Canada: A Victorious State.
Xander Kross
Situations are tense, brothers and comrades. But, at the same time, it's all really quite hilarious. I am having a grand old time reading through the Murikan media, seeing how little they realize their own foolishness and how easily they swallow even the most outrageous lies and transparent propaganda, and then vomit it back out as terrifying fact.
Let's take this "failed state" article, for starters. HERE is a handy link in case you missed it.
A shining piece of Murikan propaganda, written by a very confused, hatemongering citizen of Cyprus. It suggests that Canada should be perfectly content to be a puppet state for whosoever wishes to dominate her, and to thank her kind, benevolent overlord for table scraps and continued slavery. It suggests that Canada should shut its wet mouth and be grateful that Murika is so wonderful and kind and knows well how to treat its pets - no matter how wayward and ornery those pets might be.
POPPYCOCK! All of it. An entertaining read, but ultimately absent of fact or merit. I recommend reading it as a lesson on how to offer a compelling argument using only misdirection, opinion, false comparisons and circular logic, and avoiding any kind of fact.
I find it delightful that the article calls Canadians "racist," right off the bat. He hurls stones at us for saying such terribly mean and hateful things about them in the media. Well, let's look at some comments and and whatnot, culled from a number of different published articles.
"Kanada is irrelevant..." - morningblur, Murikan citizen.
"The only good Kanadian is a dead Kanadian." - Publius, Murikan Congress Member
"Lol dumb Canada." - TellUrGrlThx, then Murikan Minister of Education, currently governor
"Kanaderp" - Disco Musolini, then Murikan Minister of Defense
"Kanada..." - Wild Owl, then Murikan Country President, in presidential addresses, current Minister of Foreign Affairs
"I fully support permanent anti-Kanadian policy." - Kemal Ergenekon, confused eCyprus citizen, author of the propaganda piece.
If saying perjorative things about people from another country is "racist" (it's actually not - Murikan is a nationality, not a race), then the author and the government he defends is "racist" by the very same definition. But no one in "Kanadia" is going to hammer that pointless and obfuscatory nail. Opponents trash-talk one another. Are we supposed to sing praises? Compose sonnets? Murika invaded us - what rational person would expect us to speak kindly, especially when inundated with unceasing American scorn, condescension and ridicule at every possible turn?
The author (Kemal Ergenekon, be sure to drop him a note) pursues pointless chicken-and-egg arguments and makes completely self-defeating statements - for example, the bit about how government-funded Murikan military units "saved" Canada from an attack by the Murikan government, and how this means Canada is so very fortunate to live next to such a generous and benevolent super-power. If anything, it is evidence that even the Murikan people - some of whom are sane and reasonable - cannot trust their own elected officials and must revolt against them to preserve sanity. No other country in the eWorld does this? Of course not. No other country is run by such a broken pack of drooling cretins.
Of course, that was last term's pack of drooling cretins. Oh wait - our old friend Wild Owl is this term's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Many of the same anti-Canadian officials have been recycled under Gnilraps' regime. Murika hates the rest of the world, and they put their resident psychopaths in the official positions to prove it. Some of us held hope that Gnilraps would be an improvement over the last psychopath, but then he offers us this bit of lunacy:
"There was quite a bit of noise about Canada leading into the election. Among other things, I offered to negotiate with Canada, but I indicated that it was beyond my capacity to do so until their ties were cut with eSerbia. They have not yet cut ties with eSerbia. So I have not begun any talks with them.
"Canada has sovereignty to cavort with whomever they want. But they cannot dictate our Foreign Policy. We will not engage in talks with them while they are in bed with our enemy, and expecting us to do otherwise is a big mistake on their part."
By Canada not allowing Murika to dictate Canadian foreign policy... we attempt to dictate Murika foreign policy? I guess that is because Murika's foreign policy is to dictate other countries' foreign policy. In that case, they can go piss up a rope. Simply put, nobody tells Canada what it must do and who it must be friends with - not Serbia, and certainly not Murika.
I will agree that a big mistake was made on our part - we expected Gnilraps to be a step up from his predecessor, to be reasonable and amenable to views that were not Wild Owl's delusional jingoist rhetoric. I hereby personally apologize to Gnilraps: I am sorry I expected you to be anything but a sock puppet.
Gnilraps' understanding of diplomacy.
Comrades, I tell you: this Serbia excuse is a smokescreen.
