We're The Good Guys
Day 465, 12:03
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Published in USA 
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by Hari Michaelson
---Letter From The Editor---
I would just like to say: RWAR. Fucking finally.
- Editor-on-the-Edge
Hari Michaelson
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For every dozen or so people chanting RWAR, you can find at least one person opposing it.
"If we do this, we're no better than the imperialists like eIndonesia and eRomania!'
I call for every citizen in the New World to stop saying the word "imperialist". It has become tired, over-used, and honestly no-one is buying into it anymore. The people that hold high-minded ideals about the eUSA being a world power that is somehow "above" or "better than" these sort of actions is simply the only person not laughing at a joke that everyone else gets. This act of branding any nation who expands territorially an "imperialist" allows us to sit back and enjoy our moral high-ground while the "imperialists" continue to expand in power and influence.
No one cares but you.
"People are just going to think of us as prick eAmericans!
At what point does this really matter? Why do we become pricks the moment we decide to step foot outside of our own land? And once again, why does it really matter?
I'm sure tons of people see the eIndonesians, eRomanians, eNorwegians, eIranians and ePakistanis as pricks. Look at how much that has effected the growth of their nations.
"We're picking on eMexico! We're taking out a tiny little poor nation! We're bullies!"
I guess we should go pick a fight with somebody who'll stomp us instead.
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There are no good guys. There are no bad guys. There's only power, and the more time we spend patting ourselves on the back for not going after it, the more time we give others to take it.
I'll take despised over conquered any day.
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The Muckraker: Demanding satisfaction since before it was cool.
I would just like to say: RWAR. Fucking finally.
- Editor-on-the-Edge
Hari Michaelson
---
For every dozen or so people chanting RWAR, you can find at least one person opposing it.
"If we do this, we're no better than the imperialists like eIndonesia and eRomania!'
I call for every citizen in the New World to stop saying the word "imperialist". It has become tired, over-used, and honestly no-one is buying into it anymore. The people that hold high-minded ideals about the eUSA being a world power that is somehow "above" or "better than" these sort of actions is simply the only person not laughing at a joke that everyone else gets. This act of branding any nation who expands territorially an "imperialist" allows us to sit back and enjoy our moral high-ground while the "imperialists" continue to expand in power and influence.
No one cares but you.
"People are just going to think of us as prick eAmericans!
At what point does this really matter? Why do we become pricks the moment we decide to step foot outside of our own land? And once again, why does it really matter?
I'm sure tons of people see the eIndonesians, eRomanians, eNorwegians, eIranians and ePakistanis as pricks. Look at how much that has effected the growth of their nations.
"We're picking on eMexico! We're taking out a tiny little poor nation! We're bullies!"
I guess we should go pick a fight with somebody who'll stomp us instead.
---
There are no good guys. There are no bad guys. There's only power, and the more time we spend patting ourselves on the back for not going after it, the more time we give others to take it.
I'll take despised over conquered any day.
---
The Muckraker: Demanding satisfaction since before it was cool.
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Hari Michaelson, you are an evil evil man! I mean just think about how the eIndonesians will view us now! Do you want that on your conscious?! *sobbing I don't! I don't 🙁
It's very true. Eventually you realise that all international politics are essentially amoral. Everyone's going to play with the war module, it's just human nature.
That's why I say I've been without a good ruck for a while, and I can't wait to take on the Mexos 😃
Fight Smart New Guys, don't miss your chance.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/fighting-101-prepare-for-war-743078/1/20
Despite what our President says, I think it is in our national security interests to completely annex Mexico.
Yes we're dealing with humans, but the fact of the matter is that at some point we have to take the slings and arrows that they throw at us in order to better our own people. I feel that this war does that, and even if we went in purely to purge the Poles there would be no way to alter the reaction of the South American countries.
I'm not going to sit idly by and let other people continue to grow in power for fear that some people in South America are going to shit their pants about it.
Oh, and for the lulz: I just wrote "South American Countries" as "South American Colonies". Freudian slip? XD
I have previously voiced concerns about this based on two key questions, none of which I consider to be shallowly anti-imperialist or pacifistic:
1. Is the best use of our resources right now?
2. Will this leave us in a better position overall in the long-term?
On both counts, my answer has gone from a reflexive "No" to a reflective "I'm not sure."
Yes. War is a central component of the game design. The "international politics" of the game depend heavily on an amoral realism, but unlike Risk or what have you where you are pushing around plastic pieces and roll dice, we're dealing with actual human players whose opinions shape the game's outcomes. We trade with them, for one, and there's also the fact that if they ever get really, uniformly sick of us, they could hypothetically threaten our security. Already the Latin American press is going nuts about this, with the Venezuelan Defense minister passing out moving tickets and calling for a bloc to protect Latin America from our "agresión imperlialista". Does this matter? Not really. No combined Latin American force can threaten us right now.
This Mexico business will be interesting. I already have plans to fight. I just wish I were more confident that it had been properly thought through.
*** For all the giddy hawks ***
Kill! KILL! ANNIHILATE! DESTROY!
Let's hope this doesn't end badly.
Oop. Reedited my comment. No pants-sh*tting is happening here, Hari. I'm no dove. I'm just trying to keep our powder dry and think a little bigger.
Not that that isn't a prudent way to look at things.
Well I can't say that I completely agree with you. How America is viewed by the rest of the world is more important than you act like it is, however, it's not the most important thing like some people seem to think. I think the way we balance the two positions we hear from the people is to go into Mexico and beat them senseless. Then, once we're sure that the Poles are gone, we let them have their country back. That way we're not really imperialist, we're liberators.
I'm not saying we should throw it out the window Neil, but I think that too often people allow that to dictate their entire position on matters such as this. Additionally, I think that people tend to forget that the New World has a tendency to associate the RL US with the eUS, and there is nothing we can do about that.
@Eugene
Can you stop being so hardcore? You're making me look bad.
@Hari yeah I think you're right, there's nothing we can really do about that, might as well focus on the people that are actually reasonable.
the conquest war and future RW's would be great for XP and rank/damage increases. would be great to keep one region as bait for weekly resistance wars to sharpen our talons