Come Hell or High Water: Aug 2013

 
 
 
 
 
"Regions that maintain an Ingame Embassy with The West Pacific and engage in Mass Recruitment Telegram campaigns that are not limited to new nations in TWP, will have their Embassy immediately closed in formal protest. Further actions may be taken by the TWP Government as may be found to be appropriate to the situation.
 
The Government of The West Pacific will be discussing further policies regarding this issue.
- All Good People, Delegate of The West Pacific
 
Following the recent coup of Osiris, the West Pacific had some difficult decisions to make concerning our relationship with our then ally, Gatesville. Gatesville has, for a long time, been a close ally of the West Pacific and the decision to terminate relations with them was not an easy decision by Delegate AGP and the Guardians. Unfortunately, the West Pacific felt let down on a number of key issues concerning Gatesville; firstly, Gatesville's decision to associate themselves with known COPS violators, namely the Aezean Combine, is unforgivable to regions that uphold COPS; secondly, the West Pacific learned that members of the Gatesville High Council misrepresented a number of issues during treaty negotiations.
 
On COPS, the West Pacific considers the COPS treaty inviolable and considers the association of Gatesville and the Aezean Combine to be an affront to the civilised regions of NationStates. The COPS treaty was created in order to show respect to the off-site property of all regions in NationStates and the West Pacific finds any region in violation or any region to be associated with those in violation of the treaty unworthy of holding relations with the West Pacific as they do not recognise such basic rights as maintaining an offsite forum. TWP Delegate All Good People has stated that there will be no hope of further TWP-Gatesville relations should Gatesville continue to work with known COPS violators.
 
On misrepresentation, treaties are a sign of mutual respect and trust between regions and this trust was betrayed by Gatesville. The West Pacific is concerned that a region that would consider itself our ally would seek to manipulate us in an attempt to damage one of our fellow Game-Created regions. It had been revealed that this misrepresentation extended to issues concerning the now defunct Sovereign Confederation, security threats towards the West Pacific, claims of control over The West Pacific and others. It also became increasingly clear that the actions taken by Gatesville are, in fact, a personal vendetta. The West Pacific could not recognise nor endorse personal vendettas as an acceptable way to play the game.
 
All of these insults towards the West Pacific added up and it became clear that treated relations with Gatesville were unpalatable. The Alco-Choco-Klingon Treaty was severed on the 17th July 2013.
 

 


 
The following regions have opened embassies with the West Pacific since June:

• House of Five Leaves
• New Communist Region
• Mazeria
• NationStates
• The Allied Republics
• The Union of Democratic Left States
• Osiris

The West Pacific looks forward to working with our new friends.
 

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Same thing happens to me, Punk D. :/

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It's great to hear from TWP

mcmasterdonia:

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It's great to hear from TWP

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It is good to hear from TWP! Shame to hear about the breakdown in relations with Gatesville Inc.

Yes indeed. Trust me, if you all knew the machinations we took to ensure relations remained you'd be surprised it took us so long to make the decision we ultimately made.

TWP has been a traditional GV ally for a long time, most TWP'ers were members of GV in the past or had very good relations with them. And still we dissolved the treaty. Sometimes when friends go left, you have to respectfully say "yeah, I'm going right you idiot".

Keyword: respectfully