On Foreign Affairs
eUK Home Office
This evening, we're interviewing former country president and current Minister of Foreign Affairs, temujin94, about everything from the war on home soil to his black book of contacts across the international soil. If you have comments or questions, he's always happy to respond to queries.
1. This month, it’s a marked change from being President to being the Minister of Foreign Affairs. How do you feel that this experience will assist you in the role?
Well being CP brings it’s own unique experience, not just in Foreign Affairs but in all ministries. It gives you a insight into all of them and I’m under the impression that most ex-CP’s could be a minister anywhere on the cabinet. I’ve been MoFA before so hopefully I’ll get everything running on the right track.
2. You’ll be known across a host of different nations. Do you feel that this “black book of contacts” will help you in gaining greater support and priority for British battles?
I suppose it could help but really with ONE fighting on so many fronts and with so many nations either wiped or close to it, it’s hard to convince foreign troops to fight for you when they are one battle away from not having a country, maybe as the month progresses that may change but for now we need to rely more on what we can do here than what we can expect from ONE
3. The current war with France, Ireland and Canada is a major issue for all of us. Will you be taking a particular approach in acquiring support from ONE nations for battles?
We’ll be focusing mainly on nations at war or bordering these nations. If they are fighting us instead of Spain/Poland/Whoever than it’s a lot better for them so hopefully they’ll be able to provide more troop support for these kind of battles than to others.
4. The Country President has stated that “leaving ONE is not an option”. Would you agree with that statement? If so, why?
Yes, 100%. We have theoretically 3 options, Neutrality, Joining Teden or staying in ONE. Neutrality as anyone alive during the break up of PHX was incredibly boring and one our worst periods since I’ve started the game. Joining Teden, this has been done before, we have very few friends in the alliance and since we quit to join ONE we may not even be granted membership. This leaves us with ONE who dominated Teden at it’s formation and only until recently has Teden gained the upper foot, we have to weather the storm as best we can and extract or vengeance when the time comes for ONE domination once again. Of course some say we should be Pro-ONE because that way we are not a target for Teden. This may have been true when France and Germany and a host of other nations were wiped, but now that they are on the front foot, they want to expand and they don’t care if you are ONE or Pro-ONE so this way we keep the same wars but we have a say in alliance politics.
5. Quite a few people might be aware of the Strasbourg Treaty which was, in essence, a non-aggression agreement. How do you feel that the soil of foreign affairs has changed to allow this collapse of the treaty?
I was always Pro-ONE but I never fought against them while we were in ONE. They’ve been looking to break up the treaty for quite a while and tried to pass on the blame to us when we signed a MPP with Belgium, but in reality they signed one with Ireland and really France left more friends than us behind once PHX disbanded so I don’t think they can really place all the blame on us along with Germany
6. Ireland proposed a deal which was to offer them a region of oil in return for a region of fruit but was heavily biased in their favour. What would you say to the public about this deal and why it was rejected?
This is Ireland being simple yet again. No nation currently occupying us could strike a deal and actually hold the region for longer than 2 weeks, it just would not happen, which would mean constant NE’s and a worthless and time consuming deal. The best thing is either to sign for original regions or just weather the storm until we gain a equal foothold again
7. Both TERRA and EDEN are now having major successes across the globe having pushed Poland out of the US and pushing into Western Europe. How will you, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, liaise with other ONE nations to turn the tide?
Well I’ve now been involved with ONE quite closely for 5 months now throughout my presidency and also 2 MoFA terms, alliances always have good periods and bad periods. Turkey leaving has hurt ONE quite badly but ONE will recover and there is quite a few things going on behind the scenes which could bring ONE back into the dominant position they once where.
8. Let’s imagine a hypothetical situation in which France and Canada both propose a peace treaty that requires the sacrifice of regions? How likely is it that we would be accepting this deal, given the to- and fro-ing between nations?
Very unlikely. As I’ve already mentioned those countries don’t actually have the manpower to hold our regions for longer than 2 weeks even with our consent. This means we’d need to be NE’d constantly to give them back and it would end a lot of possible wars for us for quite a while so it’s better to just fight on in the current situation.
