Maine Senator: Why I Support the Peace Treaty
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by seeker1
The past weeks have been the most difficult of my elife. All Congresspeople will make the same statement. And it is true.
At the time we voted to accept the treaty, we had spent several weeks discussing the possibility of a treaty part of the day, fighting losing battles at other times, and watching the eUSA lose state after state. Opponents of the treaty believed that even if we lost all states, lost our existence as a nation, and lost our ability to generate funds for resistance through taxes, we would best help ourselves and our allies by living in other nations and fighting Resistance Wars to regain our lost regions. They believed that the funds the eUS has in various orgs, donations from those citizens who remained loyal to our resistance, and the possible emergence of fractures among the nations composing PEACE would enable us to regain some lost regions and expand from there.
Supporters of the treaty, myself included, watched as the eUSA was reduced to eleven, ten, nine. eight. . . regions. We could imagine no way to stop this slow bleeding. We could imagine no way that we could fight enough successful RWs against the enemies that had just defeated our entire military in state after state. We wanted to preserve at least a few regions, have a tax base and existence as a nation. And we expected to be able to buy back at least the most important of our states--those with high resources and those with a concentration of companies. This would allow us to begin quickly to rebuild our economy.
The largest objection to the treaty seems to be the feeling that the eUSA should never give up, should fight to the end, even if we have no nation left. To that, I ask "How would you recover from that? What would you do?"
A second objection is the necessity of paying for our conquered regions. To that I can only say "Unfortunately we lost them in a war. Our enemies want payment to give our former regions back. Fighting a RW to reclaim each of them would cost us much more."
As I write this, it is very possible that we will see what happens if we fight to the bitter end, as opponents of the treaty wished. Russia has not yet accepted the treaty--a failure that voids it. If that happens, I wish us all Godspeed.
seeker1
Senator from Maine
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Seeker1, I read most of your Congressional Reports and I'd like to say keep up the fine work as Congressman. Don't think I have really disagreed with you on any of your votes.
I appreciate the support, Polkadot. Thank you.
The interesting thing I have noticed is that those who are for the treaty generally lay out reasoned arguments behind their decision while those against it *generally* resort to simple "death before dishonor" type arguing without really stating why *not* signing would be beneficial or how they envision us helping our allies and ourselves while down to 2,1 or zero states left ...
Good article, I appreciate you sharing your reasoning (and for the record, I agree).
thanks, I just want to know where the treaty stands now that Russia has said it will not honor the treaty. will the rest of the nations sign?
i hope Maine is one of the last states purchased back.
spineless coward
If the people of Maine had ther voice's herd last election I would be in congress and voted NO on this surrender! but you vote moved, again
It's unlikely that peace will be able to take all of our territories, but in the event that they do, we relocate. We live in another country, continue fighting and saving cash, and when the time is right, we RW our regions until we set up a q5 hospital and defense, and we push back through all of our original regions while other countries have no MPPs against us and we can form as many as we please.
You don't die if you lose your country.
NO PEACE WITH PEACE
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Peace with peace means revive the USA to a shadow of its formal self, and greatly finance PEACE so they can continue the war against Spain and other nations allied to us.
This will only serve to help our enemies.
besides Russia is demanding more gold then previously agreed to. This further demonstrates negotiations are useless.
heliarc- Maine hasn't been conquered. We wouldn't have to buy it back in any case, and what's your plan for turning this around at this point? I hate to say it, but we got creamed, PEACE came at us with everything and we lost.
This is the price of defeat. Our best chance to make a come back is to accept that we lost THIS round.