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in before critics: the Christmas Truce pic is indeed out of context : P

Pic is not historically accurate...car in background 🙁

So ward screws up the TW, launches a peace proposal without discussing it with the Dutch and everything is ok?


poor communication skills, mr president... poor communication skills

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Ahaha, well seen Kylero😁

Voted!

Ward is a terrible president. He messes up and he is not taking responsibility for this errors.

Now I have no idea in details what's going on, but you are not even a Belgian citizen Konrad, so you have no room to say anything about our CP.

If you didn't have a discussion with the Dutch, or anyone in your cabinet, that is very poor of you. Your decisions should be for the better good of our country, which means everything you do should be properly planned. Either everyone is criticizing your every move because they don't like you or it's because you are doing a horrible job. I would start listening to what everyone is saying and turn your presidency around fast, quick, and in a hurry.

As far as the training war is concerned, I do feel it was a poor decision. After talking with a few people I did realize it wasn't your sole decision to end it. A few of the reasons why it was to end made no sense to me. I'm not a congressman or a CP, so what would I know right?

Ward very bad this. You didnt even inform congress and you all said i was bad

I don't think it is about you jamster737...

Ward have got more insights on the current situation than any of us, and he made the call he thought was the best for our country. While we try to reform the BAF and start our military from new grounds, it wasn't maybe the best idea to continue a TW. According the same people who are not happy here, our dutch friends are not trustable and a TW is an open invitation to let them invade us. With important problems in the Belgian Army, our CP prefered to close the TW, the same TW that none of you wanted, and even ask to be close because it made us lost a lot of money only for a silly 0.5str bonus. I get the point that each Ward's decision is bad, but he should desserve more credits.

lol ThomasRed,

That has to be the weakest reply. The CP knows best and yet you attacked all the CPs that you did not like. Where was CP knows best for eBE then?

Also Ward ran on a platform of TW. He promised this to the eBE people with the manifesto. The last administration started the TW and when Ward came to power, he on his own end it to the surprise to the Dutch and the Belgian congress. Ward on countless times when you look at the immigration debates etc, he clearly lacks the basic understanding of the Presidency. He thinks the President is boss and he controls congress and all aspect of eBE social and political life. You can see is authoritarian tendencies with such decrees.

Ramsess, Konrad was a eBelgian citizen till about a month ago. He's been minister and advisor and is a well respected erepublik player who's known all over eWorld. I think it's fair to say he knows his shit a million times more than Ward

It's not about what you were, it's about what you are.

President Butthole made a good article *slow clap*

From my comment on MaryamQ's article:

"I hope it is now clear why the war needed to close quickly from our perspective: the first reaction of the Dutch CP when I informed him of ths article http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-baf-a-farewell-to-arms-1900378/1/20 four days ago was (in Dutch): "that means the BAF doesn't exist anymore". Our (the government's) first reaction was to try to close quickly without too much showing our sudden weakness. Since the training war agreement was already not renewed by Congress at that time (after the 7 days foreseen in the treaty), you can understand that there was no impetus whatsoever from the government's side to renew the TW agreement. Legislative efforts were focused on increasing the BTA subsidy, which was successfully concluded in Congress with the State Budget Law. Luckily the full realisation of the disarray of the BAF did not pierce through fully then, or we could have tempted some unruly Dutch to go all out in the war.
With ThomasRed gone, the supply situation of the BAF (our main MU) is seriously impacted or even inexistent. Now we can focus on solving that without having to manage a war at the same time. I hope this overview makes sense."

From my replies on the forum:

"Congress approved a TW by vote here: http://www.erepbelgium.com/t4647-tw-with-the-dutch-accepted - waging war is one of the relatively clear executive (CP) powers, when properly mandated.

According to the TW treaty, the agreement (between CP's) ended by default on November 6th 23:15.

November 8th, it is realised http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-baf-a-farewell-to-arms-1900378/1/20 that the BAF has no recurring supplies anymore. In order to not raise undue emotions in the public and so as to maintain national sovereignty, discreet talks with Congress and the Dutch government representatives are held. (...)"

"(...) On November 8th, Xironn starts http://www.erepbelgium.com/t4727-end-of-the-tw-war-with-enl

November 9th, after regular debate on the forum, the in-game No NE proposal was accepted by Congress on November 10th - http://www.erepublik.com/en/Belgium/law/87942 - 19 Yes against 8 No.

November 11th, in the fastest possible scenario, the country is at peace, also thanks to loyal soldiers. We can now dedicate work on thorough army reforms."

Questions?

The TW treaty: http://bit.ly/NLtwBE

Also check the informational government in-game articles and updates on the forum please. This training war is now fully ended. We can focus on the situation of the BAF. Every eBelgian citizen is invited on the forum for in-depth discussion and proposals, as always.

When possible and desired, a new training war will be negotiated.