Republica Post
Consul Nicholls and Consul Bolton Must Call on the Lunian League to Crush the Rebellion
by: Sue Reynolds
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past year, you are undoubtedly aware that 32 Republics controlled by Progressives have chosen to secede from the Federation and inaugurate civil war. Apparently, these Progressives must have looked at the opinion polls that showed their party collapsing into irrelevance after one of them ran over 5 peaceful counter-protesters at the "Unite the Left" rally in Goldberg, Nejax, including Jurgen Eberhardt, the ace of the University of Nejax baseball team. While there was no loss of life on this day, all 5 were severely injured. This set off a national wave of left-wing domestic terrorism. When the Consuls signed the Stop Aggressive Violent Extremism (SAVE) Act, granting the Federation Investigation Bureau extraordinary counter-terrorism powers to stop the violence and protect public safety, 32 Republics immediately announced their intention to leave the Federation. At first, the Consuls were willing to let them go their separate ways but after the so-called "Confederacy of Leftist Republics" (CLR) began sponsoring a campaign of terror against the Free Republics, they were left with no choice but to treat this as an illegal insurrection rather than a lawful secession.
Now that those of you who've been living under a rock are aware of the backstory, let's move on to the real question at hand. The current counter-Rebellion strategy simply isn't working. The Republican armed forces have simply proven overmatched against a rebellion that has clearly been in the planning stages for a long time. Our military is poorly trained and ill-equipped. General Florismart Jette is doing his best with the hand he has been dealt but the reality is that our armed forces were severely weakened under the incompetent rule of Consul Kulseth and Consul O'Reilly, both of whom were responsible for driving our best men out of the armed forces and for making changes to how our soldiers are trained that have crippled our armed forces. This much has become apparent over the past few months but it should have been apparent years ago when the military under Kulseth the Mad actually managed to lose a war we should have won easily.
And if you think the Republican Army is in bad shape, well Republica's Navy is in even worse shape. After years of being used as Rule Theriault's personal bodyguards, allowing the soccer coach and his team to break foreign laws with impunity, the Navy is totally unprepared to fight any actual war. The most striking evidence of this lies in the fact that the Rebellion has sunk 47 Republica's Navy ships in the past 3 months while Republica's Navy has failed to sink even a single rebel vessel. The Air Force isn't exactly doing any better. When their planes aren't colliding with each other in mid-air, they are hitting trees and being shot straight out of the sky by rebel fighter pilots. We aren't simply failing to make progress toward victory in this civil war. We are losing the war. Our brave men and women in uniform are being slaughtered on a daily basis.
If we want to win the war, there is only one solution. We must immediately call upon our Lunian League allies to assist us in crushing the rebellion. In addition, we must temporarily place our armed forces under Lunian League command and we must secure the assistance of the Nordernian military in retraining our troops in proper military tactics. Otherwise, we will lose our freedom and we will be enslaved by the collectivist rebels.
Sue Reynolds is a former Assembly aide. After her boss lost his seat during the year that Consul Piazza was elected, she decided to seek out a new career as an opinion columnist. After working for a local paper in a small town in Malifornia for a few years, she was discovered by the Republica Post and hired to write a nationally syndicated opinion column.
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