Misley wrote:Onderkelkia wrote:Given Eastern Europe forged ties with an FRA region but formed no such ties with any Independent or Imperialist region, their relations were unbalanced towards the enemies of the LKE, TNI and Albion. This makes it entirely reasonable for the UIAF to select them from within the range of potential targets.
This isn't true. EE maintained embassies with United Sovereign Socialist Republics and The International Communist Union, both leftist Antifa member regions that are squarely in what the wider gameplay community would call the "Independent" sphere.
You refer to two founderless regions, one with 10 nations and the other with 29 nations (the latter being without any Independent tag).
Outside noting them as members of the leftist group of regions, one doubts that the "wider gameplay community" would recognise these two regions as constituting anything at all, let alone distinguish them as falling "squarely within" the Independent sphere, namely regions which practise the principles of Independence announced collectively by Europeia, LKE, TNI, Albion, TNP, TWP, Balder, Osiris, Equilism and Ainur in The Independent Manifesto.
The idea that the regions you cite are bastions of the Independent sphere is fanciful.