[Kemal Ergenekon] Why is Kanadia a Failed State?
Aeriadne
Dear readership,
I take a moment from the usual tripe to publish an article from a friend of mine. His name is Kemal, and he's a bit awesome. Due to his Cypriot citizenship, Kemal could not publish this article in his own paper (which you should read and sub) and reach the sort of exposure it might otherwise deserve, thus it being here.
Without further ado, the article.
Why is Kanadia a Failed State?
Fellow eAmericans and snow-loving Kanadians,
I decided to write this article after suffering through many articles and comments in the media regarding the relations between eUS and eCanada. I am usually only deeply irritated when I see racist commentary and hatred based on RL prejudices. It was therefore quite a surprise to me that these comments have had a similar effect, encouraging me to write this article. Apparently, at its extremes ineptitude and ignorance is indistinguishable from racism.
Let's have a broad look at the situation: eUS and eCanada are neighboring countries. eUS is significantly more powerful than eCanada, and this power difference was even more marked in the past. Both countries have enjoyed friendly relations for a long while, interrupted by brief episodes of enmity. The countries have acted together for a long while, fought side by side, swapped resources, etc.
It is also an undeniable fact that eCanada has had quite talentless administration historically. We have seen CPs stealing money from the government, corruption, lack of support of allies, attacking random countries only to be soundly defeated... so on and so forth. Although I am sure many eCanadians might disagree, most of the outside observers would agree with my conclusion that eCanada is not a very good ally. Despite all of this, eUS has been ready to help Canada most of the time and we stuck together through many alliances.
Now let's look at the experience of countries who find themselves in similar geopolitical circumstances: Weak countries neighboring strong ones. The examples I will look at are: Germany and France near Poland and Serbia, and Cyprus near Greece. What do all these countries have in common? Well, the answer is obvious: They are sporadically invaded and colonized by their stronger neighbors. Any peace between these countries is only possible through the smaller countries taking a minor position. Generally, the larger countries demand regions in exchange of no payment. In fact, even allowing the small countries to have congress elections is considered as sufficient payment.
How do these smaller countries deal with the problem? Well, firstly they acknowledge that they have to impose restraint on their actions and rhetoric. They understand that peace is not achievable as long as they hold the MPPs of the enemies of the stronger country. They understand that they cannot charge money for excess resources they have. They understand that they cannot provoke the stronger countries unnecessarily. All these restrictions actually serve to create a strong feedback mechanism that teaches the population to be experts in foreign policy.
Let me give some personal examples: Cyprus is a proud country. We do not accept everything Greece tries to impose on us. However, when they have a legitimate concern, we try to negotiate instead of outright refuse. For instance, Cyprus does not have MPPs with Bulgaria and FYROM. In theory, we could MPP these countries to have better protection against Greece. However MPPs work both ways. They can also be used to open a second front against Greece. This is a legitimate concern, so during the negotiations, we generally accept not to MPP these countries. In return, Greece makes some compromises.
This doesn't always work. Sometimes a government that hates Cyprus comes into power. You cannot really negotiate in these cases; the government refuses to even talk about peace, and tries to invade no matter what. What do we do in this case? Do we troll the hell out of them? Do we insult even the Greek players who prefer an independent Cyprus? Do we MPP the enemies of Greece and accuse Greece for this choice?
There have been instances for both of the scenarios to play out. When we reacted as Canadians now do, we gained nothing. We were permanently deleted for many months. Not fun times, I can assure you. But when level-headed leaders took the charge, we tried to reach the level-headed players on the other side. We did not beg. We did not accept humiliation. Instead of this, we rationally explained why an independent Cyprus is in the best interests of Greece. We reminded them of the times we were allies. We convinced them that we could actually have consistent foreign policy instead of erratic outlashes. In the end, it paid off. We achieved peace, up until one of our less level-headed presidents signed an agreement and broke it by himself the next day xdxd. That taught us who we ought to trust with executive power.
