (I know, ironic): the difference between CoT and TWO is like the North and South in regards to slavery. CoT has taken the step to make all nations equal, so that's our civil war down. The problem isn't done, though, until we can get our civil rights movement in place. This is all in the context of politics and representation, mind.

Thanks again for your response!

v+s
Great article! o/

thanks 🙂

v&s

we should be always united and loyal to our friends.