Capto Iugulum: 1920 - 1939

EQ, it seems like I sent you an art piece while you were working on this update. Check your PM.

Excellent update EQ!

What are the cities to vote on for the next olympics?

THE INDIAN CIVIL WAR. Bombay, India. The war between the Federalists and Regionalists in India has taken a new turn this year, as the attention of the fighting has been fixated on the Regionalist drive upon Bombay. Led by well-trained forces from Kalinga, the Regionalists have focused their efforts on depriving the Federalists of the center of their political and economic power. The Federalists in turn threw everything they had into the desperate defense of the city, and slowed the advance to a crawl, despite some territorial losses in the north as they stripped that area’s defenses to win the fight in the south. The tide truly began to shift in the summer, as the Indians received new aid from Russia, including the feared T-20 tank and numerous older aircraft. With these new weapons in tow, the Federalists managed to overwhelm Kalingese air power, and throw back the advancing forces. Behind their armored shield, the Federalists pushed the Regionalists back on both fronts, reclaiming some lost ground, but at heavy costs. The fighting continued throughout the year, with the Regionalists on the defensive, though eventually, as casualties mounted, the Federalists were slowed and stopped by mid-November.
Casualty Lists
India (Federalist): 77 Conscript Brigades, 12 Infantry Brigades, 1 T-20 Armored Brigade, 4 Artillery Brigades, 1 RM-24 Fighter Squadron (+1 Army Quality, +1 Air Force Quality)
India (Regionalist): 80 Conscript Brigades, 10 Infantry Brigades, 2 Cavalry Brigades, 2 Artillery Brigades (+1 Army Quality)
Kalinga: 18 Conscript Brigades, 6 Infantry Brigades, 3 Cavalry Brigades, 7 Artillery Brigades, 1 Sim27 Fighter Squadron (+1 Army Quality, +1 Air Force Quality)

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OOC: Good things can't last forever I s'pose. Better step up my game.

Violently.

Bourgogne est plus intéressant.

Heading reconstruction will be nice.

EDIT: Prior claim to Paris redacted, Burgundy is more interesting.

From: Workers' Commonwealth
To: International Community
CC: Tyrant of Moscow, Denmark
We are greatly displeased to note that the so-called Norwegian nationalists who have attacked the lawful and peaceful facilities and employees of the Revolutionary Government are mentally-handicapped and disturbed asylum residents, who were doubtlessly aided and abetted in their cause to create mischief and bloodshed by Russian and Danish agents. We further note that these attacks have caused untold numbers of deaths, as well as debilitating and disfiguring injuries to their survivors. As we have previously condemned Russo-Danish attempts to disrupt the peace and prosperity, as well as the sovereignty, of our nation, we do not expect either Denmark or Russia to compensate us for these grievous wrongs or indeed to cease their attempts to destroy our way of life. We shall endeavor, with all the resources at our disposal, to ensure that no further such incidents shall ever occur. Any persons, whether they be citizens of the Revolutionary State or foreign nationals, who disrupt our efforts to ensure and defend our sovereignty and way of life shall regret it bitterly.

You may win, but you shall never convince.

From: Workers' Commonwealth
To: Vinland
CC: American genocidal butchers
We cannot adequately express our disgust that Vinlandic officials have permitted Americans to viciously massacre their citizens, flagrantly in violation of international law and the so-called peace which exists between the United States and the Kingdom of Vinland, and now cannot find it within themselves to expose and punish the perpetrators. Did you lose your spines when you lost the Fatherland's administrators? We hereby extend our own offer to pay for the compensation of the families and kin of those who were killed, should the Yankee animals have left anyone alive.

From: Chokweland
To: Kongo

We would like to inform you that we invaded Burundi because of their raids in our territory. It was an act of self defense, not an act of aggression. If states attack us, we have the right to defend ourselves. And that's what we did. And we shall do it again, if an other state attacks us.

OOC: If I may, I request that I be able to do some diplomacy prior to this upcoming update as Burgundy, seeing as it might be useful.

Give me all your moniez.

Also, Iggy- That's golden.

@Bair: both Burgundy and Paris are effective puppet/satellite states of Occitania and Normandy/Orleans respectively (for the next couple years), so all diplomacy and all orders for Burgundy go through me first (and for Paris, through Orleans/Normandy first). Please send me a PM outlining your plans and diplomacy before doing anything.

Treaty of Kongo:

1. Full defensive pact between Kongo and Chokweland.

2. Aircraft basing rights for Kongo in Chokweland.

3. Chokwe would have to gain clearance from Kongo before waging further wars.

4. Chokwe allow full military movement by Kongo's armies through their territory, including logistics and actual forces.

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- Signed,

Negao Jasso, Great Leader of the Chokwe People

This is a terrible treaty and Brazil rejects the validity of it.

Brazil has nothing to do with the treaty, and so you cannot reject it.

Sermon of His Holiness Pope Pius X.​

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1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Embrace discipline, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

~Psalm 2

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The Second Psalm speaks unto the current age, where the heathen, the proletarist, the liberal, all those who have fallen from the Way and rejected the path that God has laid out for us, bring about ruin and war across the Earth. The wages of sin is death, not only in the next life but also in this life, sin has temporal consequences and brings only suffering by its own diabolical contingencies and consequences.