Long story short, if you are a weak country neighboring a strong country, you have to be more careful. Blind rage earns you nothing. Reaching out to reasonable people on the other side earns you everything. In some way, you are forced to learn realpolitik in action. Even when you attack an irrelevant country, you always think of whether your neighbors would intervene. Trust me, having dedicated Greek MUs against your country is not a fate you wish to experience.
Let's come back to the Canadian experience. Let me tell you: You are incredibly lucky to be a neighbor of eUS. Even though you were not a reliable ally, and even though you were weak in comparison, eUS never treated you like Serbia treats Germany/France or Greece treats Cyprus. This is because of the good-hearted players in eUS. Recall Evry's term: When eUS attacked Canada, not just eUS MUs, but *government funded eUS MUs* ignored the orders and fought for you. This is something that doesn't happen anywhere else in the eWorld. You were *saved* because of eUS players, yes, the ones you now insult continuously and the ones you provoke with your MPPs.
Let's come forward to the current point in time. Recently, you have (1)attacked eUK, and therefore Spoland (2)ignored the fact that they were our allies and did not even consult with eUS (3) after defeat, you MPP'd Serbia, the sworn enemy of eUS.
Now, some people claim that eUS did not accept Canada into the alliance. Well, I am not privy to the details, and you are free to publish logs of conversations to prove this. Until that time, I will just consider it as cheap talk. But in any case, I do not believe in all honesty that you would be denied membership unless you tried to dictate unreasonable terms. But let's suppose for a moment that you are right. Let's suppose that eUS government really sold you out, and prevented you from getting in the new alliance. What would be the correct answer?
The correct answer would be to try to reach more level-headed players in eUS. It would be to maintain peace-fostering dialogue. You know that eUS players have fought against their government to save your asses in the past. So you should have just waited it out and tried to change the status quo. Referring to the Cyprus example, you should have tried to contact the rational players on the other side so that peace could be established again.
What did you do? You entered the enemy alliance and MPP'd the sworn enemy of eUS. Some Canadians claim that this is the same thing as eUS making an alliance with Spoland. I haven't heard a more ludicrous statement! Serbia and eUS are enemies like Greece and FYROM are enemies. You cannot even compare the two. Serbs hate eAmericans for real life reasons, and have admitted to this themselves. They hate eAmerican players, motivated by the RL events, the NATO intervention in Kosovo, Bosnia, etc. And they don't just hate us. They have hurt us more than any nation can in this game. They have PTO'd our country. They let in hundreds of illegals. They rigged our elections. They have at one point controlled more than one third of the Congress, disrupting impeachment and natural enemy laws. They have operated countless multiaccounts against us. They have caused us to adopt a low-bonus strategy for months on so that they do not succeed in overtaking the country. They have forced us into using unity elections in CP elections, creating hundreds of problems and deep griefs among our players. They wasted thousands of hours of our active players who organized ATO processes. TRUST ME, NOTHING CAN BE COMPARED TO THIS. Even not having regions and a congress is better. I would know. I experienced both for months.
In short, you should stop hurting yourselves with bad decisions. You should learn to control your impulsive actions and act rationally. You should think of the long term. Do you feel slighted? The answer is not to lash back. The answer is not spitting in the faces of all your friends in eUS by MPP'ing Serbia. The answer is not insulting eAmericans and calling them names, even those who try to reach out.
The answer is to understand your situation, think for a bit, and act wisely. The answer is to learn to be a good neighbor and a good ally. The answer is to learn to keep bad and mercurial politicians out of positions of power. In the end, only you can help yourselves. Lashing out blindly is not honor, it is just stupidity that will lead to certain failure.
This is for your own sake. My 2 cents...
Best regards,
Kemal Ergenekon
eAmerican and eCypriot
Remember to friend the writer and sub his paper. Until next time, y'all.
Comments
Interesting Article, voted
Kemal should write all of my articles. It'd be a better paper.
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You should write all my articles
"...Cyprus does not have MPPs with Bulgaria and FYROM..." in the future, before that bloody reference, please put the whole name of my country
REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Because I'm Macedonian...
