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Well the MoFA of Sweden and Norway tried to build up a new relationship between our nations. To bad the Norwegian President thought otherwise.
I really don't know why our countries shall be enemies, we are so close in culture and language that i can't describe our relationship not to be anything but a brotherhood.

This is nice to hear. Too bad our nations couldn't continue on the path we had.
Respect to you Per.

You have my respect, Per. o/

My personal opinion is that a nordic alliance is an impossibility, not because of the contradiction between the Scandinavian countries, but because the problems which lies in the different countries alliances. Something, however, I see as a possibility is an economic alliance and a joint NAP between all countries. It was something that I talked about a lot during 2011, leaving aside the last few months when we supported a PTO in Norway.

An economic alliance is easily created, and also something that I think EDEN, TERRA and ONE would accept, the larger alliance in the interests of northern Europe is very small.

Nice to see some of the light being shed on the effort that was made by a much larger number of players than what now seems to be sufficient to put another wedge between our two countries. Let me be frank here for a brief moment, I feel that I owe both Mr. Jostein and Sweden's previous MoFA the courtesy of telling you what really goes on in the inner sanctum of alliance politics.

As a previous member of several HQ's (never by my own request, I might add) I have been right there at the centre of things. I have seen pleads for help being ignored, I have seen serious issues being cast aside because of personal issues between individual leaders and I have heard all kinds of degrading words being uttered about, well, pretty much everyone. I have read logs of my own countrymen (no name-dropping, you shall have to figure it out yourselves) cherishing PTO efforts and I've even had the awkward pleasure of conversing with two high ranked leaders in separate queries where they managed to bad mouth each other unknowingly, simultaneously.

Let us therefore debunk the myth of alliances being some kind of breeding ground for competent leaders and righteous warfare: alliances are, in fact, bullocks. All of them. This holds true in all browser games I've played since '97. Alliances enable several weak links to form a stable enough chain to be able to strangle the efforts of individualism and partisan ways before the chain eventually breaks and the weak links are remoulded to form another chain, fit to strangle another "enemy".

"You're either with us, or you're against us"

Eh. Or, perhaps, neither. Perhaps we simply don't wish to be part of your silly campaigns at all. Ever thought about that?

Alliances survive through the same principle as bullies. They outnumber their foes so that they may ridicule them. By any and every means necessary. Although Per and Jegarmister had noble intentions, such efforts rarely survive the onslaught of plots and schemes cooked up by alliance HQs.

There is only one type of alliance that can survive the twists and turns by the arrogant and greedy countries that usually runs the show in high alliance politics (such as, for example, electing the HQs). It is the alliance between two (or a selected few) countries that share a strong sense of kinship between their communities, regardless of which side they've been on in the past or which side they're currently on. USA and Canada show such potential. Croatia and Bosnia to name another pair. Or, why not, Norway and Sweden.

We had all the ingredients to make a very nice cake up here in the North, but we lacked the power and authority to see things through. And this time it wasn't so much curiousity as naivity that killed the cat.

I've seen spin doctors to their work in the secluded area backstage. I've seen countries who fought as friends one week turn into bitter enemies the next. The main problem in this game - for all countries and their respective communities - is their way of enabling a selected few elitist players to continue to run the show. Heck, I should know, I have been elected President 8 times myself.

To never renew yourself is just a more refined way of comminiting suicide.

The eWorld is boring simply because there's nothing new in it. Some thought that ONE was a refreshing change last year, but we're already tired of it by now. They came, they saw, they conquered. End of story and end of all the fun. EDEN stopped being fun years ago. Terra? The third wheel, consisting of countries that were either too individualistic to join the "two side war" from the beginning or, as in Russia's case, were the leftovers that didn't make it in EDEN or ONE. Small wonder they behave like the derailed little brother with a giant chip on his shoulder.

I used to applaud the efforts that efforts that were put into making PANAM (later Terra) reality. But now, sadly, they've become just the same as last time, save a few countries that used to be PHX.

So, I leave you with two walls of texts and you're probably none the wiser. But to say that the cause was foolish to begin with is to see no further than the tip of your own nose, or a bit more eloquently put: the end of your own arse.

I shall never think it foolish to try and break out of imprisonment and stand up for what you think is right and fun. If a majority of the Swedes and a majority of the Norwegians want for their two countries to be friends, then why, pray tell, should they not try to make it so? How could that possibly be wrong?

Naive, perhaps. Obviously. But never wrong. They just dared to do and say what more convenient (and in the end more successful) players choose not to. While some see it as moral high ground to push a red button a few hundred times a day and demand as many supplies as possible in return for their "effort" it takes courage and heart to dedicate yourself to diplomacy and to build bridges instead of burning them.

Burning something up is easy and sure, it can be fun. While it burns. But picking up the ashes is something you usually leave for someone else to do, now is it not? Building something up can be heartbreaking and demoralizing at times. Sometimes you just want those stupid bricks to be blow to smithereens! But, if you commit yourself to your work and if you're stubborn enough, you will be able to look back at the finished piece afterwards and say "I was one of those who built that". Speaking from personal experience, blowing things up is a short term drug for stifling the desire to build something lasting.

Or, as in most of the eRepublikan cases, simply a child's way of quoting Nelson: HA-HA!

While some see it as moral high ground to push a red button a few hundred times a day and demand as many supplies as possible in return for their "effort" it takes courage and heart to dedicate yourself to diplomacy and to build bridges instead of burning them.
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+1 for Valnad and Per 🙂