For indeed the heathen, unlike the Christian, seeks temporal and material reward looking not to heaven but to himself, he looks for a non-existent utopia where he is unrestrained, or in his hubris and greed pursues dominion over worldly things out of lust for power over others. Yet the consequences of his derision of the Lord, of his falling from the narrow way of Christ, which is self-giving, sacrifice, is the suffering and death of millions, and the utter desolation of men. This is clear to all with eyes to see, ears to listen and minds to understand. For example who cannot help but lament the deaths of millions in China where the Proletarists in their ignorance and blind pursuit of power have brought death and suffering unto countless millions, whose corpses even now pile higher than the mountains of skulls that are remembered from the conquests of the Mongol Khans. Indeed such is the carnage that the proletarists have brought about, that they push men and women to procreate to replace the fallen, albeit they seek to use these souls to perpetuate their ignorant rampage of violence, which they themselves started, simultaneously dehumanising those who die, and those yet to be born, turning living souls into mere cogs in their diabolical machine. Who cannot also help but lament the calamity in North America, where the proletarists and the advocates of blind nationalism bring about their mutual ruin, and the ruin of the innocents within the crossfire besides. Cannot they see the consequences of their rejection of Gods law? Do they not remember that all are members of the one human family? Can not the Chinese and the North Americans learn the lessons of Burgundy whom brought its own ruin in its rejection of God and Gods decree just as now the proletarists bring ruin in China? Cannot the protestants too who have so readily knelt at the altar of princes be they scottists or proletarist, serving unrestrained nationalism and secular ideology over the Most High God see the consequences of a rejection of Gods laws?

All these ideologues and nationalists fight in the name of "freedom", yet no one can say that true freedom and peace have characterized the situation where their godlessness reigns. Indeed those who have been subjected to such evil have fallen ever deeper into the tyranny of sin, shackled to the consequences of their error and deprived of the liberation of the gospel. We would say that even if there were no threat of a great war hanging over us at present, the world today would be more full of discord, brought about precisely due to a rejection of the peace of God, and the blind pursuit of worldly, selfish ends, than any other time in human history. Proletarists and nationlists alike fight in the name of unrestricted freedom for themselves, and forget that freedom cannot exist outside the limits of purpose and moral duty, most particularly mans ultimate purpose of salvation, and that it cannot exist without limits, lest freedom turn into the tyranny of the strong over the weak. Forgetting this truth, the proletarists who even now fight in China and America, and the radical nationalists and even some liberals misinterpret freedom as somehow including freedom for violence, freedom to act in conflict with Gods laws. We can see as such how this rebellion against the authority of heaven has taken on new and frightening guises, and understand that the faithful now more than ever, have a duty to live the faith ever more earnestly and combat the errors of our time.

To do this we must identify the new face of violence at its source. Namely, this new violence proceeds fundamentally from a denial of God, and has led to much cruelty and to a degree of violence that knows no bounds or limitations, which can accept no peace save through the totalitarian end of domination. This violence is evident in China, where despite that nations incomparable human suffering the proletarists will accept no peace. It is evident in North America where both sides reject dialogue, and dismiss peace out of hand, for to accept peace would be to recognise their own error, their own depraved actions and to see in its totality the evil that they have wrought. This violence, this loss of the human and rejection of the sacred only becomes possible when man no longer recognizes any criterion or any judge above himself, now having only himself to take as a criterion. It only becomes possible when man denies God, rejects Him, and egotistically makes himself the arbiter of the right. The horrors of the current age, from the Great war to the present which have surpassed the violence of all show this point to be true and are a sign to all the world of the imperative to reject the poisonous ideologies which have spawned this current darkness, and which if left unchecked would bring the world to an apocalyptic end. The Christian therefore to combat these errors must proclaim to the world the liberating law of God in opposition to the lawlessness of the advocates of "freedom". They must show the way of the prince of peace, in opposition to the violence of the devil. They must show the order offered by the Catholic Faith, where Proletarist, Liberalism and the rest have brought only chaos to the world.

The Christian, the pious follower of Christ who sees the shallowness and superficiality, the egotism and violent hubris of the modern ideologies of which we have spoken, understands through his faith and his reason that they are ultimately self-destroying. For as the second psalm informs us they who rage against the dominion of the Lord shalt be broken and ruined, for the wages of sin is death both in this life and the next brought on by the own folly of those who serve only their own egos and their own selfish desires. Yet just as St Augustine said he preached the gospel because he did not want to go to heaven without those he preached too, so too we Christians seek to bring the heathen to God out of love for them, and because we dread to see them deprived the light of the everliving God and of the promise of salvation.

Pray for the conversion of souls, and that God in his clemency may through his grace bring about HIS peace to the long-suffering peoples of China and North America, that they may come to know the liberation of his law, and the true freedom that comes from humble obedience to the Son.

Apostolic Benedictions.

~ Pius X. PP.

christos200 said:

Brazil has nothing to do with the treaty, and so you cannot reject it.

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I'm not rejecting the treaty, I'm rejecting the validity of it. It is a moronic treaty that gives your own rights to the Kongo without gaining anything in return. It makes no sense for Chowkeland to accept this, especially considering the Kongo's relationship with all other native governments.

Frankly, this is stupid and you should feel bad.

You are talking to christos. Try harder.

Denmark categorically denies any involvement with the Norwegian separatists.

However, your categorisation of brave patriots seeking independence as mentally ill is symptomatic of your tyranny.

I do not feel bad at all.

And so Christos became a vassal and feels happy about it.

Why am I not surprised. /facepalm

I see it more as an agreement that will protect Chokweland.

OOC: And anyway, why everyone cares on what "stupid" things I do? My nation wil be screwed, not yours.