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IMPERIUM
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Imperium
Why would you even dream that EDEN or TERRA would ever accept your useless existence? Let alone let you not be wiped as you deserve?
idk they seem to put a fair amount of effort into trying to hold our regions
bit silly arent they
nice article 🙂
>effort
>holding uk regions
>alfa not tanking
And Strasbourg was shat on by the UK when you begged Poland and Spain for MPPs, that was the blow that killed it. That's the "reality" of it.
Even up until very recently France had turned down MPPs with Ireland because it would have made it harder for them to honour the part of the agreement about not hitting in original regions, even though for months before that you had no such qualms about doing exactly that by signing MPPs with their oppressors.
It's funny now that UK's only hope is Poland coming to the rescue, a country where a considerable amount of their population just simply do not like you.
Reap.
What.
You.
Sow.
Yeah because France didn't sign MPPs with America before we signed ones with Poland
GJ Irishbhoy
Reap.
What.
You.
Sow.
lol what a fool, France signed MPPs with America while you also signed MPPs with America at that stage. In fact there has not been a war between USA and UK in all the time that France had US MPPs. You joined the same alliance as both USA and France so why you felt the need to mention something so irrelevant to the point I made in my previous post defies belief.
GJ "MoFA"
@Blacksat😕OL Your nuts 😛
Ibhoy, you know better than anyone that eUK governments only pick cabinet members with selective memory. Most of the time so indoctrinated by their own delusion, their timeline of international events is significantly different from everyone else. The fact he seems to have missed out the fact eIreland has offered various trade deals for months has nothing to do with their productivity but has been a peace offer. The reason eUK government doesn't accept them is solely down to the fact that if the eUK ever signed peace with eIreland, that wouldn't make them seem very proONE - which their jump ship governments have been trying everyso hard to push the eUK towards. Keers loves his propaganda, if fighting against TEDEN is the norm, who is going to question that?
Ironic he calls us simple. Predictable roleplayers.
ROFLMAO!!!
UK has an option to join TEDEN? u serious bro? You can't just join the alliance you want, UK has a terrible reputation as an ally, as CP of Canada I would vote against this in EDEN no problem.
Also, why would Canada and France sign a peace treaty in exchange for regions when we can just keep them on our own terms? Furthermore, why wouldn't UK be interested in permitting Canada and France to keep regions in exchange for something back, isn't that better than what you have now?
Clearly Addy can't read, at no point did I say we could join Teden it was a 'theoretical' option for those in our country who wanted to leave. Also at no point in the article did I say that we would even try and enter a deal with you as you are unable to hold regions so please try again Addy or just stick to numbers like you normally do.
ITT: UK proves it has no idea what it is doing
Judging by how often you comment on UK articles Addy, your presidency must not be very busy.
If I'm honest I enjoy being at war with Ireland.
If we weren't at war Seanan and Paddy would never drop by to say 'hello' as often and that would make me a sad panda.
Also, the war with Canada has meant we see more of Addy, which is never a bad thing.
I'll put the kettle boys, tea all round?
"We have theoretically 3 options, Neutrality, Joining Teden or staying in ONE."
Joining Teden is not an option but for more than the reasons you give, Teden wouldn't want UK because of their reputation.
"As I’ve already mentioned those countries don’t actually have the manpower to hold our regions for longer than 2 weeks even with our consent."
UK was wiped on Dec 23, it is Jan 10, its been more than two weeks and you are staying down another wipe. Please clarify if you "consented" to having no congress this month or is this part of your plan to lure us into a false sense of security?
"Judging by how often you comment on UK articles Addy, your presidency must not be very busy."
Well, I've taken care of things. Conquered Poland, wiped UK, wiped UK, wiped UK, my desk is pretty clear. I also like to keep close tabs on my colonies so I frequent their papers to make sure that there is no restlessness amongst the subjects, shackles can be uncomfortable at first but you'll get used to them.
That's not very nice Addy.
I shan't be offering you any shortbread at our tea party!
ITT: Addy can't read, proceeds to cry about it
Temujin94 once made President? WHAT THE...?!!!
>mind = blown
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TemujinBC4President
@ Hans von Hahenstaufen
May I have some tea sir?