[quote=So Boerd]
All I know is, someone doesn't get 600+ PMs in an NRP without doing some serious plotting.
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You got me, everything has been a sophisticated ploy. I have been focusing on trade and the education of the world all as an elaborate ruse. 
Despite receiving land in Canada and having land in Africa, India and south America. The idea all along was to fight against the best army in the world, to fight against the German confederation.
Signing Constantinople? Just a way to let me sneak attack you! 
When I Pm'd you saying about how deeply I didn't want war? Another way to hopefully get passed your defences!
But no you are far to paranoid, it seems none of these have worked and I must rethink my dastardly plan to take on the fifth biggest army in the world...