On Nordic Friendship!

Day 1,585, 08:35 • Published in Sweden Russia • by Styvfar
The past week has not been particularly kind to eSwedish and eNorwegian relations. The eRussian attack on eSweden, which was sanctioned by the eNorwegian president Endymionis, has stirred up hatred on both sides. The eSwedish sanctioned PTO of eNorway some months ago has been brought up frequently by eNorwegians rationalizing their present actions. I do however hope that, when this is over, we can bury the hatchet and instead embrace our commonalities.

Before continuing I would like to offer my take on what went down the fatal day of the first eSwedish NE-vote against eRussia.

I myself noticed the NE vote, initiated by the toll Grubb, some 15 minutes after its initiation when I was browsing the game on my phone. Unfortunately, I somehow got the impression that the first NE-vote was initiated by the eRussinans – so I casted a “yes”-vote to our proposal (our proposal was 6-1 in favor of NE at the time). It was not until about an hour later that I discovered my error. There was much discussion in the congress IRC-channel on how to salvage the whole situation, as the vote had been initiated by a renegade troll with the only intent to harm eSweden by blocking a possible eSwedish NE-vote against an impending eIrish threat. We had no wishes whatsoever to engage in hostilities with eRussia, and we hoped that by clearly vote no to the NE against eRussia, we would prove this to the eRussians. Thus we started to send PMs to our congress members urging them not to vote eRussia as NE. As the only member of the government present at the time I also sent the eRussian president the following message:

Mr President of eRussia

I wish to inform you that the NE vote on your country was initiated by a renegade troll (Grubb) who has sadly made it into our congress. We have no intention to wage war against you and we have started to send alert messages to our congress members encouraging them not to vote eRussia as NE. So, I wish to express eSwedens sincerest apologies for this unnecessary event, and I hope that we can resolve the situation peacefully.

Best Regards
Styvfar, Minister of Finance, Sweden, speaking on behalf of the eSwedish government

Unfortunately out efforts were in vain. We did manage to decisively stop our own NE-vote, but this was ignored by the eRussians who used the situation to launch an invasion. The eRussian president did not even bother to reply to our PM. It soon also became apparent that the eNorwegian president had given his blessing to this invasion. The eNorwegian president could have vetoed the invasion in accordance with an agreement between eNorway and eRussia… This is where we are today.

Despite this, not all eSwedish-eNorwegian relationships are this cold. The eNorwegian MoFA Per Jostein did publicly state that he was against the invasion and that he had had very fruitful and friendly communications with our then MoFA Jegarmister…

The thing is that if you ignore the great alliances for a moment, the Nordic countries – eNorway, eDenmark, eSweden and eFinland – have quite a lot in common. We (obviously) have geographical proximity, speak similar languages (well, apart from eFinland…) and have joint cultural heritages. On a fundamental level these are great foundations for cooperation and connection.

Thus, it is unfortunate that we have come to join different alliances, and that these alliances are so global that relatively small countries as us have become nothing but pawns on the checkerboard – at the mercy of the will of others. From an eSwedish perspective at least, both eNorway and eFinland are looking an awful lot like eRussian puppets, running eRussia’s errands at eRussia’s command. And from eNorways perspective I reckon that they view eSweden as bullies, backed by their newly found alliance ONE.

But if we ask ourselves seriously: Do countries like eSweden and eSerbia really have something in common, or have we just come to be allies because of past conveniences? Do Norway and Finland really befriend eRussia, or have they just bent to their power in fear of worse things?

I ultimately believe that despite our differences, the Nordic countries should work together to safeguard our joint interests. We do not necessary need to be allies, just develop a mutual respect for each other. The first obvious step would to form a joint Non-Aggression Pact to ensure that despite being in different alliances, we will not actively fight against one another, or actively allow enemies to attack Nordic original regions. Apart from this we would still be free to aid our alliances.

I believe it is time to bury the hatchet. eSweden supported PTO in eNorway, and eNorway actively allowed eRussia to invade eSweden. eFinland aided eRussia in wiping eSweden from the map, but did allow us to safely get a full congress. Are we even? I don’t know. I don’t care. We are all in the position to cause each other great harm, but doing so will only feed us new problems that, in the long run, will benefit nobody but ill-willing eRussians and eSerbs.


Styvfar
Congress member of eSweden;
Board member Nationalgardet