Murika went looking for a war they could win, and for resources they felt they could control in the long term. Canada, having been invaded and mostly conquered by their allies in Spain and Poland, was a ripe target. Our strength was tied up against the stronger enemies and we had regions they could take from us easily. It was an easy fight. But the attack had to be framed in a way that didn't make the Murikan government look like a pack of greedy bullies, so they jumped on our MPP with Serbia and our attack on eUK as their reasons for "dispensing Justice."
Those justifications sound perfectly reasonable. But it is a load of hot, steaming poppycock.
The attack on eUK was ill-advised on our part. Everyone knows this. They had just rejected our proposal of a training war, but we went in anyway to help our friends in France and Norway. A bad call on our part, but not one we should ever regret - our history with eUK has always been boisterous and combative, and it is never wrong to help a friend in need. The retaliation went above and beyond what was necessary, but we paid for our incaution. That debt is settled, with interest. Ask Spain.
It is likely as a result of this incaution that we were denied entry into Sirius. Some claim the Murikans blocked us from entry, some Murikans (who are famous for their revisionism) claim no such approach was ever made. In truth, it may have been a three-way coalition of eUK, eSpain and ePoland shutting us out. Regardless, having been denied entry to the one super-power alliance, we went to the other: Asteria. Chalking that up as an ultimate betrayal of a "Broliance" is ridiculous. I won't say that Asteria was Canada's "Plan B," because Asteria is a fine organization, and the Serbians are a proud and mighty people. But we had exactly two options, and the first option - teaming up with our bloody-minded next door neighbor - was denied.
In case it has failed to register in anyone's mind, Canada will not be cowed. We will take steps to ensure our own sovereignty and independence against any foe, regardless of our disparate size. Of course we are not going to sit around and twiddle our winkies and just hope that the rest of the world allows us to exist peacefully while we skip and frolic through flower-filled meadows. We took steps, as Murika did, to ensure that we would not be pathetic, mewling victims begging to be conquered (which Kemal Ergenekon assures us is a perfectly lovely situation for Cyprus). We are not going to be timid little lapdogs - we are going to bite the hand that strikes us, even though the striker is far bigger and stronger than we. It is pure arrogance to assume that we would simply shrug our shoulders, hope for the best and be meek and passive when our clear enemies were banding together in one big group. Calling it a "betrayal" is absurd, and Murika should be ashamed that their leaders would utter such poppycock.
It boggles my mind that I must use that word three times in one article, but there it is.
Murika now has a foothold in Europe, where they can confront their most hated of foes directly. There is a thin bridge of perhaps two regions separating their conquered regions in France from Serbia's conquered regions in the Mediterranean. Nothing is stopping Murika from closing that gap and confronting their most hated enemy directly. Instead, they would rather fight Serbia's "proxies," because they are cowards and only want to pick fights they are certain they can win. This is why they have decided to once again invade and wipe Japan, who have no alliance and are small and non-aggressive - Japan is tiny and cannot realistically fight back.
This is why they attacked Canada. Not because we allied with Serbia - obviously they do not hate Serbia enough to actually fight them directly - but because they thought they saw a fight they could easily win, and resources they could easily hold. And they did for a few days. But all of Wild Owl's chest-thumping bluster about a "perma-wipe" as a form of good old-fashioned Murikan justice for Canada's daring to side with their enemy is just a lot of smoke and misdirection.
Poor Murikans. The truth is, they are now scared of us. We have shown them that we will not be slaves, and that their visions of Manifest Destiny are a load of hot, steaming poppycock - yes, four times now. They now claim that they fear Serbia will wipe them using Canada as its proxy. Those two regions separating them from Serbia will never be conquered out of fear of sharing a border. They are terrified of an enemy that is bigger and stronger than they are.
Perhaps they should have asked us for some tips on how to deal with a situation like that.
Hail LETO! Hail Asteria! Hail Canada!
Comments
awesome bro!!
You had me at resident psyopaths.
Laughed at that one
Voted and subbed.
Do not be too harsh on Kemal... he is liseli 🙁
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Was a good victory for the country.
Definately a good read.
excellent
"Murika went looking for a war they could win, and for resources they felt they could control in the long term. Canada, having been invaded and mostly conquered by their allies in Spain and Poland, was a ripe target. Our strength was tied up against the stronger enemies and we had regions they could take from us easily. It was an easy fight. But the attack had to be framed in a way that didn't make the Murikan government look like a pack of greedy bullies, so they jumped on our MPP with Serbia and our attack on eUK as their reasons for "dispensing Justice.""
