[center]
[img=http://www.germaniainternational.com/images/newpg4opener.gif]
I must applaud the men who fought and died as they marched to prague, a campagin which effectivly broke the moral of the Austrians and secured us our current victory. As I look over the long lists of casualities I cannot help but shed a tear as i look at the sheer amount of young men french, german and Russians alike who valiantly fought for their countries and have paid the ultimate price for it. I thank the Austrians and the French at their wise descsion to cease this bloody war and spare the lives of the people on both sides for wars may be planed by royalty and nobles but it is in the end fought by the common man.Yet I fear several times more shall see the same fate as these brave men for the crazed Albert and the warmongering Sultan continue this damnable conflict as they send their people off to a war which they do not support nor wish to continue but yet they still send the bodies of butchered sons and fathers back to their famlies with nothing more but a pension and a letter the value of which is minisculic compared to the value of their lives. I implore Albert and the Sultan to cease this crazed war and spare the lives of hundred of good men who wish nothing more than to return home to their families once more.
 But alas while we have achieved victory this day yet more enemies stand at our walls. the chinese and the japanese have refuse our offerings of peace and prosperity between our nations and it decides war is the only option. So they assault our towns and harass our towns in hopes of striking a blow to us. these actions do not surprise me as the asians have long thirsted for the lands and gold which our grand empire holds. They believe that by attacking us while we are already facing the horrors of a war in the west they might gain victory in the east. Well I ask them would one walk into the cave of a bear when they know full well he inside is awake and ready for the intrusion? of course not and as such they have dared to reckon with the Grand Russian Bear and as such they shall see the fruits of their folly.The Grand armies of Rus shall crush their primitive and inexperianced armies as one would swat at a fly.
-Tsar Alexander II, Autocrat of all the Russias, King of Poland, Grand Prince of Finland in a article from the Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti
[/center]