Slaver Pirates of Vaas wrote:So we have all this arguing about a simple suspicious action in the IC forum?
I would side with Sarderia in this argument, but it should be noted that the only reason this argument happened in the first place was when Sarderia decided to interact with SA right after plans to invade were set in stone. This prompts a reasonable suspicion of metagame (the act of using OOC information or secret IC information to your advantage). It's hard for these two things to occur adjacent to one another and it not be a coincidence, unless there was already RP posts attempting to establish relations. Of course, all suspicion could be removed if Sarderia is able to prove from a realistic standpoint that he found out IC-ly a plot to invade SA. Perhaps a CIA operative could have caught on to Scandinavia planning an invasion. But then again, no one likes it when secret IC information is used against them by another nation without any sort of preparation or process done to get that information. When attempting to portray espionage in an RP, it's best to do it like how Germany did it with Polaria: actually following the footsteps and the process of Germany's agents infiltrating Polaria's government and how it proceeded to get the information Polaria keeps secret.
The meeting regarding the invasion of Saudi Arabia took place in a locked room in the Foreign Ministry in Paris. The only two people in the room where French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, and the Scandinavian diplomat, Lucas Frisk. Unless the USA abducted Frisk as he left (not likely since the rude police officer from the scene is still out there and would have seen it transpire), or has a mole in the Scandinavian and/or French governments, they wouldn't know about the plan at all.