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A lot has happened diplomatically over the past few days, and I would like to give the UK's side of the argument.
The UK is now going to assume a neutral stance on the world stage, whilst allying with certain countries with whom we have close relations. We will also seek to maintain ties with ALPHA nations on an individual, one to one basis.
Whatever ALPHA might say, we were never officially a part of ALPHA, but we were MPPed to a few members, and did not fight against them.
However over the course of the past few days, they have essentially pushed us away from them.
The battle in Smaland Scania
I will take you back to the events of 7 days ago:
4 members of a private UK MU hit against Lithuania in a round in the battle for Smaland Scania, a Swedish home region. It is well known that the military unit has close links with Sweden.
Very shortly after this happened,
iPSiArt launched an RW in Canada East Coast, a region which the UK had held since week 1 of the game. Not surprisingly, the UK fought to retain it (meaning less damage was available to give to ALPHA).
It should have ended there right? Call it quits, surely?
Nope.
A couple of hours after the UK retained control of CEC,
iPSiArt launched another RW, which again the UK defended.
Clearly one rule for them, and another for us. And yet they wondered why we sought to move closer to our friends.
Ireland/Portugal
The second major tipping point is in the situation with Ireland.
The President of the United Kingdom at the time
Jon873 declared war on Ireland 4 days ago. I wonder what we might possibly have been after.
A few days later, (1 day ago in fact), Portgual declared war on the Irish as well.
Realising that there was a strong likelihood of them reaching Shannon before we would, myself and
CBall (the current president of the UK) had a discussion with the Portugese president about Shannon. Specifically, what would happen if one of us got there first. Here is some of what was said:
(23:35:46)<CBall>ok so what is the portugese plan for Shannon?
(23:36:04)<danielsampaio>the same of UK I guess
(23:38:41)<CBall>ok, and what would portugal be planning to do if the UK reach shannon first?
(23:39:03)<danielsampaio>as I said yesterday to Solymir
(23:39:13)<danielsampaio>we first go talk with ALPHA and see
(23:39:16)<danielsampaio>if necessary attack
Or a translation:
Slightly later in the conversation.
(00:03:08)<danielsampaio>if you conquere shannon first than us and if we attack ALPHA will support
(00:03:17)<danielsampaio>if we go first and UK attack us ALPHA will do the same
The president of Portugal also said something yesterday (and the day before but I can't get into my logs) which I am sure
Nenne (the Norwegian president) will greatly appreciate reading.
(23:44:19)<danielsampaio>as I said yesterday
(23:44:23)<danielsampaio>norway
(23:44:27)<Solymir>are our friends
(23:44:41)<danielsampaio>make a contract
(23:44:44)<danielsampaio>or something like that
(23:45:28)<CBall>we shouldnt need to, we are now friends with norway and declared war on ireland first
(23:47:57)<Solymir>^
(23:48:13)<Solymir>why should you get shannon, and not us ?
(23:49:00)<danielsampaio>you had option to catch one high iron
(23:49:08)<Solymir>so might is right
(23:49:12)<Solymir>and f*** (edited to avoid swearing infringement) diplomacy ?
(23:49:30)<danielsampaio>no
(23:49:40)<danielsampaio>I just said you had option before sign MPP
i.e. Rather than forge a close relationship with Norway, we are supposed to just invade them. Screw the long term eh?
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