US - PT Diplomacy, what went wrong?

Day 480, 12:41 • Published in USA Portugal • by Arthk

Original article here

Hello,

I was always there on the Portuguese - USA negotiations, I always stood up for peace and healthy war games as solution to our problems, but the negotiations with the US we're always stained with arrogance and despise towards the Portuguese people from the US side (with some exceptions).

The first time I tried conversations with US representatives it was some days after the US war declaration against France, where the war USA - Portugal also popped up due to our MPP's with France.

At that time, the President Benn Dover was available to close this war between US and my beloved Nation, but he asked the opinion of the US Congress. The official answer I had was something like "we won't close the war because we might want to invade you in the future and we don't want to waste GOLD" which wasn't that diplomatic at all (notice that I was Portuguese President back then, so these conversations were official).

Some weeks later the US attacked Azores for the first time, ordered by President Justinious McSomething III (I apologize to Justinious, can't quite remember his last name 😒). I only talked to him after the attack on Azores failed (that so called "Operation for the lulz") and I explained, with a lot of patience, that its not that pleasant to have battles "for the lulz" when we were being also attacked by Spain that had intentions to completely annex Portugal. I also said that if the US wanted war games we would be available to get some contracts written to train both countries' soldiers and to stimulate the economy, just not when we were endangered by Spain. Justinious pretty much agreed on that.

And then Uncle Sam came to office. Uncle Sam, considering all the Presidents that I've ever talked to, he was the least diplomatic, more arrogant and has shown a bit of despise towards my country. Even Benn Dover agreed that he wasn't that diplomatic when dealing with us.

And this happened in the worse timing ever. Portugal had lost Algarve to Spain in the previous day and Uncle Sam said in the US irc channel that Portugal accepted war games with the US so they could attack whenever they wanted to. That wasn't true at all! He was taking advantage of what I had told Justinious regarding the planned war games, with Portuguese acknowledge and consent of each battle, but above all, never when there's an ongoing attack by the warmongering Spain. An attack at the same time of the Spanish attack would endanger our National security. I couldn't let that happen, so even before the US attack on Azores I went to talk to Uncle Sam to clear things up, telling him that Portugal was available for war games but NEVER when Spain was also attacking, and those war games would have to be perfectly planned and organized between both countries.

The answer I had from him was "The economy can't wait, I've promised this in my election program, I got to attack". Meaning that he completely ignored our availability for war games and our national security. I replied this back to him "Any attack on Portuguese soil without the Portuguese administration's consent will be seen as a direct offensive towards our national security" and made him think before pushing the button, making him wonder if he really wanted to create an eight MPPed enemy, and ruin any chance of peace between both countries.

He chose to attack and made the "Operation Thunder" or whatever it was called right when Spain was attacking Alentejo. We managed to secure both battles and in the next day we were reconquering the Algarve region that was taken by the Spanish. Happily we succeeded. But Uncle Sam had failed our trust and really created a dangerous enemy. Portuguese citizens weren't happy at all.

What's happening now I can surely say it was due to Uncle Sam's bad diplomacy, if he really wanted war games for his population he would've been more diplomatic with Portugal and we would gladly accept that. He has chosen to provoke us, to despise us with that "I'm stronger than you" arrogance.

Uncle Sam is an arrogant President, with weak diplomatic capacities, full of propaganda that (in my humble opinion) worries more about his own image rather than his own country's health.

He had the option to do healthy war games with Portugal, without spending much GOLD, and with absolutely no diplomacy problems (on the contrary really, it would create friendly relations between Portugal and the US). He chose to disrespect Portugal and spend a LOT of GOLD attacking Mexico and trying to fully invade that country.

I would say he chose the wrong option.

Are you still surprised Portugal turned down the peace proposal right after US declared war on Mexico?

Best Regards,

-Arthk
Portuguese Vice President
PEACE Vice Secretary General
former Portuguese President and PEACE Secretary General