Confessions of an Irishman

Day 3,347, 17:29 • Published in Ireland South Africa • by Dante Boss

Irishmen, Irishwomen and Allies,

As many of you are now already aware, we have woken this morning to the news that another war is set to land on the shores of our Emerald Isle.

Closing in on 4 weeks since our invasion of our once friend, United Kingdom, they have finally begun their rebellion with the assistance of India and Lithuania.

We can assure you all that the Government is working vigorously this morning and will continue to do so for the next few days to maintain eIrish sovereignty over our island as well as our two colonies across the water in Wales & West Midlands, United Kingdom.


[Early Days]

Over the past few months, the eIrish nation has been caught in the crossfire of the shifting global allegiances. We did not play any part in the bidding war but held back as the superpowers of the eWorld swung punches and plummeted knives into the backs of other nations. Our little humble nation lay dormant wanting the fight to end, we had our allies and we wanted to do what we have always done - be loyal and stand by our friends.

One such friendship was that the one we shareded with twins - Macedonia and Bulgaria. We did everything for our comrades including the donation of regions to enable them congress, all of which we offered for free as that is what true friends do. We stand by one another through our times of need.

The worlds allegiances cracked and our allies of old were cast to the left while our brothers forged bonds to the right. eIreland was stuck in the middle. The world we once knew unravelled and we followed the majority and took a direction of Adriatica. However once there, we did not forget our roots and did not take part in orders which contained the instructions to fight against our historical allies. These orders repeated themselves constantly and this could never sink in. So we left in search of the awful place that is neutrality where we were left stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Neutrality in the war between Adriatica/Syndicate and Asteria to us meant Pacifica. Our advance to this alliance was unsuccessful and our future looked bleaker than I ever thought it would. We approached our brothers of Macedonia and Bulgaria. It wasn't long before we were told we weren't trusted, that we were traitors and the likes but we were still expected to fall in line and be their loyal ally. That hurt, honestly, we knew we hadn't treated them great but we weren't at any negotiating table and had been caught in a crossfire. We continued to maintain this relationship, we did national strikes for our brothers, after one for Macedonia, a high ranking Bulgarian official commented how they were shocked to see us doing this. When we did strikes for our ally Croatia, we had Bulgarians and Macedonians informing of their disapproval of such actions.

What is a country to do?


[Allegiances]

It was then mentioned to us about aligning closer to Orion consisting of nations such as Canada and Lithuania who had been at war with us within the past year as well as France who had rejected the idea of an MPP with us within the previous months. In our eyes this was not a welcoming place. We did not want to join nations who we had been at war with. Other allies of Orion included Moldova, China and Slovenia, again countries who had attacked and wiped our nation off the map. Why would our nation become friends with countries who had wiped us?

This alongside the growing divide between our country and Bulgaria in particular was making me personally feel like the independent neutrality avenue was even wrong. We were being told who to make as friends and being told who to not fight for. There was no respect in Ireland's attempts at being loyal to her allies, not anybody elses.

[Revival]

The game was becoming depressing, we had nowhere to fight with meaning and interest in what has become a constantly eroding platform was reaching minimal levels. Along came the USA.

Our greatest times in history were wars with the UK and what makes this game more interesting than fighting our RL divides. Many people have slandered us for using real life as a propaganda tool yet the worlds sphere of influences are centred around real life conflicting nations. Personally I joined this game and stayed as when I first signed in, eIreland was fighting for Northern Ireland.

As a real life Nationalist there was a beauty to this and that's what I wanted to feel again in a game where other nations real life conflicts have dominated my countries will to fight for the past year.

[Quick Briefing]

Our fight with the United Kingdom has been nothing personal, many of the friends I have made from this game are from there and I have nothing but respect for them. The eWorld is a different place than last year and in eIreland we had to face that the hard way. Yes we weren't happy with losing another ally to the hands of Asteria but there is more story to everything.

Yes we weren't by Bulgaria's side throughout but when their government members fund the crashing of our training war in spite, mock us over our alliance choice and yet don't include us in talks for their own alliance (Nexus I think it was meant to be called) you are left in a conundrum. When they signed with Slovenia without asking our opinions months before any Adriatica/Syndicate drama you wonder where does your opinion sit while we were always subjected to theirs.

While yes Don Croata is Croatian in real life and he has very much been instrumental in our relations with Croatia, he is anything but a PTO'er. The man has stood under an eIrish flag for so long I can't even tell you how long he has been a brother and a comrade. Accusations of him being a PTO'er over his real life nationality pisses me off to great extents. eIreland has an open border, anyone from anywhere is welcome as this is a community in an online game. Those who have mud to throw over this need to grow up cause as mentioned earlier - we are told don't bring real into this game, yet somebodies real life nationality isn't doing just that?

eIreland isn't throwing any toys out of a pram.
We are taking this war as it is.
A war.

We attacked with two countries as that's what we felt would help us win.
You are doing the same.
We aren't complaining.

It's the number one rule about war.

Win it.