[USA] The Pacifica Epilogue
USA Department of Defense
Dear American players,
Dear eRepublik players,
we founded Pacifica just over 4 years ago. This makes it one of the most durable alliances in the game. In this time, however, it became the primary policy of most alliance members to affiliate with other Asteria and pro-Asteria countries. While our past administrations have tried to follow suit, we haven't been able to achieve this level of affiliation. We wanted to stay friends with countries on both sides - pro-Asteria and anti-Asteria. This profound reason is also why we find ourselves in the current situation.
Today the USA leaves the Pacifica alliance.
This is a very hard decision for us to make and first we want to thank our Pacifica allies for their friendship in the past years. Our leaving follows months-long discussion internally among our MU Commanders and political leaders before culminating with a vote in (shadow) Congress. It is a direct consequence of the multiple air strikes following which we have been occupied for 5 months now by multiple enemies, all stronger than us.
Thank you, Pacifica countries, for your friendship throughout the last few years!
Following these recent events, our players acknowledged that we lack a true commitment to either side. And while this ensured our safety for these past years, it is also the reason for our current suffering. So, upon becoming President, the US community (via our MU Commanders) asked me to "choose one side and stick with it".
The analysis was simple - most of the Pacifica countries have close ties to Asteria and pro-Asteria. Some even share MPPs with Asteria. However, despite the initial attack on US being launched by Croatia, now more than 2/3 of our core regions are currently occupied by a coalition of Asterian and pro-Asterian countries - Lithuania, Bulgaria and Macedonia, with 0 prospect of them agreeing to cooperate with us in any way.
The other available choice - anti-Asteria, also consists of countries who occupy us. They also organise regular attacks against fellow Pacifica allies. So, on paper it sounds like an impossible choice. Therefore, I started exploring the future, the ambitions of our occupiers and their motives for occupying us in the first place.
The result was that the door to pursue pro-Asterian affiliation is closed for us. It's a shame, because it used to be the direction where the USA was supposed to be going a few years ago when I was last in an US administration before coming back to the game earlier this year. But we have failed in this endeavour and now is too late to try again.
Anti-Asteria consists of many countries with which we have been allies in the past. Events from the recent past are definitely not all forgotten and forgiven, but several opportunities exist for the US in this space. First, just like we are, other anti-Asteria countries have lost their cores, while others are seriously threatened to lose theirs. Second, we risk of losing our communities because of the prolonged occupation by the enemy. And third (a bit more positive), our damage means something to anti-Asteria.
In summary, several years ago we went on a course to join the anti-Asterian circles. But we did a half-assed job, because we stayed friends with and supported countries which fight against them. It is time to go back to square 1. And unfortunately the first thing we have to do is to leave Pacifica. It is hard to say goodbye to friends, but we are in no position to pursue the same FA direction, as the Pacifica member countries. We have to go our way and prove to the eWorld that we are not the half-assed country they consider us to be.
USA, we have been wiped for 5 months now, but the hardest part starts now. We are on a path to cleanse our name as a community and I thank you for choosing me to be your leader in these tough times. Me and my administration intend to carry on with this hard task and will need your full cooperation on the battlefield in the next weeks and months. Because of Plato's recent changes to the determination rule, our occupiers are going to start swapping regions and I will communicate with you additionally what opportunities there are for us. Watch this space!
The Mike
USA Country President August 2018
Comments
First for USA and Pacifica.
Thank you!
Thank you for your diligence.
o7
o7
Yes! You are finally putting eAmerica first! Let's leave this weak alliance and start winning again! All hail The Mike! You are saving our country! FINALLY!
LOL good one ^
Quite a humble piece. I dont recall particular competence/activity from MU commanders (representing the community) in achieving any form of defense. This route is however, as it has always been, fully in line with "the eAmerican way". When things get rough, the eUS gets packing to find new friends.
Pacifica policy worked very well because we had a balance in PL leaning to Asteria and Hun leaning to anti-Asteria. Nobody touched us because it would tip the balance. Since that balance is gone, it was easy to see the problems coming, but no administration did prepare for it.
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I was hoping Rainy would have done this under her presidency but regardless it is done so good job Mike
I support this!! o7 Mister President.
Hard choices must be done, sometimes.
New Beginning
NEW!!!
Good Sweden is evil
Time to come back 🙂
I voted to go pro-Anti-Asteria several Months ago in Congress and nothing happened. IMO you need a Congress and a stronger Fanatical Dioist creed for me to return.
Its something
Might as well. We're not good enough to be an ally to anyone anyways
USA is good enough to be our allies 🙂
Thank you... i needed that!
