Symphony D.
Deity
FROM: Russian Federation
TO: European Union
CC: Global Release
The irony of European arrogance in preaching ecological compatibility with the local biosphere to the Chinese while denying the Russian colonists on Zenit the type of advanced technology necessary to prevent a relapse into industrial wastage, which is rapidly becoming the only option for such a colony under the absolutely ridiculous taxes levied by the European Union, has been noted. Expenditure estimates and depletion rates of goods and machinery sent with the colonists have been attached so that the hypocrisy of Europe may be fully known, and that Russian colonists may not be blamed for taking measures which may be required to ensure their own survival.
Furthermore, in light of the highly vindictive and irrational nature of the taxation rate upon goods to Zenit, which the government Russian Federation finds unbecoming of a supposedly mature and "established power," it is hereby announced that a blanket embargo of all imports from the European Union has officially been enacted, and transit privileges to all Russian controlled areas outside of Earth has been restricted (excepting immigration of the groups outlined in President Kerensky's recent speech) and that both these measures will remain in place until such time as the European Union has recovered from it's tantrum.
The Russian government at no time betrayed any "trust" of the European Union. We were not obligated to tell the European Union where our colony ship was going, we were not obligated to tell it that we had a technology which it cannot match, and we were not obligated to provide it fair notice of our intentions unless it has the gall to suggest that it had some sort of innate and manifest right to colonize 091-322. We will therefore not consent to being treated as inferiors, to be scolded like some petulant grand-daughter being lectured by her babushka. We will continue to uphold this position until the European Union exercises the proper respect in dealing with its fellow nations. That is all.
TO: European Union
CC: Global Release
The irony of European arrogance in preaching ecological compatibility with the local biosphere to the Chinese while denying the Russian colonists on Zenit the type of advanced technology necessary to prevent a relapse into industrial wastage, which is rapidly becoming the only option for such a colony under the absolutely ridiculous taxes levied by the European Union, has been noted. Expenditure estimates and depletion rates of goods and machinery sent with the colonists have been attached so that the hypocrisy of Europe may be fully known, and that Russian colonists may not be blamed for taking measures which may be required to ensure their own survival.
Furthermore, in light of the highly vindictive and irrational nature of the taxation rate upon goods to Zenit, which the government Russian Federation finds unbecoming of a supposedly mature and "established power," it is hereby announced that a blanket embargo of all imports from the European Union has officially been enacted, and transit privileges to all Russian controlled areas outside of Earth has been restricted (excepting immigration of the groups outlined in President Kerensky's recent speech) and that both these measures will remain in place until such time as the European Union has recovered from it's tantrum.
The Russian government at no time betrayed any "trust" of the European Union. We were not obligated to tell the European Union where our colony ship was going, we were not obligated to tell it that we had a technology which it cannot match, and we were not obligated to provide it fair notice of our intentions unless it has the gall to suggest that it had some sort of innate and manifest right to colonize 091-322. We will therefore not consent to being treated as inferiors, to be scolded like some petulant grand-daughter being lectured by her babushka. We will continue to uphold this position until the European Union exercises the proper respect in dealing with its fellow nations. That is all.