MoD Article. Day 1750
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by Anthony Colby
Hello Ireland. The war is not going in our favor. We have put up one hell of a fight but it does not look like it will be enough.
As to how we got into this position that is not what this article is about. As a member of Congress and a Cabinet Minister I was there for some of the discussions. I know how this war got started.
I am here to talk about the people who have allowed us to put up as good of a fight as we have. The members of the Ministry of Defense have done one hell of a job keeping us supplied and getting as much help as they could. Malbekh, stpucca, BiednyMis, Meow2 are the other members of the Ministry of Defense. They all deserve thanks for the work they have done. Other people who deserve your thanks are sawc, Winston Hope Smith and Bhane. Their contributions on and off the field of battle during this war were well appreciated by those who know what they did, but everyone should know they deserve our thanks. The other group that deserves our thanks is every soldier who fought to defend Ireland, Irish citizen or not. As MoD I thank you.
Now if you need someone to blame for our performance that person would be ME. I am the man with the title after his name. I would take the credit if things went well so I should take the blame when they don't. Be it my lack of IRC use which limits my communication to not doing enough to help get more supplies to our soldiers, I could have done more. I take full responsibility for the performance of our army. No one has thrown me under the bus, I have fallen on my sword. I am taking blame because I feel I deserve it. I could have done more for all of you and for Ireland.
As I said our Ministry did a great job against a foe as powerful as Poland. They don't deserve any blame. Even the Administration did as good of a job as possible with the circumstances that were forced upon them. What we need now is to be unified. Put our differences aside and work together in the last few days of this administration and the one that will follow. Our next President will have quite a job ahead of them. Give them your support. No matter who wins.
Please vote this article, shout it out. As many Irish Citizens as possible should read this.
Thank you.
Anthony Colby
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Nah, don't take all of the blame on yourself, it was bad timing mainly that lead to this current situation. o7
You should use IRC more, its free. It shouldn't slow you down any, Icechat is running only 9,272 kb of my system resources. That is my suggestion for anyone leading a Ministry or Military aspect of the game.
I blame the person who appointed you.
AC you are one of those rare people that you can never get mad at. Class act.
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The job involves alot of IRC use, for communicating with allies and decisive action so you should have never been appointed, it didn't play to your strengths. Although didn't stop you from releasing ingame articles, no one on IRC has a clue what this government wanted done either so wouldn't beat yourself up about it.
I wouldn't blame you for us losing a war against Poland, that was always going to happen no matter how many weapons you did or did not supply. Ireland can only beat Poland when they are already on the back foot, not when they are in the middle of expanding even more with pacts in place for their already conquered territories.
I would though, have expected you as the MoD to take a more leading role when it came to advising congress on whether we should pass a law that would see us at war with a superpower. Part of the job of MoD is weighing up what our chances of success are in any military move, and this one had zero chance. No room for sitting on the the fence and saying you'll support whatever people want when it comes to advising congress on our Defence. We would not be wiped if Govt had advised against this.
You couldn't done more. This entire war is strange. Out of nowhere you decide to attack Poland without securing help of your alliance or being supported by some major forces.
Its like saying - ok just wipe us we are bored.
Btw Poland orders were set for Ireland once as far as I remember rest is done by "crowd".
Nothing could have been done to change this war once it started. o7 for the work done
Like I said I could have done more. I agree with Ibhoy. Winning was a LONG shot.
I just don't want anyone blaming those who did their jobs and those who fought above their weight class.
Also if taking the blame can bring us a little unity and make Ireland one little bit stronger I will gladly do it.
For Ireland.
o7
"Also if taking the blame can bring us a little unity and make Ireland one little bit stronger I will gladly do it.
For Ireland.
o7"
Respect for this 🙂 Voted!
Do not blame yourself. Even writing this article shows how innocent you are. You weren't around and no offence but you shouldn't have been given the job if you weren't going to put the hours in. But don't get me wrong you have contributed well to Ireland this month.
The Government as a whole failed us. They took the war and showed it off with our loyalty and determination to free our allies when infact it was something far from it.
Poland have said "Ireland needs to learn its lesson"
And surely we will. I am against the current government and haven't had best relations with the MoD Supply Team who have treated me unfairly and even a certain member refused to supply me over personal reasons. The government also promised a lot of things but haven't produced it. They need to get the whole act together.
With this whole new "regime" going for a third month in power out of the past 4 months I hope BeanandTeddy (if elected) cleans up the mess and actually doesn't fail as much as
their previous administrations
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I'd like to say that I had nothing to do with the enormous efforts that the MoD team put through over the last few days and thus deserve no praise or condemnation whatsoever. I will however go back to the salient point I was making some time ago,
We are not prepared for war
We are not organised for war
We are not trained for war
The only way we are going to be successful as a very small nation is either an integrated military unit divided in divisions/regiments....
....something I think we all know is not going to happen. Or a unified military hierarchy at MU level where the commanders and the MoD can coordinate a campaign where we use 100% of our faculties. We did make Poland bleed a little, particularly in NFL, but this was down to the efforts of two or three individuals plus a couple of committed MU's
I would still like to know why Congress NE'd Poland twice and what political machinations were going on in the background.
@Mal
Padraig proposed NE twice. He's the guy who claimed I was killed in a rl car accident a couple weeks ago. Govt then treated this as a serious proposal, told us "EDEN were excited" about it and we had support. CP and Government would not commit though on either the Yes or No side, so I decided to hold my own vote until they gave some clear indication on whether we were ready for this or not. The indication did not come at all, so I did not vote at all.
By the time I logged in again we were attacking Poland in Polish prime time.
CPs and Govts should have strong opinions, should stick to them and live or die by them. Strong leaders put themselves in the firing line for their beliefs and are not afraid of being accountable both when things go well and when the shit hits the fan. This Govt was weak and more or less said "lolye guys go ahead and NE them, but we're only taking responsibility for this if by some miracle we win a battle!!111!!"
Hmm. There's an ominous ring of truth about this, but as it will lead to bitching and flaming - the one thing we're world leaders in - I'll take a pass. What I will say is that *certain people* didn't put in a decent shift, and I'm not talking about the MU's here who in fairness put in the effort from what I can see, the interesting thing is how that damage breaks down still further.
I agree with the black and white nature of governance though, but I'd like to think we can learn and move on
I agree with you on the bitching and flaming part, I'd rather this doesn't turn into that. I just hope that our new CP will take the lead now, have the courage of his own convictions and whether he succeeds or fails at least LEAD, instead of passing the buck to congress on matters.
Congress doesn't work. CPs and Ministers should lead. Simple as that.
Voted.
What's wrong with bitching and flaming?