Rhaza wrote:PRAF "involvement" never ceased. PRAF actively piling the region did, but that was not because it was not a TCB-backed possession. By Mlakhavia's own admission, there were two principle reasons,
- To allow the PRAF to more consistently engage in its external agenda, i.e. invasions.
- To maintain optics that the region was not exclusively or near-exclusively backed by TCB.
Emphasis (bolded + italic) mine. That is a fascinating and definitely uncharitable way to interpret Mlakhavia's statement.
Your statement makes it seem as if TCB/PRAF were actually secretly pulling the strings of the whole Solidarity project, but pulled out to deceive the rest of NS into believing that it was other NSLeft regions who were primarily running the project. You don't explicitly say this, but your word choice here does strongly imply it - at least, that's what it seems to me.
Of course, any NSLeft resident, especially those who were there when the Solidarity project was first being drafted and designed, would tell you that's a load of bull. I should know, as I was there (since I'm a resident of a couple NSLeft regions). Solidarity was fundamentally a collective project, with input from all NSLeft regions, and especially substantial input from NSLeft regions not named "the Communist Bloc." Solidarity's former delegate - the one you and your "defender" coalition forces want to kick out? They're a long-standing resident of TLA, and one of the primary contributors to the Solidarity project. Your attempt to spin a narrative about a frontier run by an alliance of regions that you frankly don't understand is not going to convince any NSLeft resident of the righteousness of the modern defender establishment.
And I do want to emphasize this - you do not understand NSLeft. You were not there when we drafted up the plans for Solidarity; you were not there through all the discussions that would shape how Solidarity would start and how it would grow. Your only information on how Solidarity was founded and how it was run was external statements from NSLeft residents, all of which you interpreted in the context of your defender-aligned anti-TCB biases. Facts about the Solidarity project become lies and deceptions; independent NSLeft regions with their own cultures and their own populations become puppets and/or criminal accomplices of TCB. TCB is portrayed as a the powerful evil region that forged the foundation of Solidarity in its evil lair and laughed maniacally as it was built while somehow managing to deceive every single other NSLeft region into supporting it.
Remember, kids, if you come to school and realize that you forgot your homework, you can always tell your professor that PRAF raided your backpack.
And that's why your repeated assertion that the raid of Solidarity is meant to be an attack solely on TCB/PRAF rather than NSLeft as a whole fell completely flat. Like, what did you expect? Did you think that NSLeft regions and residents would look at the attack on Solidarity and think to themselves "damn that sucks but hey it's only an attack on TCB and definitely not a wider attack on NSLeft." No, of course not. When the average NSLeft resident found that the frontier jointly run by all NSLeft regions was raided, the first thought of many of them was "NSLeft is being attacked." Your arguments to the contrary are fundamentally not convincing because they're based on the false premise that Solidarity was primarily a project of TCB, merely a "TCB colony" that other NSLeft regions did not have to worry about as, according to your bullshit arguments, they supposedly did not contribute that much to it. To the NSLeft alliance, and especially NSLeftists not in TCB who contributed significantly to Solidarity, the arguments coming from you and other defenders sound absolutely ridiculous and out-of-touch with reality. Because they are. And even putting all that aside, your claim that the raid is meant to target PRAF was undermined by the fact that your raid on Solidarity brought more people into the Solidarity Squadron than Solidarity ever could have, and NSLeft is both much more united, and has a far more negative opinion of the defender establishment, than before.
Of course, convincing NSLeft regions of that lie is not what you or other defender leaders are trying to do, given your repeated mean-spirited potshots at NSLeft regions such as TLA and SLU. You're agendaposting, so you can disregard the facts. You're producing crappy arguments that rank-and-file defenders can throw at those skeptical of contemporary defenderdom and can use to feel good about themselves piling in Solidarity.
Rhaza wrote:I suspect the decision to cease active piling between other operations was highly dependent on the false notion that the region was protected by PPO, or fairy dust, or whatever else led PRAF leadership to conclude that we didn't have the guts to knock the door down.
We were under the presumption that defenderdom wouldn't attack Solidarity because Solidarity is jointly run by of all of NSLeft, not just TCB. Whatever gripes defenderdom had with TCB/PRAF, we thought, surely defenderdom would not collectively punish the rest of NSLeft, right? Surely defenderdom would not attack all of NSLeft as a group for the alleged sins of the only member region remotely engaged with NSGP, right?
...right?