BEST CHOICE! YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED IN USA COMMUNITY!
o7
It was not only that you had friends from both sides (in my opinion there is no problem with that) but rather how you treated everyone, even your friends, that led to your present situation. So you should take a side now mainly because unless it's hard to believe that you will be a reliable ally for anyone. It's not easy and you still don't do it. Of course there can't be any improvement in the relations with other countries if you don't acknowledge what you did against them and doesn't look like that you changed. So you are now out of Pacifica and what? What has changed?
lol
A wide spread leadership change is what has happened. We have acknowledged poor decisions of the past, and even have had friendly discussions with your country while I was VP(PM) a few months ago. So I'm not really sure how you can say we aren't attempting to set us on a better path to correct our mistakes, and acknowledge those mistakes. We will forge forward, mend bridges where there is a willingness to mend, and perhaps forge new friendships as we as a nation a community move forward.
I appreciated your friendliness towards Ireland, but to be honest I think you were friendly only because you got deleted while you were attacking us and this was the easiest way for you to get back some regions otherwise you just wouldn't had cared. To make friendships your friends should be sure that you won't attack them like you did to us and to some other countries that thought you to be friends. I haven't seen public apology to Croatia and Hungary for the way you talked about them and for attacking them and undermining them in the alliance without any reason. They would had fought for you when Bulgaria, Macedonia and Lithuania came if you hadn't dumped them. And now you dump your last allies who were still willing to help you.
I realize you don't really know me but that's not how I roll. Carlos and I were not extending goodwill because we were trying to butter up eIreland, it was a genuine attempt to re-open dialog as a new government. You can take what I say at face value and don't have to read between the lines. As for the rest fair enough. The apology should really come from those that made the wrongs but we know that will never happen. Course most of them aren't even active now so there's that, and rest aren't involved in the current gov. To be fair Mike isn't breaking up our friendships but eUSA also hasn't received a welcome mat greeting from the allies to which they are courting. It would be difficult to expect us to stay in an alliance that despite our friendship doesn't have the same goals. It doesn't mean we are going to start attacking our former Pacifica allies, or that we will never help them either. It just means that now we are free to pursue our fence mending without obstacles. Now is not the time for eUSA to be in an alliance, we need time to heal, mend, and forge a new path.
I really liked Carlos and I was open for dialog but I have to tell I am not interested in closer relationship with countries that try to undermine our allies Croatia, Hungary, Turkey, etc, our relationship with them will always be first as we can fully trust them and we can always count on them, and based on my past experiences I am unsure about your intentions. Apology should come not from persons, but from the government of the eUSA that is responsible for the actions of the previous governments. It's easy to say I should forget about what has been done, you have nothing to do with it because you are new people. You can't rebuild trust if you do not take responsibility for what your country has done in the past. In the government were maybe different people, but they were elected by the same community and the continuity didn't break.
Just a few weeks ago Pacifica went "all-in" to free US and e.g. Finland still suffers the consequences of that campaign... And now you are leaving. Sad day for Pacifica.
That's the way in the USA:
Help US! Meh WE are still down. Our alliance cannot help US. WE shall leave the alliance. Does anyone else love US?
"all-in" really what a joke
I have an opinion, too.
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Hail USA,!! very smart choice!
a good start of change
Después de jugar suciamente en ambos lados algún día tenía que estallar la mierda, no era nada nuevo, todo ere lo sabía , además merecido.
Fíjate que España después de tantos años invadida por ustedes entre otros y no solos porque no podéis , esta vez pasó de ustedes y no entró al juego como los demás , agradecer lo bien que nos hemos portado.
Agradecer a Portugal tbn que no haya entrado en el juego como españa
ke se io no zoy 100tifiko :C
Waiting for this article whole day to see you weeping about Asteria. Nothing changes puppets..
Well you are a just a ray of sunshine. A real gem!
Dude what?
A little more respect to these people, some of them are totally different compared to Khere, Julius or WO...
Please be so kind and don't dare comparing Khere to Wild Owl.
Indeed, and the kind of attitude that prevents change.
Maybe i don't want a change..
you may not want it but changes are coming thx to Admin
Sure your right, but then don't call someone else a puppet.
You can't seem to break free from that puppet mentality. 😉
How about a buy ya' a beer (or two), and we laugh and banter about besides puppetry. 😉 Actually better yet since I'm not much of a beer guy myself I'd love to try some Croatian wine as I've never had any or Rakija sounds yummy. 😁
here we go
A lot of mistakes have been done in the past.
What is the way out? How to fix it?
To make even more mistakes.
Like u cared about USA lol lost respect for you because you guys didn't even defend USA when they got attacked by pro-asterian countries. Your close with Bulgaria and MKD yet did not ask them to withdraw from USA so your alliance could focus on Anti-Asteria but Russia was supposedly a friend to USA? That's a joke!
This appeal about respect sounds especially nice from a player who has left her native (?) country in the time of trouble to join the occupying force