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Before reading I want you to know that everything in this article is an opinion of myself. I want to outline the fact that I'm nothing significant to do with foreign affairs, and I don't claim to have any advanced knowledge about it, but I have an opinion. This is just my two-pence on the situation at hand. Please bear that in mind when reading this article, other than this, please enjoy.
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"After every hurricane, comes a rainbow"
~Winston Churchill, 1941
On day seven (7), thirteen (13) of the thirty-three (33) countries in e-sim entered into an economic & military global alliance, latterly named All 4 One (A41) by it's founders, one of those being the United Kingdom. A41 was the first military alliance ever formed in e-sim, it was the start of history for this game, and was a proud moment for all citizens of e-sim.
However, some people have said: "A41 was made too big, too fast" "A41 is a puppet for Bulgaria" "A41 is a copy of EDEN". My opinion? Yes, it was too fast, too big, and seemingly pointless, but that didn't mean it wasn't going to work. In my opinion, the UK had a bright future with early allies and bro's like Sweden, Italy, USA and more. But, I trusted my country's leaders and their instinct to take us into the alliance.
After all, I was going to fight, physically and verbally, for my country and it's allies no matter what happened.
From my angle, the UK had it's future set in stone, we would have carried on fighting for Italy against Slovenia, along-side our future-bros Sweden & USA and a couple of other countries close to the UK's heart. As well as this we'd have a strong political future, I don't want to blow my country's trumpet but in my opinion we had some of e-sim's top politicians and persuasive people. I'm thinking of Smack, Ranflax, Castorious, kcirp and others; all of whom gave more than their fair share of effort towards giving the UK a bright future, and they were and still are more than capable enough to do it.
Despite this, I've always felt as if these people (With the UK's backing of course) took us into an alliance without deep consideration. As a country we were putting 500k+ damage p/day into other countries, but were we getting it in return? We grew apart from potential allies like Poland and Germany, before even having the chance, all for the sake of A41. We had security at home, ofcourse, our real allies gave us their word that they would come to our aid if ever it was needed. And of course, this was proven in the rouge RW in Canada a while ago, which we're very grateful for.
However, if A41 were to disperse and everything was to revert itself, would our allies just think we were useless, and drop us like a stone? Possibly.
So the alliance has given us good and bad things. For the good, we have security and a lot of battles to fight in everyday. On the bad side, we have a lack of real friendship with a lot of our allies in A41, as well as a mixed attitude towards the alliance within the population of the UK.
As you can see, the UK has a lot of options, and every UK citizen, and especially the leaders of our country, should have a think about what they really want from an alliance, security and firepower, or commitment and effort? There may come a time when the UK gets dropped like a stone by most of it's allies, and if it does happen, I want to be the first to say "I told you so".
Over and Out.
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USA as a world power? In E-Sim it is possible!
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