Capto Iugulum

OOC: Wait, what? +8 EPs a year? Was that the Japanese immigrants from the mainland? Maybe they're not so bad. :0


To: Japan, Kongo, The Second Union, the USA, Florida, Monarchist Spain, Republican Spain, The League of Continental Nations, The Phalanx, The Concord
From: Peru

It seems Scandinavia is not content to support insurgents in just North America and Africa, but has also done so in Asia and indirectly affected South America, thus rounding out their export of proletarist violence to every inhabited continent in the world.
 
EQ, I sent you a PM with the outdated designs.
Also, I should have 23 artillery brigades, not 14. Forgot to put this in the message.
 
To the Emperor of Scandinavia
From the Confederation


As your longest standing ally, your fellow colonial empire, and as your powerful neighbour in Africa standing ready to help you against any threat with substantial forces, with our ties reaching back unbroken to 1830, we earnestly request that you give no assistance to those who would separate the colony of Kabinde from its rightful government.

Signed by King Joseph of Paris and Burgundy

OOC: EQ, you've got Kabinde and Hollandia completely the wrong way round on the map and stats. Hollandia is Kenya, and ought to contain the supposed capital of Kenya (Mombasa). Kabinde is in Angola, and contains the real-life place of Kabinda. This definitely needs correcting.
 
@spry: Are you sure? My notes say the other way around.
 
the 1844 update said:
CREATION OF HOLLANDIA. Fort Elmina, Republic of the Netherlands. The Dutch have established yet another new foothold on the African continent this year, with the construction of Fort Elmina north of Zanzibar. The new colony has been billed as the province of Hollandia, a refuge for Dutch settlers and colonists. So far, there has been very little interest in such a colony as the Dutch struggle to eke out an existence in the rough terrain. Some commerce has been generated by local trade with the Swedes and Arabians, but so far it has proven minute at best. The new colony has been garrison by a number of Dutch troops from home as they work towards securing supply lines in the Indian Ocean against foreign threats.

Update link

The 1844 update seems to make it pretty clear that Hollandia is the one in Kenya.
 
To: Scandinavia
From: Vinland


Your deliberate undermining of otherwise stable governments with which you are at peace is entirely unacceptable behaviour. Do you not realize what you are doing? By associating the causes of the worker with violence and lawlessness, you only provide ammunition to the forces against which you struggle. Vinland calls on Scandinavia to abandon this path, and focus on achieving its goals through peaceful, diplomatic manners.
 
To the Emperor of Scandinavia
From the Confederation


As your longest standing ally, your fellow colonial empire, and as your powerful neighbour in Africa standing ready to help you against any threat with substantial forces, with our ties reaching back unbroken to 1830, we earnestly request that you give no assistance to those who would separate the colony of Kabinde from its rightful government.

Signed by King Joseph of Paris and Burgundy

OOC: EQ, you've got Kabinde and Hollandia completely the wrong way round on the map and stats. Hollandia is Kenya, and ought to contain the supposed capital of Kenya (Mombasa). Kabinde is in Angola, and contains the real-life place of Kabinda. This definitely needs correcting.


Correct, Hollandia is kenya, and Kabinde is Angola. I can't see the map since its blocked at school, so I assumed you meant Angola.
 
ooc: I lost. Now what? Do I wait for the decisions of Peru or do I chose to play an other nation?
 
Well damn, my mistake then, I shall go back, and the names will be corrected. They were wrong in the stats too then, so that will require correcting.
 
OOC: Russia is the Emperor's longest standing ally, dating back to the 1800s

Actually the alliance between Scandinavia and the Franco-Burgundian Confederation (prior to that Paris-Burgundy and then just Burgundy) is technically more longstanding per the Northern League and other diplomatic accords between Scandinavia, Burgundy, and all its successor-states. Whereas Scandinavia and Russia became allies in the late 1840's/early 1850's per Scandinavia choosing to back the Muscovite state for Russian unification, as you're aware.

To: Scandinavia
From: Vinland


Your deliberate undermining of otherwise stable governments with which you are at peace is entirely unacceptable behaviour. Do you not realize what you are doing? By associating the causes of the worker with violence and lawlessness, you only provide ammunition to the forces against which you struggle. Vinland calls on Scandinavia to abandon this path, and focus on achieving its goals through peaceful, diplomatic manners.

