Grumpy OLD Men: 2nd Edition
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Sweet Drinker
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The world is filled with grumpy old men.
MU's are built upon them.
Large countries are run by them.
Alliances are commanded by grumpy old men.
Even the women are grumpy old men!
Seems being old is something to be ashamed of these days.
We’re inflexible.
Hung up on our RL beliefs.
Too nationalistic to accept change.
or so we're lead to believe…
So there’s this new plan.
Merge two nations into one.
It’ll be an unstoppable machine!
…
First off, this is not a new idea. PTO’d nations have agreed to absorption by a larger neighbor.
It’s been suggested that a large nation absorb several nations creating a ‘Super Nation.
It’s not too surprising to see this Canadian absorption of Ireland being suggested atm.
A grumpy old man might look around here atm and wonder if this plan wasn’t set a’boot quite awhile ago.
A Canadian player infiltrated our government and hamstrung our community.
And our capital is getting through a lot of syrup these days.
You could forgive a foreign ambassador if they got confused as to which country they were actually in while talking to our key ministers!
Not insinuating anything ofc.
But I conspiracy theorist could give themselves an aneurism.
So how a’boot this merger anyway?
What say we all cash in our passports, become Canadians?
By combining our population with Canada’s we’ll become much more powerful.
How much more powerful you ask?
I’ll illustrate how it will work:
Currently:
600Canadians + 200Irish == 800fighters
After merger:
600Canadians +200IrishCanadians == 37,438,615.01fighters
So atleast we know the math behind the premise is sound…
We must also factor in our expanded avenues with which we can aid our allies.
CanadianMPP's - IrishMPP's = ..ohwait.
On top of that we’ll be able to coordinate our strikes much better.
Because once we become eCanadian citizens we’ll all have our RL schedules shifted 6 timezones to North American time so we can be online at the same time as our Canadian brethren.
There’ll also be all those extra supplies from the government.
I can personally vouch for Canada’s superior supply capacity.
The Canadian Supply Master was always contacting me to ask how we managed to distribute so prolifically. A cunning plan to hide the true power of their supply system.
Besides, our supply system is shut down due to the theft of our treasury.
And ofc, we could never ever just rebuild that again. Never ever.
Ever.
We’ll also benefit from being able to open up less fronts against our enemies.
Which will be great cuz we all know how in a complicated invasion scenario extra strategic OPTIONS just needlessly confuse the situation.
*Since North America is never invaded by multiple nations simultaneously we needn’t concern ourselves with the fact that multiple targets will have atleast 24hrs notice as to where we intend to concentrate because we only have 1 NE..
*Strategic blocking will become a thing of the past (for us anyway)
*NE breaking too
We’ll just be one big predictable blob on the map. Our enemies should be thoroughly discouraged by that.
This is all much better than our current two country system.
*As we all know Ireland is significantly smaller than Canada, making it much harder for our alliance to channel damage through our MPP network. o0
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Then there are the economic bonuses to consider. We’ll have more resources.
All my Canadian friends assure me the economy is much better in eCanada.
They can ALMOST make a profit.
We mustn’t forget the allure of joining Canadian politics either.
Countless hours arguing over the technicalities of legislation created outside the game to while away the winter days. I fondly remember when Congressman in eIreland had their votes struck off the record because they didn’t cast them in Irish. When you got a warning for referring to Congress as “Congress”.
How I miss that petty $hit…
With this litany of reasons for us to become Canadians, the only thing left to consider is what becomes of the newly hollowed out eIreland?
*Well first off, now that medal hunting has gone entirely out of fashion, constant RW’s by medal hunters won’t be a problem for us.
*Any nation invading us wouldn’t dare use RW’s of Irish natural regions against us.
*All the New Citizens born Irish will see that their country is occupied by Canada, ask what’s being done about it, and upon hearing we sold it out, become enlivened to continue playing.
Against us
Who they will refer to
As traitors to our country.
*But that won’t be a big concern. Because when word gets out there is a nation ‘up for grabs’, our time will be spent dealing with the new hostile Irish nation on our border, under control of foreign players’ multies. The opportunity to create an advanced front on the North American border pretty well assures that what few Irish spawn in the former republic will be drowned out by a legion of Serbians.
I could seriously go on for hours on this, but all the sarcasm is wearing me out
Ofc this is all just hypothetical.
You know how us grumpy old men hate to move house anyway
😉
Comments
Love ya Canadians and all.
But we can/do fight for ya from here well enough
If we want to join your nation, we'll just apply for CS
o7
So are you for it or against it?
lol
I laughed my way through it, voted : )
Voted!! LOL great article Sweet!
Amusing, honestly.
Good points. I'm glad someone sees the sense in this plan.
After the initial post suggesting it, I thought we'd all pretty well decided against it anyway?
As I have said in other articles:
Its not coming to fruition. There is no plan to further explore this idea or act upon it.
This idea is dead.
@Liam Tatlock
Nothing wrong with showing why you decided against it. New players can learn from articles like this.
I liked this.
Third time lucky. @ ibhoy : Yes, true.
the few Irish spawn in the former republic will be drowned out by a legion of Serbians.
This sounds so much line New Zealand.
You could have Irish Newspapers written in Serbian - alwaws fund to read after they have been through the translator
Very good article man
naw not 200 irish + 600 canadians but 1600 canadians + 600 irish(rankings)
seeing that inactivity would be relatively constant through all states diminishing your numbers would incorrect or unnecessary since the combined total would be +- the same as england.
anyway as always most original posters was more concerned about someone being paid for regions and leaving them out or something and not realizing that for canadians the game must be extremely stupid hence the bad supply lines.
I didn't realise you were being sarcastic until the last bit ...
they have never NE'd us? and can NE only the USA which is 6 times their size. so i cant see why other arrangements wouldnt be to our combined benefit.
the only error that was made was going to far and demanding integration which is not required.
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Krakken
Canada have worked so closely in the past we ran supply channels for one another.
There is no reason we can't continue to do so. But we're stronger as a team, than as a single entity..
This article wasn't necessary to prevent CanIre which never had a chance of happening atm.
It's a training manual
I'm liking these articles, keep up the good work
made me laugh so hard 😃 great article
Sweet thats what im saying also. But need we always insinuate , insult? And exaggerate our facts. What we and they should decide is whether we should exchange 1 region each so that they can NE england. However because we have exchanged regions(us and england) they may not need it. Anyway since we have a peace treaty with England I would say they should arrange a mutually beneficial NE with them once they have Poland out of their hair. And then we should consider it as well.
Lovely article. I've heard of all sorts of interesting things that small countries like eIreland can do.
Should we start doing some of them?