Thanks for adding the crucial component at the end xdxd
Of course. 😉
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A bit dramatic, don't you think?
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10/10 would let Kemal ghostwrite for me.
When I was CP of ePhil, I repeatedly entered dialogue with eIndo even after they conquered regions from ePhil without consulting us. I made certain that the line of dialogue was always open to every administration. Yes, they were bigger, vastly so, but we worked *with* them every month to make sure we continued to have a nation. When other nations continually pushed us around, we managed to open ourselves up to continuous dialogue. During my terms as CP we were never wiped for longer than a day (NE mechanics demand wipes ofc) because the aggressive nations understood that we would not be a thorn but rather continually work with them.
The most "honorable" option? I think that securing my country's sovereignty and respect of my neighbors was the most honorable thing I could do for my nation.
I'm not going to sit here and say that eCanada doesn't have a point. I don't agree with the way the current administration has handled the situation either, but in the end the reaction says a lot about what can be expected going forward.
Im there!!! lol
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kaave ve küllük alaym cnm..
iste bunlar hep ameriganin oyunu diyorum xdxd
I'm going to break the media blackout rule that I pushed for just this one time to say something one final time.
"Recall Evry's term: When eUS attacked Canada, not just eUS MUs, but *government funded eUS MUs* ignored the orders and fought for you. This is something that doesn't happen anywhere else in the eWorld. You were *saved* because of eUS players, yes, the ones you now insult continuously and the ones you provoke with your MPPs."
Pickle's Patriots became Pickle's exPatriates and fought for Canada when Evry illegally invaded Canada. We were call traitors and terrorists. Hate spewed forth from fellow Americans. So I call bullshit on your racism. Americans hating other Americans because of a moral conscious decision doesn't paint the rosy picture you do.
Move forward to where we are now. Despite lies and propaganda by the Wild Owl govt. I still have friends in the US that support me, if not the Canadians themselves. So again I call bullshit on this so called attack on all the poor US citizens. I will not bother to repeat the reasons. I will simply state that the US chose for us that Canada would align with Serbia. I will also point out that your unprovoked attack and threat to wipe Canada (how's that going btw?) has brought on our attacks against your precious bonus regions. (Go look, we're gonna RW all 3 tonight).
CP Rylde sat down today with Mr. Wild Owl to discuss the conditions of a NAP so that we could begin to normalize relations. Instead of cooperation Wild Owl offers a slap in the face. If we are to drop our MPP with Serbia why don't you drop your MPP with Poland? Maybe we should start dictating your FA?
We are smaller and weaker, fine we get that. Act like the good ol' days you speak of and we can talk. Act like a big bully who want's us wiped no matter what to teach a lesson and guess what? That's right, RW's of your precious bonus regions forever.
You can comment below this but expect no response.
This is not the Dill I know. That is all I can say.
I know exactly what you mean, Kemal.
This guy seems a lot less like the old Thedillpickl and more like a spoiled teenage girl who has gotten her tampon in wrong.
"Pickle's Patriots became Pickle's exPatriates and fought for Canada"
"We were call traitors and terrorists"
"Hate spewed forth from fellow Americans."
Well, let's look at this. You fought against your country and were vocal about it. You actively worked against the best interest of your country.
Tell me, do you even have an understanding of what the word traitor means? Those actions made you a traitor. When a longtime member of the community turns on the community, people not liking you and spewing forth hate is pretty much what you will get.
Now I realize that you have a very long history of inflating your ego and inflating your own self importance but lately your BS levels have exploded so high (even for you) that your eyes must turn brown and drip excess onto the keyboard as you type. Your Pickle's Patriots has never been anything more than a way for you to stroke your ego by breaking out your credit card and buying your way to friends by giving them free stuff. Honestly, not even Pfeiffer felt the need to name his military unit after himself when he created it. Now send in the Pickle's Patriots members to refute this. However, only the ones you haven't given free supplies to and didn't meet by giving free stuff to. Ask yourself how big that list is? Since you have played this game for years buying followers, can you ever be sure any of those "patriots" will be around if your credit card stops working? Now keep on breaking out your credit card and buying your way to Kanadian friends by funding their RWs. It's a pattern you repeat over and over, since the PEACE invasion era. I believe it was Bolivia you were trying to buy back then.
