Resignation: Of Honour
SaraDroz
Woe, Woe to eSwitzerland!!!!! To them eAustria brings war!!! Not even ourselves... but we shall let the eHun and Phoenix hordes through to an arguably pro Eden nation...
The 'Dirty Deal'
Yes Wilhelms article disclosure article I am told is TRUE. I was amazed... when I first saw this article but it has been confirmed to me on IRC that it is indeed correct. eAustrias long held neutrality is effectively over and in the course of one conversation, without Congress consultation (to my knowledge), eAustria has firmly moved to the Phoenix camp.
How so? Well I asked President Fragreg fair and square in eAustria Caninet IRC if he would alow eHungary through to eSwitzerland. He replied that he would. I resigned.
The Apologists
Loads of these I've had... "Eden burned their bridges with us", "What did you expect?", "Is your priority the survival of eAustria?" and last but most forceful the "😉
o we have a choice?" arguement.
Let me deal then with the last arguement, which as I have explained to several Cabinet members is essentialy the logical fallacy of argumentum ad baculum. In English this is arguement with a threat "😉
o it or else..." but an ad baculum argument is fallacious when the punishment is not logically related to the conclusion being drawn.(Wiki) To explain in simple terms:
"Let us through or we bash you" is logicaly identical to saying "2+2 = 5 or I kill you!"... happily it doesn't make 2+2 = 5. Existence has nothing to do with a reason to agree, only to comply. "Comply" implies force and while I understand that our President may feel 'forced' to agree I am not forced to agree and make my choice accordingly.
eSwitzerland.
Now it one thing to destroy our neutrality and let Phoenix pass (in the shape of eHungary) pass through our regions. Indeed our application to Entente may benefit from this (though it says little of Ententes independance from Phoenix) as it would help eFrance - which is the goal. These decisions our Congress have a right to make.
However we are also deciding here for eSwitzerland on whose behalf we have NO RIGHT to decide. Suppose eHungary at their border and they do not wish this? It has been said to me "Why would they vote the MPP if they didn't agree?" Maybe for the promised training war??
As MoFa I was never asked to contact the eSwiss Government about their views. However since my resignation I did and while eSwitzerland remains very much unsure of it's position (it's Shaolin Government is eRussian) I got the following reply:
SaraD Pascal_Couchepin the eSwiss Government agrees?
08:52 Pascal_Couchepin not at all
I will state it very clearly: Not only have me destroyed our neutrality we have added to this a dishonour of letting Phoenix into our neighbour without asking them! What God given right do we have to decide for them? Or was this to save ourselves too? My answer was: None.
Lets be Friends: Guarantees and Burnt Bridges
Yesterday Phx wanted a training war with us... now they want to pass through with a threat of force. But hold up... who occupies Burgenland and wasn't that supposed to be returned? Do YOU trust them? The Cabinet does NOT so why on earth do we not have guarantees? Gold deposits to be returned when they have left would be a first step, taking strong MPPs on the other side would be advisable. What guarantees has eSwitzerland been given? Same us: None.
Now it is one thing to be friends and have ppl think you are 'compliant' because of their stick and quite another to throw oneself headlong into the jaws of a crocodile and rely on it's benevolence. The first is illogical and the second is insane. In this case the 'crocodile' has already bitten us in Burgenland...
Not only this but to compound these multiple follies and fallacies we burn our bridges with Eden... who - without any enforceable or financial or ANY guarantee except the 'smile of a crocodile' - would be our only hope. I am sorry but as a Government Minister this was not sufficient for me. Nor is making an enemy of Eden wise without Phoenix guarantees as we will almost certainly face PTO trouble.
The Phoenix/Rhone Alps Equation.
It is understandable that eFrance wants their origional regions back and I have personaly, in the past, tried to bring them to an agreement with eSpain (and ePoland at the time). eAustria has applied to join Entente. We are not yet accepted not has our Congress decided on any terms Entente may have... We have NOT applied to join Phoenix. I can understand why eFrance must ask Phoenix for help but if Entente is to truly become something other "Phoenix' little Brother" then it not a reason for us - who are not yet members - to accept this.
Moreover there is an existing route already open for Phoenix via eSlovenia and eItaly! Why then when we are not even an Entente member are we and eSitzerland the preffered route? Had the choice been mine I would have pointed this out to Phoenix and told them to 'go elsewhere' as their question endangers us and without any guarantees and dishonours me on behalf of eSwitzerland (with whom and for whom I would require long talks and guarantees).
Fragreg and Conclusion: Bye
Fragreg is and will always remain a friend of mine and I am sorry I can no longer support his Government. As a person and as President I continue to give him my support and whatever happens in the future I will always try to help the friends I have made here in eAustria and certainly Fragreg is and will prove to be a wise and great ePresident.
When I came here I said I did not wish in any way to PTO or sway your decisions: Honour is important to me. I came to advise and to then to set up your MoFa Department. The Government has decided and I respect it's decision. The decision is however incompatible with what I regard as honour or sense. My respect for the President and for eAustria will continue but I cannot force myself to agree with what I don't agree with. This is my honour too...I hope you will understand.