😁😁 All that needs to be said. Great article but tl;dr.
Apologies for the long read. This was essentially the core of the thing, but it would have been rude to state it bluntly without supporting arguments.
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Wow... what a wall of text (although I read every word!)
I think the problem with dem Yanks is that they thought our RL stereotype of meekness and passivity would filter through to this game. That was their fail.
Apologies for the length. I normally try to break it up with more pictures, but this one was meant to be somewhat more serious in tone.
Propaganda is fun, isn't it?
Voted, because lol, why not?
I feel inspired....
o7 Hail LETO, Hail Asteria, Hail Canada
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I agree that the propaganda regarding Canada was fundamentally flawed. Canada is reason enough in itself to invade, anything more is redundant.
Great Article! I played this game a long time back, and Mericans have ALWAYS stayed away from fighting anyone in their own weight class. They only pick on those that are smaller and then call it great triumphs! I saw an article not long back saying that America should be their alliances 10/10 country. Its funny though, since they are afraid of getting close to any big power, it would be quick work of them to get destroyed as they would be too frightened to fight
Serbia is America's number one enemy. I don't know how that translates to us never taking on a powerful country.
So go fight Serbia.
We've done it countless times and we'll do it again. "Mericans have ALWAYS stayed away from fighting anyone in their own weight class."
I'm starting to think America ISN'T the stupid country.
This is an outright lie. Based off your join date you were around for the three pillars campaign and many more where the United States took the fight directly to enemies that were numerically superior to it.
Great article. V&S.
A couple of thoughts reading this.
"No other country is run by such a broken pack of drooling cretins." Nailed it.
When I was in the eUSA helping them fight against the PTO threat from the Serbian-led American Freedom Alliance, I dismissed RGR's fantasy claim of him fighting the "elitist" eUS power brokers. While I still think RGR is a nutjob, he was partially right: its the same people over & over again, never doing anything new and engaging in groupthink that often runs counter to what the people want. Witness the CTRL fiasco. The government declares war on eCanada & the people won't fight. I actually had high hope for Gnilraps. Had I still been in the eUSA, I'd have voted for him. Sadly, we came to this stage.
I'd rather fight shoulder to shoulder with the eUSA then hand to throat against it, but "leadership" has to see the value of that relationship and currently what passes for leadership doesn't. Makes me wish I could vote for RGR just to make a point. Well, maybe not that far...
To those who claim the eUSA won't attack anyone but countries they are sure to beat, I would respond isn't that always the way? Big countries rarely attack equals, and eSerbia is more than equal to eUSA (as is ePoland, based on the ease they were able to take and hold eUSA back in December). ePoland beats on its small neighbors, eSpain does likewise, eSerbia, as well. For a long while eUSA couldn't bully neighbors with eMexico & eCanada being friendly. Now it has a great opportunity to vilify eCan & attack, all the while proclaiming a bromance with eMexico. Watch your back eMexico. As soon as the eUSA wants something, they'll trump up some excuse & invade the "taco-eaters".
Your comment reveals your ignorance of eAmerican politics.
On the contrary, the 2+ years I spent in the eUSA gives me plenty of insight into how it runs, including how the AFA runs.
agree to disagree I suppose
Well, perhaps I was a little hard on the AFA. After all, they are not completely wrong. There is a cadre of players that run the eUSA like its their own playground.
Baja is Mexico. It's also one of eUSA's most exploitable Achilles Heels, because they won't give up that precious saltpeter bonus. Perhaps they are "renting" it, but it amounts to an occupation.
Murikans, it's Kanata if you want to start Canada with a K.
What I found funny was that they screamed "Perma Occupy" and then when Spain wanted to leave and tend to the issues in Europe, they wanted and demanded surrender and that the war end asap when territories being held for them to keep. That there tells me that they probably could not maintain a perma occupy nor a long term war.
The Socialist Freedom Party and its military unit (Bear Cavalry) support freedom.
We will defend each and every state's right to self-governance.
yuk
Indeed.
Good read, there are some valid points made.
A very well done piece of propaganda, I can only hope you don't actually believe what you are writing.
It saddens me that you Americans do not.
lol
Tl;dr
DGAF
Great article. Some of your points are even valid in RL.
Great article!
'We have shown them that we will not be slaves'
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Vote, sub and applauds. Hat off too.