Could say the same thing about Gnil for a while now tbh.
And when Rylde runs out of money to prop you up with Combat Orders? You've been able to retake regions because we're had multiple fronts, by choice. When that is no longer the case, we can beat you any day of the week with minimal effort.
I highly doubt you guys would drop Baja to keep a few of our regions. Keep dreaming 🙂
We can win both, once you run out of money to buy a billion damage a day.
Also, remember how we have a shit ton of money and haven't needed to set COs yet?
Oh right, yeah, spending money like we held off TWO with for a while... Yeah, once money ran out we were done with--turns out 3+ larger nations will do that even with drains. Money doesn't last very long, more massive playerbases that are more organized and have more reliable allies pretty much dooms you. The fact that Canada has to spend money to beat any one of our semi-notable MU's in damage--as an entire country--sort of speaks volumes. I look forward to seeing how confident Canada is when they're broke.
LOL you guys are too funny. So the smart play here according to all of y'all would be to surrender to your conditions that by the way are absolutely moronic? We should cancel the MPP with Serbia, so who would we be allied with then? You guys already declined us earlier which actually led to us going to Serbia. Actually in the first place we were to be sided with you, poland and etc. Then y'all slammed the door. How you guys cannot realize, that when taking this into account, that this proposal is retarded, is beyond me.
I speak not of this article, but on the attack on Pickle's Patriots.
Count me among the many who side with Thedillpickl for his contributions to eCanada as a whole, and not to me personally. I joined his MU based on the weight of his actions and the quality of his character. He accepted my application based on a mutual hatred of self-righteous, arrogant Americans like morningblur and other would-be character assassins.
The fact that you so vehemently attack him personally makes us like him all the more. It proves he is doing his job, and that you are far thinner-skinned than you pretend to be.
You call him traitor. We call him hero.
@morningblur - Let me get this straight. Dill is stroking his ego and paying for all of us to live the high life, correct? His MU is just his personal fanboy club, and we all worship at the Shrine of the Pickle? That's what you think?
You are sadly mistaken. I have been in this MU for over a year, and Dill has given me nothing other than knowledge and Q7s for working, like any other commune owner would. He doesn't have to "buy" me as a friend, I am his friend because I enjoy what he brings to this game.
What's really funny is a guy talking bad about someone else's ego and MU when they have their very own MU, that no one else is allowed in (or am I wrong?). Do you think that you are that tough and that big of a tank that you don't need anyone's help? Talk about ego.
You can say what you want, frankly I don't care. I'm a nobody around here, and I like it that way. I probably wouldn't even read it if you did respond. But I do take offense your comments, and I think that you are attacking Dill and all of us in his MU, for zero reason. You don't know any of us, and we certainly don't want to know you, at least not now.
Maybe you should think about what you are saying before you go throwing stones. It makes you look bad.
"when they have their very own MU, that no one else is allowed in (or am I wrong?). Do you think that you are that tough and that big of a tank that you don't need anyone's help?"
The MU I have is private because.....it's not a real MU...who'd have thought that....I don't want new players mistakenly joining something I made to do the DO where I choose to fight.....sorry to spoil your gotcha moment but there are usually reasons for most things....take care
Can you also reach your hand so far up your ass as you do with your excuses and arguments? Fascinating.
"Can you also reach your hand so far up your ass as you do with your excuses and arguments?"
I see you subscribe to the theory of insulting when you are unable to come up with an intelligent response. He made an incorrect assumption so I corrected it. For example no one can be "tough" as he called it in a browser game. Also my account's strength rating is far from being anywhere close to "that big of a tank". And no reasonable person would believe that a 1 man MU has much effect. So all in all he was grasping at some kind of gotcha moment that's just not there.
