MU Corporations denounce Rodarian ADIZ, military patrols increase
Several Tippercommoner Corporations have announced that the Rodarian ADIZ is illegitimate and that commercial trade will resume with military escort.
by Sandra Harding (MP)
10 February 2014 9:34 AM | Sussex, Meritocratic Union of Tippercommon
A modernized Tippercommon F-14F Tomcat aboard the TNV Ardent Wrath, 2013.
Photo courtesy of Tippercommon Marine Corps Air Services.
Oakford Naval Base, TIPPERCOMMON (MP) — A combined coalition of the Sussex Group Board of Directors, the Meritocracy Defense Export Association, and Kent & Harding Cargolifters has announced today that after a brief halt of trade to Itailia through the Sea of Orlessia due to the propagation of the new Rodarian Air Defence Identification Zone, the flow of merchant vessels and cargo aircraft will resume. Harold Hathaway, Minister of Defense, announced hours later that all Tippercommoner cargo aircraft travelling through the ADIZ must be accompanied by a naval fighter escort.
Immediately after the ADIZ was established early last month, the Meritocracy has not recognized its legitimacy, although a formal press conference regarding the matter had never been held until today. However, the Assembly and Senate Chamber passed a resolution two days after the creation of ADIZ prohibiting private vessels and aircraft from entering its airspace, hoping to minimize any confrontation while the consequences were analyzed. When this resolution expired on the 7th of February, the major corporate bodies which do business with Itailia, Orlessia, Erucia, and Emmeria acted, announcing that the ADIZ is unjust and overreaching. Included on the list of corporations which will resume trade through the ADIZ are the Sussex Group Conglomerate, the Meritocracy Defense Export Association, Kent & Harding Cargolifters, the Meritocracy Agriculture Export Association, and several oiling companies.
In tandem with this announcement, the Board of Defense announced that under Executive Resolution BD-920 that all private aircraft flying through the ADIZ are to be accompanied by military escort. In addition, according to an anonymous source from the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Meritocracy Naval Department has intentionally shifted several fighter patrol and reconnaissance routes from around Orlessia and the Central Ocean into the ADIZ. Reports from our military correspondents at the Oakford Naval Base have reported that the Fifth Fleet which is headed by the aircraft carriers TNV Ardent Wrath, TNV Resolution, and TNV Integrity have left dock with a full combat load, steaming north towards Itailia to enforce the policy of military escorts and to extend the standard Tippercommon patrol routes into the ADIZ.
When questioned about the possible cronyism regarding exports specifically to CDI member states and the unnecessary confrontation that may result from this new policy, Minister of Commerce Matthew Bateman had this to say: "The Meritocratic Union is a very commercial nation. Our military was formed 80 years ago specifically to aid in strengthening commercial ties with our neighbors. As far as I am concerned, this is another case of that very policy. The Board of Commerce and the Board of Defense see no problem with increasing our military presence in international waters by which the Rodarion government has somehow claimed jurisdiction."
Elliot Hamilton, de facto political head of the Libertarian Society Party in the National Assembly, denounced BD-920, stating that it was a, "needless show of aggression" and a "power play by the Parliamentarian majority."
Over the past few years, the Libertarian Society Party has been on the rise during elections, beating out the Democratic Socialists in the 2012 election has the new primary opposition party to the Parliamentarians. They have been riding on a ticket of downgrading the Tippercommon military and reducing Tippercommon's involvement with foreign affairs, commercially and politically. In the past, they have not been able to attain the majority in any provincial assembly, a good portion of the public seeing them as isolationists who seek to take a step back at the height of the nation's success. However, with the threat of retaliation from the Rodarian government in response to the Tippercommon government's actions, with this be true for the 2016 elections? Time will tell.