Your Reaction to AN's News (III)

[Nacrad]

A Continuation of the original thread with the same name. Please keep in mind that your reaction can be IC or OOC. It needs not saying that if you don't have any news in any form or shape, please refrain from posting here.

"A communist is more an infidel than an American."
- Some Islamist politician

> CresCom sends reinforcements to lift siege of Baghdad.

*Obnoxiously eating popcorn*
"This... This is basically expected of the Middle East. Although I'd like to know, what stupid reason are they using to fight each other this time?"

Chris Wong, Citizen

[Grootfries Rijk]

"No clue why Santo Domingos has a President, but I suppose assassination isn't... odd. Sure, it's a lot rarer now compared to a few centuries ago -which would suggest that it would continue to dwindle in regularity as time went by but it's nothing so out of ordinary; one runs the risk of angering the wrong crowd when they're the head of a state. Any clues on who's responsible?"

Oswald of Lewhook, Duke Roesfeld, Merchant and nobleman in Frisia

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[Crescent Commonwealth]

"Trusting the British Empire in any treaty is a mistake."
- A Palestinian Historian

[Grootfries Rijk]

/bump

[Greater Cosmicium]

Islamic Republic of Iraq retreats from Baghdad.

"Wait... Iraq is retreating from Iraqi territory? How does this even work?" - A Cosmician Press Agency journalist

"There's TWO Iraqs in their universe..." - Another Cosmician Press Agency journalist

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[Nacrad]

"They're rebelling. What were they expecting, government forces just to let them be? This is hardly news."

Chris Wong, Citizen

[Caribbean Confederation]

"The only thing even more disconcerting than the existence of a partitioned Germany is the fact one portion of it is opposed to Trans-Atlantic cooperation. Then again, if Russia is communist, anything is possible."

Frederick Hemsworth, News Correspondant

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[Perikuresu]

"We declare all states in Africa to be in violation of our demands, anyways let's put our troops in Africa"
~Comedian mocking them

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Perikuresu has somehow gained one more colony abroad, being the former nation of Brasillistan, which stemmed from sanctions from Perikuresu crippling the nation in response to the nation kidnapping our citizens to work in terrible conditions in their diamond mines

[Grootfries Rijk]

/bump

[Nacrad]

"What do you mean, 'somehow'? If you gained a colony, you most likely wanted to have it - in this case probably to protect your citizens."

Maj. Gen. Thomas Chan, Commander of Armed Forces of Nacrad Overseas (Cyrenaica)

[Allied Iran]

"If your Afghanistan is anything resembling our own, it is not going to keep back any sort of rebel group for long. Then again, 'Communist Afghanistan' suggests there being even footing between the two which... only hurts Kabul's prospects even further."

Navid Ebrahimi, Student in Tehran

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[Free Ravensburg]

…obliges the government to classify any and all Arab presence outside of the Arabian Peninsula as 'settler, genocidal and colonialist'

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What the fuq

[Free Ravensburg]

/bup

[Terra Britania]

idk wtf lmao idgaf

...Pisses on Moon after Rodent Pisses on Wife

...
What the fuq

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"Indeed, the Saracen^[1] does not belong outside his sandy little shithole in Arabia, that much I can see. But what would the Persish regering^[2] do about this? March through the Great Africanish Waeste^[3] and shoot every Saracen and his mother?"
- Egwine Mathilde of Lancashire, Heretogine of Lancashire

[1] Arab
[2] Persian/Iranian government
[3] Sahara Desert

[Grootfries Rijk]

/bump (BN, please respond to Terra Britania)

[Perikuresu]

Three arrested in Edinburgh and five sent to the hospital over a drunken brawl?
Isn't that everyday in Edinburgh?
~Perikuresuan citizen

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There are proposals to make laws making Compulsory Organ Harvesting legal in Perikuresu again, which allows the state to harvest the organs of the deceased.

[Nori Region]

Three arrested in Edinburgh and five sent to the hospital over a drunken brawl?
Isn't that everyday in Edinburgh?
~Perikuresuan citizen

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There are proposals to make laws making Compulsory Organ Harvesting legal in Perikuresu again, which allows the state to harvest the organs of the deceased.

"It's a little primitive, considering cybernetics can replace nearly all organs. I'm guessing you don't have that, though. Compulsory might be a bit much, I'd probably look at ways to incentivize people to voluntarily agree. But if this is what you need to do to have working healthcare, I do ultimately support it; healthcare is a right."
- Orange

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Major road blocked by child challenging all passersby to pokemon battles and defeating them. Police think "it's probably some kind of protest" and state that "while it is very disruptive, it technically isn't against any laws that are on the books."

[Grootfries Rijk]

"The child is lucky some asshole riding a chariot -or worse, someone in a wagon- didn't just not see him and run him over. What in god's name is a Pokemon battle anyway, a personal duel of some sort?"

Oswald of Lewhook, Duke Roesfeld, Merchant and nobleman in Frisia

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[Nacrad]

"Aren't Ha Long and Nagasaki some 5000 km apart? Does that mean that Frisland is engaged in war with both Vietnam and Japan at the same time? I wonder why they did that. If I remember correctly, they had few interests in the area at that time."

Chris Wong, Citizen

[Grootfries Rijk]

"Aren't Ha Long and Nagasaki some 5000 km apart? Does that mean that Frisland is engaged in war with both Vietnam and Japan at the same time? I wonder why they did that. If I remember correctly, they had few interests in the area at that time."

Chris Wong, Citizen

(Both Nagasaki and Ha Long are held by the Portuguese East India Company, the Frisian EIC took it from them.) /skip

[Terra Britania]

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"More men needed for the fleshgrinder, it seems? From what I've seen, Nacrad's troops have been rather overstretched as of late, dealing with Burma this and Africa that. If you think another regiment or two's worth would answer this... well, good luck."
- Egwine Mathilde of Lancashire, Heretogine of Lancashire

[Perikuresu]

Did you have to be that cold towards the deceased?
~Perikuresuan Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Plans on a construction of an amusement park themed after a Frisian city has started, apparently it is planned to be in Southern New Friesland-Arohanui

[The National Soviet Order-State]

“Amusement parks are utterly useless and a complete waste of productivity. All those materials allocated to the construction of such filth could be used to build factories that actually contribute to national output, rather than building a park that creates unproductive joyful children *shudders*. But alas, I cannot do anything about the degeneration of such societies.”
-Random factory overseer in Labor Conglomerate-887(Norilsk industrial complex)

LATEST NEWS FROM THE FRONTLINE

European Theatre:

• Mechanized National Soviet infantry division swiftly pushes into the city of Nancy, cutting off entire north french enemy frontline
• Military offensive to liberate Tirana from the west repelled by enemy forces, the soldiers who have retreated are to be executed for treason

Asian Theatre:

• Defense of Vladvistok successful - 60,000 asian soldiers cut off at Artyom by reinforcements
• North Manchuria offensive showing significant progress, 40,000 enemy troops killed and another 75,000 captured and shipped to uranium mines

[Grootfries Rijk]

"Executing retreating soldiers? That's complete lunacy -that's simply not how war works. Sometimes you have to fall back to make a better stand, sometimes you need to defend in depth, sometimes you simply can't hold the line, any general who's even spent a day on the field knows this. Why, with that logic you might as well not prosecute war at all."

Lodewijk of Leithon, Duke Stuyvesand, Steward of Frisia

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[Nacrad]

"Ah yes, the Holy Roman Empire - three lies in the price of one, neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. Nevertheless, let's hope that it just fizzles out in your time line, if only so that future students don't have to recite more stuff."

Chris Wong, Citizen