The thing is , my statements rang true. Maybe a bit too true for you two. If there was nothing to what I said then it would've been ignored and forgotten like the thousands of other comments made on here daily. Yet you both sprung into defense mode to defend against what you see truth in yet just don't like. I've known quite a few players who have given gold, cash, companies and items to other players yet didn't need the ego stroke of having their names attached to everything they did. They simply did it because they wanted to help others. Now take care and have a good day at school kid
LOL so who's now resorting to name calling? "School kid"?! According to your logic, how could you be sure by just one comment in a browser game? If you were to be a so cool headed and rational dude you wouldn't have resorted to this utter political-politeness-smuttering-like-a-mutt-under-the-rug talk. I hate these "trying-to-be-a-smartass" people. Either be an asshole or be polite, don't try to camouflage your shit talking under polite words. I mean it would be cool if done perfectly so people don't notice (like a professional politician), but if it's done sloppy (as usual when people overestimate their wittiness) like you do, then it is just laughable.
But on to the matter at hand, my last reply didn't just go about what Lan said, but moreso to everything you've stated here overall. This whole going at Dill and making him seem like someone searching for a egoboost is reaching for a red paint can on the ladder. Just make sure the paint can doesn't fall on you and make you out to be a red bullseye. As I know you're a mutt asshole just out for blood I know I won't be able to change your mind. But I'll state it anyhow. The MU dill made is the only thing keeping me (and many others) in this game, if I were to quit I would keep personal off-game contact with dill if not with many other of my MU mates. And it's not because dill has given me a lot of gold or support. I've gotten some yes (as in all the MU's people get help). Now this goes all against your theory of dill just buying a MU and people are there because he gives shit away for free. In fact he doesn't give that much free shit away either, he's a reasonable guy. If however people were there only for free shit, then you wouldn't see people keeping personal contacts with other people from a freakin' browser game. I normally don't talk much but seeing bitter mutts trying to reach for arguments to bash a good dude pissses me the fuck off. Yes I'm in asshole mode, so I resort to calling names, deal with it mutt.
Calm down, buddy. Go eat some pickles or something. Take a break and stop taking the game so hard.
We both know that a lot of the meta-active forum folks in the eUS have had it out for Canada for a while. We both know that there's truth in what Kemal had to say here just like there's truth in what you say above. Let's let the current administrations move out, clear your head, and let's try things again.
Just take a break for a bit. You're letting things get to you, and I'm pretty sure that's not how you want to play the game.
LOL are you kidding me? We should take a break?! How about you calm your own boys down first who really started a personal issue with our group. Not even talking about the overall shit between USA and Canada.
@Johnny Cache: You must like pronouns.
I'm not talking about "we" or "you" or "my boys" or even really anything regarding the eUS or eCan. I was talking to dill as a friend. Not you or anyone else.
Yeah after reviewing this it is my bad. Sorry for that. These replys to Dill's initial comment have gotten so long that I somehow saw your comment as a response to Lansizzle's comment not Dill's initial one. Again sorry about that!
No worries.
It's in human nature to get a little hot under the collar at times. It means enough that you took a second to reread and apologize.
tl;dr version: Quit being stupid whinny babies and try to repair the damage.
Good article, Kamal!
Currently running for eAus CP; this struck a deep chord with me. Good article.
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buna caps diyenin 😛
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All I'm getting from this article is that, since we share a border and you are stronger, we should bend over backwards to stay on your side. Sorry, but we don't work that way.
If country A decides to invade us, it is not at all unreasonable for us to MPP the strongest enemy of country A. What did you want us to do? Not MPP anyone and just get down on our knees and beg you to stop invading? What good would that do? You'd still want B.C. and Quebec and we'd have no control over it.
This article is telling eCanada to bend over and let the eUS do what it wants. We say no. And as long as you don't respect that, you'll have RW's popping up like acne on a teenager's face. Enjoy.
Did we attack you before or after you allied Serbia?
And why would you think that these cheap.threats would work? ;p
Did we ask to be friends with you before we MPP'd Serbia?
And, yet, you were the one to propose a NAP, Rylde.