Comments
~hyuu~
I approve this article!
fine, don't watch my video ;_;
Nice article !
interesting one.
Let EDEN propagandists into government and you get articles like this 😛
*hugs* to you too Iain but you offer no counter arguement.
*cookie* ?
"However we are also deciding here for eSwitzerland on whose behalf we have NO RIGHT to decide."
Funny...last time I checked it was Switzerland who offered the MPP and they voted 24:10 for it. Where exactly do we decide for them?
"SaraD Pascal_Couchepin the eSwiss Government agrees?
08:52 Pascal_Couchepin not at all"
lol...that's like asking Kaiser Alex if our current government agrees on something (no offense Kaiser).
I on the other hand talked with the elected president (just for you info: that's Clifford Burns) and he is fully aware of the consequences and eSwitzerland receives a generous payment.
"😉o YOU trust them? The Cabinet does NOT so why on earth do we not have guarantees?"
'The Cabinet' had a long discussion about that and as far as I know everybody present agreed on it. I really doubt you can talk here in the name of 'the cabinet' at all...
These are just three obvious falsehoods I wanna point out here. You made a great MoFa but this is a shameful end. Especialy for somebody who talks about 'honor' all the time...
i totally see your point sara.
however im pro PHX, and i enjoy harming EDEN puppets (if so) since EDEN has harmed us often, forcing us into this position.
i see its against your honour, but what eden does wasnt honourable at all.
Long live France
Long live Entente 🙂
sad thing, seems your eden-roots are stronger than your will to help eAustria - i hoped to see you reaching the goals in Austria you wrote about
@Penegrin: Switzerland is officialy an EDEN-member, but still under a russian (PH😵 PTO, Clifford Burns is part of it.
Well, farewell for now. We did our roles quite good in this eDrama, i think. As for the future I know in the grimm darkness of the near future there is only WAR.
Please fasten your seatbells.
@Penegrin.
Did some one inform our congress what they were voting on when they where "advised" to vote yes on the Switzerland MPP?
To me it looks like our one people got tricked to get this through..
@Fragreg. Please don't do anything unreversable before you got congress approval.
drama. everyone to
@Fragreg. Please don't do anything unreversable before you got congress approval.
x2
RIP SaraDroz!
<- fastened my seatbell and awaiting orders, Sir.
WAR 😃
Voted!
"I on the other hand talked with the elected president (just for you info: that's Clifford Burns) and he is fully aware of the consequences and eSwitzerland receives a generous payment."
@ Penegrin: As I told you, Clifford Burns is a PTO-president. See yourself if you don't believe this:
http://www.erep.cc/elections/president?d=201005&country=30">http://www.erep.cc/elections/president?d[..]y=30
http://www.erep.cc/elections/president?d=201006&country=30">http://www.erep.cc/elections/president?d[..]y=30
Polly Nosova is from the same group as Clifford Burns. Both were supported by Shaolins, the PTO-group from Russia. The difference? Polly got 140 votes, minus some 40 votes because they came from multis created by Russians. Clifford Burns got some 40 votes more without vote-suppression, although they were only multis-votes... Arschmann, the leader of the groupe, told me yesterday that they won by this way. Well, just to say that I talked to Sara as v-MoI in exile...
Furthermore, since yesterday, we don't have any majority in the congress anymore. Why? Because surprisingly, at the same day where the MPP-proposal started, two accounts of our congressmen were hacked and they weren't able to vote against the MPP-proposal... Again, we have many reasons to think that they were hacked by Russians. We had a 21-majority against a 20 minority... and now we still only have 19 seats. If the proposal got 24 votes, either some other accounts were hacked, or some of our congressmen who aren't active considered the Clifford propaganda credible... Yeah, that's cool to have a free MPP! Oh yes, and we will get a lot of money! Who will get the money? The country? Mmm, aloud me to doubt...
Just to say: this is a real dirty deal. Thanks to all Austrians who supported us. Austria sadly played with our friendship... and many of us won't forget this!
I can understand why you feel this way, I've seen things like this happen to many countries, all smaller of course because of the pressure of EDEN/PHX to want to move through to accomplish their goals :/ You should come visit in ePhilippines though 😉
There is no neutrality, the country that are neutral are in fact dying of boredom, Now that austria has chosen it's side, they can expect retaliation.
And I hope that they won't cry when they will get what they sought.
LoL, we choosen our side few weeks ago.
Me is sad
I would have appreciated more of your nearly perfect articles.
As everybody knows that I'm a big PHX-supporter in eAustria I think I don't need to say that I'm supporting this anti-EDEN operation. The only 2 things I will say though are:
1)Our president is a Hun! What do you expect?
2)No Neutral-PHOENIX-compromise(=Entente)! Join PHX!
Sara, I didn't get to know you, but thanks for coming to Austria to offer your support here. Sorry things didn't work out better.
Just so you know, I was a believer in Austrian neutrality for quite a while, but having lived here for the past few months and having our country run over time and again has made me rethink that somewhat.
Good luck!
SMG, what makes the world go around. It seems soon enough it is time for the last one.