From: Workers Commonwealth
To: Vinland

We have no reason to believe these agents the Kongo Society traitors have captured are of our own production. The Kongo Society has already falsified evidence of Scandinavian involvement in the Egyptian riots, where they used guns and munitions we sold them in order to assist them in maintaining rightful order in the colonies to plant evidence against the Revolutionary Government. We have no words. The Kongo Society regime is illegitimate, illegal, and immoral. We are not at fault here. The troubling disloyalty of colonial subjects in Africa towards their mother countries, shown in the Kongo and now in Hollandia, is a crisis of international proportions. We do not accept responsibility for the discovery of "proletarist agents" in the Kongo; our position is, and we believe we have plenty of evidence that such a thing has occurred in the past and that the Kongo Society is willing to fabricate such claims, is that these arrests are falsely reported.
 
To: The USA, Japan, Vinland, the Concord in general
From: Peru

Firstly, while it is not related to the issue below, Peru wishes to thank Vinland's for its advise on how to handle the immigrant situation in its country. As its allies know Peru is a nation that does not forget any goodwill bestowed upon it, and has actively engaged in the reconstruction of allied countries. Nor will we forget or fail to repay any kindness shown towards our country, whether it is bestowed by a neutral or enemy country.

However, it is with considerable sadness that we have just noticed in world news the Vinnish blockade of Seattle, an act of war against the USA.
Last year's final signatures inducting the USA into the Concord were very late, as such the blockade (an act of war) against the USA up to, but not including January the 1st of 1918, cannot be considered to invoke the defensive alliance.
We must politely demand an immediate lifting of Vinland's blockade of the USA in the year of 1918, or be forced to declare war on Vinland in defense of our ally's sovereign territorial waters.
 
ooc: Peru, can you decide about Ecuador?
 
A Sunny Day in Lima

Midmorning sun filtered through a row of trees as two figures walked through a park in the Peruvian capital. Embassy row lay on one side of the park, while the structures of the Peruvian government lay on the other. In this, a pleasant and neutral meeting ground, two figures strolled through the park. One was Erik Vasiliev, the Vinlandic ambassador. Beside him was none other than the Prime Minister, Eduardo Perez.

A small security detachment of Peruvian soldiers followed inconspicuously behind them, which was of little interest to the two men, who were engaged in a rather animated discussion. The Vinlandic Ambassador was speaking at great lengths of some matter, while the Peruvian Prime Minister listened, in nodding, receptive silence.

"Now if I may adopt a more informal tone, Mister Prime Minister, I'd like to tell you a bit about the history of Vinland.

We were established as a colony of Sweden back in the mid-1600s, and have spent much of that history bordering the much-larger English-dominated neighbour to our south, the land that would ultimately become the United States of America. In the past, we have had good relations with a democratic America, and... poorer relations with an absolutist America. The nadir of our relationship came with the Bodenborg Incident, when American cavalry crossed the border in the Västermark, allied with our erstwhile mutual enemy, the Skraelings, slaughtering the town of Bodenborg.

Thus, you may begin to understand our... complex relationship with the English Americans. As a dictatorship, we have been enemies, though Vinland has worked to ameliorate this relationship in the past. As a democracy, we have been close friends and economic partners.

Upon the collapse of the old American government, we declared that we would not yet recognize a faction as the legitimate government, due to the dangers of angering a force which may ultimately grow to rule the nation that emerged from the turmoil. However, when the United American Republic in Albany, who we supported in spirit but without spoken word or material aid, came to make peace and merge with the remnants of the old Federal Government in Charleston, we realized that a new, legitimate, democratic government had come to fruition. Statsminister Grim Magnusson, ever a man ready to make bold decisions, decided to recognize the Second Union, with the hopes of securing a strong friendly neighbour and securing peace in the continent.

Keep in mind that Vinland has been terribly diplomatically isolated for many years. For the longest time, we had no one but Scandinavia. However, Scandinavia's involvement in imperialist conflicts gradually drove a wedge between us, one that has only widened with the overthrow of Emperor Harald II. Brazil is to combative, America was overtly threatening, and the powers of Europe too distant, or interested in naught but Vinland's ports and resources. Given this, the desire to forge a new friendship has been strong indeed, strong enough perhaps to lead us along the path we have trodden.

Now, let us go back to the matter at hand, that of General Wallace and his Allied Territories. In the beginning, when he united the various military governates of the northwest into a single force, we forged a working relationship with him, establishing trade and welcoming the stability he brought. At that time, he still pledged his loyalty to the Federal Government in Charleston.

