To the South of Mexico
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by Pechorin
Geography is becoming a very interesting subjects these days. Everybody is busy removing the dust from the globe to find where the Indonesia-Rumania war is going to take place or to understand what plans Asian countries have to control each other. It is a good time to have a good knowledge of Geography but is a better time to know about Diplomacy.
- What kind of Diplomacy?
Many people claim that we should be an imperialistic nation (even there is a party that suggest that directly) but some people forget, maybe intentionally, that there is always a carrot where you find the stick.
Be imperialistic just to be imperialistic is a very easy goal but I think that it would be very irresponsible to take this way. In eR all the countries have this internal figth between who prefer to conquer new territories and who wants to focus in improve relationships with the rest of the world. Both "factions" have their chances to apply their ideas and probably the "healthiest" solution is a balanced solution.
That means that we cannot be conquering Mexico without paying attention about what is the opinion of other nation´s government or their public opinion. It is very easy to say: "Why should we care about them?" and tried to avoid the effort and responsability we should make to improve our public relations and spread our ideas around the world.
We must understand them, we should listen to them. There is a whole continent, Latin America, that claims against our foreign policy and listen to PEACE propaganda.
Should we let them to explain who the american people are? Should we let them to explain what is our foreign policy? I don´t think so, I think that is an american job to tell the world who we are and what we want.
Salud
Spanish resume:
En la actual situación mundial, con el avance del imperialismo incluso entre muchos de nuestros conciudadanos, USA debe buscar el equilibrio en su política exterior, especialmente tras los primeros combates en Mexico. Es hora de aplicar la diplomacia y arrebatar a PEACE el monopolio de la propaganda, sobretodo en América Latina. Debemos escuchar lo que tengan que decirnos y hablar con ellos para entenderlos mejor.
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I agree whole heartily, we need to be responsible for our actions.
Realize that manyt people respond better to fear than nice soft fluffy words. Much of central and south america are atleast more PEACE friendly than ATLANTIS. So this actually sends them a good message that if they decide to openly stand against that we are willing to attack them. Now I dont think we need to over run all of Mexico to get this point across, but do realize that military actions like this can give you leverage when you go to dakr room to play diplomate.
In real life people dont invade and conquer contries anymore because there are better ways to control people, such with covert ops or economical sanctions and the like. Unfortunatly the game doesnt currently have all the feature that would allow us to actually pursue all of the RL options. There are really only a few things we can do. We can boycott them which has little to no effect since we dont really import much if anything from them. We could just sit back and talk like your suggesting which hasnt lead to improved image, or we can do what we have now done and give them action and reactions to consider when we talk to them. Why do you think people in the middle east recieve our diplomates. Most of them hate us but they know if they dont the consequences are going to be far worse than them just talking to us. Diplomacy alone has and never will be enough. As they say talk is cheap. "unfortuantly war is expensive 🙁"
"Diplomacy alone has and never will be enough" who says something different? The point is: we should be able to find a balance, don't deny a good opportunity to figth but don't forget that we are not alone in the eWorld.
Diplomacy is not just find the best and cheapest way to oblay someone to do what we want. Diplomacy is listening and talkind, understanding that we are part of a community where we should find the best way to live together.
In middle east they talk with american diplomats not just because they are scared of consequences but because they are interested in listening what they have to say and explain to them what the expect from USA.
I am sorry but World, or eWorld, is not that simplistic. It is not just black and white.