Pasta Sentient said We thank the Netherlands for officially confirming their actions in North America.
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The Foreign Office of the Kingdom of the Netherlands,
It has thus far in this conflict been a habit of Prime Minister Albert Edward of the British Republic to forgo facts in the interest of much more interesting falsehoods. What precisely has forced Albert Edward to resort to these childish lies is a matter of conjecture, but it can be assumed that the Prime Minister's insistence on intervention in the war on the European continent was not popular with the British people, only so recently removed from a violent Marxist revolt. It is not unreasonable to make the estimation, then, that London's voice rising once again to discuss matters across the Atlantic is not truly a speech to the European powers, but the British people themselves. Albert is fashioning himself a distraction, and is willing to sew whatever lies are necessary to create such a distraction.
The Foreign Office of the Kingdom of the Netherlands would like to correct the British Republic's statements pertaining to Dutch relations with the United States of America. The truth can be summarized as thus: no discussion of any kind has occurred between the Dutch and the Americans, least of all one pertaining to American intervention in Canada. The United States' government and citizens should be concerned about the civil unrest in the south-east of their country more so than a war in Europe, and both the King and elected officials of the Netherlands suspect that immediately after the importance of domestic affairs to the American people comes the importance of the country's frontiers. Frontiers such as the border with Mexico, which the British Republic has recently confessed to militarising.
The stance of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on all matters pertaining to the United States is one of either total neutrality or support proportional to that between any two friendly sovereign nations. Let the world not forget that the Netherlands was the voice of reason, insisting upon European non-intervention in the American Civil War, when Paris and London were sending their men off to die in New York. Praise be to God that both countries, France and Britain, regained their sanity before such an invasion took place. It is the utmost hope of the Kingdom of the Netherlands that Victoria's successor does not prove as insane as the woman herself; unfortunately, Albert Edward's recent statements do not lean any great amount of credence to that hope.
Pasta Sentient said
The United Republic of Great Britain applauds the soldiers of Austria and France for the blows that they have deflected so greatly. They have lost numbers in the thousands, but for every Austrian or Frenchmen dead...they have slain twice as many!
Remove the emboldened bits. France has fought exactly one battle so far: a small skirmish with the Prussians. They lost 1,100 to the Prussian losses of 670. The war has barely begun, it isn't time for congratulations quite yet.
solamelike said
So what your saying is.I shouldn't sit back and (as nexerus put it) "leisurely" let you have Belgium.
...Provided you're trying to emulate Napoleon? Absolutely.
solamelike said
But I feel there was a reason France annexed Belgium in the first place.
The same reason they annexed the Rhineland, and everywhere else that bordered them for that matter. Napoleon was Napoleon.
Pepperm1nts said I mean, how do you sit through Belgium being taken over?
Leisurely. Belgium belonged to the Netherlands for longer than it has been independent thus far. William III, King of the Netherlands, was born in what became 'Belgium'.
That last post was a sarcastic exit from the conversation. I don't care about the alliance enough to continue arguing about it, being that it's not my country that's being invaded by it. I will, however, make sure to use the alliance as a benchmark should I make any questionably realistic decisions in the future and need a precedent to maintain them.
You're right. China and Japan have always been warm neighbours and loving allies. It's completely feasible, even likely, for Japan to forge a military alliance with China in the 1860's. My concerns have been blown out of proportion; after all, it's not as if the alliance will affect the game in any major way in the first place.
Heyitsjiwon said
Even if it didn't signify warming relations. I don't see how you could possibly make that claim. Not having warm relations does not mean that they dislike each other. Also, sure. They were traditional enemies, but then there was the two century long period of isolation. Plus, the events during that time helped the Qing assume power as well. So once again, I don't see how you can claim that the relation between the two were cold during this time especially with the concept of to yo rentai ron (East Asian Alliance) was prevalent among the Japanese statesmen in this time period.
The isolation wouldn't have absolved negative feelings. When the Japanese emerged from isolation and reanalyzed their place on the world stage, they wouldn't have started by discarding everything they'd learned about the world and their neighbours before isolation.
Hopefully Japan's new status as co-belligerents of the anti-nationalists won't harm their special historical relationship with the Dutch. I was excited for there to be a player taking over Japan.
Looks like I'm an hour late.
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