[CP] About The Air Strike And Future Plans

Day 3,590, 09:11 Published in Switzerland Switzerland by Swiss Federal Chancellery


Liebe Schweizer,

The Federal Council initiated an air strike yesterday on Cyprus. The idea to air strike came up while discussing the subject of waking up eRepublik communities. We did lose the battle but we also gained a lot. Let me recap the whole situation now before you burn me on a stake.

First of all, I would like to thank Murdersas, for being in contact with our friends all over the world. I would like to thank Swiss players who made hell on the battlefield. I would like to thank Slovenia, Macedonia, Norway and Ukrainian players for helping us during the campaign. They are the ones who made some battles in the attack epic. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

The purpose of the war, like said above, was to wake us up from the boredom we've experienced for years being locked in our three regions. When I proposed the law to air strike Cyprus, they immediately responded with sabotaging our resistance war in Svizzera italiana. I really apologize to everyone who supported the battle since we didn't predict the war would start this early. Our French friends did everything to burn down Cypriot tanks but we really couldn't make a difference because of high damage and combat orders hitting on the wrong side. We will do everything to get our last region before Assembly elections.

In the next 24 hours, Cypriot players published articles to troll the hell out of us. We all really laughed on jokes and both communities really had fun before the air strike was even launched. When the battle started, we have called our allies to arms. Colonel Bruce sent his whole squad of tanks and made hell on the battlefield for us. We've got so much support from our friends from Macedonia as well, specifically in the second and third division which were epic battles at some point, bringing hundreds of players on the battlefield. At the end, we lost and Cyprus won. It is a war game and someone has to lose.

After the battle seemed lost for us, I got in contact with the president and foreign affairs minister of Cyprus. I explained to them that the Federal Council of Switzerland initiated the air strike, since the Cypriot community was convinced someone else had a bigger role in initiating the attack. I explained to them why we chose them as a target. I am really happy to have received an answer about waking up the Cypriot community as well as ours. If I made contact with them before, we would have had a training war. Training wars are heresy. We both needed some real war to let hell loose on the battlefield. And it did happen.

We crashed in Nicosia. But, we gained a lot after the defeat. We finally got some attention in the international community. We have a stronger relationship with Slovenia, Macedonia and Norway now. We are in negotiations with Bulgaria about adding them to the list of our allies. All these countries were our close friends in the past and I think the Foreign Affairs Councillor did an awesome job bringing us back together after a long time.

What are our future plans?

First of, we need to make sure to have a decent Federal Assembly elections on the 25th of September. I urge all party presidents to call their party comrades to candidate and to modify the list to not have two-clickers being members after elections.

When we elect a new Federal Assembly session, we will continue with our program of increasing the population of Switzerland. Our beloved citizen Rican has initiated a baby boom committee in order to boost the whole program and to give it a special meaning.

I would like to congratulate everyone on doing great on the leaderboards of the League of Crap event. Federal Defence Councillor, Ortiz, conducted a reward give away to citizens who accomplished results in the event. We will have a discussion on having some more of those give aways if we see it is needed.

We will now stabilize our foreign affairs by dropping some of our mutual protection pacts first. We have money to cover 4-5 of them and I would really like to see our allies, who were with us above Cyprus, on the our allies list. We have initiated a communication channel with Bulgaria as well and we will probably get strong diplomatic relations like we had in the past.

I would like to thank Rican for the support he gave me since I was kind of stressed out during the battling and losing. Thank you for understanding the reasons this war was started. And, thank you Cyprus for understanding it too.

This is all for today. If I missed something, I'll include that in the next update.

All the best.