The Ideals of an eCountry
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Booleus
Good afternoon (or whatever time of day it may be where you are),
Currently I am writing this from eSweden. Being here fighting along side our allies has given me time to reflect on how my country (eCanada) and other Erep countries approach things.
1. Canada: This is the country I know most about. We are a country who believe that we live by a certain set of principles (some people call this a fault). I don't want to debate the validity of our principles, but basically there seems to be a mindset that every country deserves their original territories without being "blackmailed" into getting them back. So much so that any "offers" (rea😛
blackmail) that we received from France or Iran were turned away, even though we had no idea how easy it would be to get our territories back from them (this is in a large part thanks to our allies, and our coordination within eCan as well)
2. Austrailia: I would really like someone to comment here. This appears to be the opposite situation. Austrailians have had a large portion of their nation occupied by Indonesia for what seems like forever. Doesn't it anger you guys to just let them sit there and have your resources, simply because they threaten you? You do realize that players who sign up in that region, then see that all the news is in Indonesian likely will just quit?
3. Irelan😛
Are you going to go down in history as one of the only countries in history that only fights TWs? It seems to me that if you were to pick a side, it would probably be PEACE, so I'm perfectly happy with you staying neutral, but isn't it just DAMNED BORING?
4. Indonesia: You guys seem to be weakening a bit. Perhaps your leadership is young IRL, but you have a flawed plan for the future. I am going to assume that it is ignorance that makes you fail to see that occupying Russia is just going to make them take Hungary's side when the S*** hits the fan. I did see that in the middle of the night in your RW (that PEACE officially didn't support), there were alot of Hungarians fighting..... Foreshadowing?
5. UK and France: You have been publicly insulted by your "alliance", and take it... No pride?
5. PEACE in general: I am amazed at how an alliance survives when you say to countries "Join us, we will be like brothers, but I'm gonna charge you a bunch to get your original territories back". Maybe this is coming from one of them "principled" Canadians, but I don't want anything to do with any alliance that doesnt have the goal of giving me back my territories out of brotherhood.... Any alliance that offers no support to my RWs (see UK and France) and then calls me weak. I know there are flawed alliances, were in the past and always will be, but its quite obvious there are only 2 members that aren't there out of fear.
Please feel free to comment. This is just my rant for the day....
Comments
eAus anti-getting-curbstomped guy here.
My main points are here:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/operationtwofold-bawww-955385/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/oper[..]1/20
It isn't rated very high, because unlike the other flag-waving, anger-spraying pro-war ones, EDEN weren't voting it up like a miniskirt. Essentially, we have agreed on a peaceful bilateral means to get back WA, we barely have the people to settle it properly when we do, and it isn't worth the eternal wrath of our only neighbours imo. However, there is a lot of strong sentiment the other way as well, with people noting that its just a game, and wanting to fight. Atm, i think it'd be fun, but we'd get wrecked.
"Austrailia: Austrailians have had a large portion of their nation occupied by Indonesia for what seems like forever."
From what I monitored in the eAustralian press, they dearly want Western Australia back, but they fear getting crushed (again) by eIndonesia if they try to take it back.
It appears their strategy is neutrality and appeasement in the face of a massive enemy. The alternatives are to try to negotiate the repurchase of their territory (and eIndonsia doesn't seem interested at this time) or develop alliances and fight for it.
Any way you look at it, they're in a tough spot.
Speaking of eAustralia, the following article is a pretty succinct summary of the issues:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-question-is-eaustralia-truly-independent--965768/1/all" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-[..]1/all
> we have agreed on a peaceful bilateral means to get back WA,
Not worth the ePaper it's written on, eIndo will do nearly anything to keep WA.
> It appears their strategy is neutrality and appeasement in the face of a massive enemy.
Correct, we need to focus on survival first, hope for our States later.
Well, if you think that article, calvin, sums things up for you, then I would urge people to read mine. http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/the-ginger-beard-gazette-201880/1" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/th[..]880/1