Cerian Quilor wrote:Lovely convenient little mental construct for you, the idea of "true allies". Really makes it easy for you.
Well, let's see:
TNI told us if we allied with defenders, and didn't raid more than we defended, they would have a big problem with it. Not a position worth respecting. We allied with TRR & Lazarus, so that alliance died. Good riddance-- Onder disrespected Geomania when he ran our military, and treated TSP as a junior partner in the alliance. It wasn't just me that felt that way. TSP has been better off without that ball and chain holding us down.
Balder is basically controlled by former UIAF imperialists, so that relationship was hostile the moment I was elected. It was an inactive alliance since its ratification, so whatever, I mostly just put it on the back burner. Should've been dissolved a long time ago. Rach then supported Hileville's coup, which only solidified the fact that Balder wasn't a real ally. She's still supporting it, repeating the lies Hileville & Imki used to justify their powergrab. That's the behavior of a real ally?
Euro, though few in TSP like to admit it, schemed to undermine our alliances with TRR & Lazarus with the asinine behavior over the Independence Conference and the Regional Sovereignty Conference. It was tacitly admitted by Euro at the time that this scheme was being pushed by their imperialist allies. Euro threatened TSP that they "[wouldn't] be held responsible for the actions of some of [their] allies" if TSP didn't snub our other alliances and disavow the Regional Sovereignty Conference.
Those aren't real alliances. Those are region that were hostile against a TSP that wasn't firmly in the Independent-imperialist sphere. Regions that sought to undermine TSP's foreign affairs at every available opportunity. There's a reason I didn't respect them, and it's because they didn't respect TSP. They only liked TSP when its FA was controlled by Belschaft, and any attempt to separate ourselves from the Independent-imperialist sphere led that trifecta of "allies" to behave more like enemies.
This is all ancient history. It's been re-litigated for the past 3 years. Can't we just admit by now that an "independent" TSP was never a thing, and the Independent-imperialist bloc is simply anti-defender? All of this is pretty easy to understand once you realize that. A defender-leaning TSP just won't be on good terms with the opposing sphere of Gameplay.