However, times have changed, and we fear greatly that the taste of power has overtaken the higher causes for which the General once fought. When Charleston and Albany merged to form a new government in Washington, the Second Union, the direct successor of the government to which he had pledged his loyalty, extended an olive branch to General Wallace, an offer that was most unexpectedly rejected, on claims that foreign support had rendered the Charleston government illegitimate. How he rationalizes the support of the entire Pacific Concord behind his government remains a mystery to me.

Regardless of this, Wallace has now set himself as a major obstacle standing in the way of a lasting peace in North America. Vinland has no problems with the ongoing existence of Jacksonia, and Florida- both of these governments have formed fair and representative structures- indeed, our overseers were present even as these new governments were erected, and can attest to the legitimacy of their democracies. However, the Allied Territories, which you unfortunately recognize as the legitimate government of much of a continent, serve only as a tool for the ambitions of General Wallace, and so long as he stands in opposition, peace will be terribly hard to achieve.

It is our hope that no war will break out, as we hold no ill-will to the various nations of the Pacific Concord, save for the Allied Territories, which again we do not recognize as being anything more than a rogue military governate that has yet to be reigned in by its erstwhile commanders. It is our hope that a workable peace can be resolved wherein the Allied Territories unite with the Federal Government, as they had pledged to do in years past. Our army, we hope, shall stand only as a force of diplomatic pressure, indicating our profound disapproval of Wallace's actions, and our ability to involve ourselves in ending the American conflict should we determine that the need for us to do so is dire.

May this dire day never come, and may peace continue to reign between our nations for many years. Thank you for your attention, Mister Prime Minister, it has been an honour."
 
ooc: Peru, can you decide about Ecuador?

OOC: It'll take a year for you to regain control of Ecuador, if you wish. Normally people choose new nations when totally occupied I've heard, though it seems some people have roleplayed occupied nations very well from both an RP and strategic point of view. I'd suggest asking EQ what to do next. Regardless, it was a good fight! :)
 
To Persia
From Russia


We feel that the situation with the Khazaks cannot be solved by either of our nations. Only by working together can we cease this raiding. We shall be deploying increased forces to the area to subjugate the rebellious tribes and would appreciate your cooperation in this matter.

To Azerbaijan
From Russia


We are concerned with the treatment of the Orthodox Christians within your nation.

To World
From Russia
Re: German Brotherhood


Any nation found giving aid, funds, weapons, succor, and/or support to the illegal terrorist network calling itself "The German Brotherhood" will face the full wrath of the Empire of Russia
 
Erik Vasiliev said:
... However, times have changed, and we fear greatly that the taste of power has overtaken the higher causes for which the General once fought. When Charleston and Albany merged to form a new government in Washington, the Second Union, the direct successor of the government to which he had pledged his loyalty, extended an olive branch to General Wallace, an offer that was most unexpectedly rejected, on claims that foreign support had rendered the Charleston government illegitimate. How he rationalizes the support of the entire Pacific Concord behind his government remains a mystery to me.

Regardless of this, Wallace has now set himself as a major obstacle standing in the way of a lasting peace in North America. Vinland has no problems with the ongoing existence of Jacksonia, and Florida- both of these governments have formed fair and representative structures- indeed, our overseers were present even as these new governments were erected, and can attest to the legitimacy of their democracies. However, the Allied Territories, which you unfortunately recognize as the legitimate government of much of a continent, serve only as a tool for the ambitions of General Wallace, and so long as he stands in opposition, peace will be terribly hard to achieve.

It is our hope that no war will break out, as we hold no ill-will to the various nations of the Pacific Concord, save for the Allied Territories, which again we do not recognize as being anything more than a rogue military governate that has yet to be reigned in by its erstwhile commanders. It is our hope that a workable peace can be resolved wherein the Allied Territories unite with the Federal Government, as they had pledged to do in years past. Our army, we hope, shall stand only as a force of diplomatic pressure, indicating our profound disapproval of Wallace's actions, and our ability to involve ourselves in ending the American conflict should we determine that the need for us to do so is dire.
May this dire day never come, and may peace continue to reign between our nations for many years. Thank you for your attention, Mister Prime Minister, it has been an honour."


"I thank you for your sincere and heartfelt words Ambassador Vasiliev." Eduardo responded. "You have further lifted my already great esteem of the Vinnish people and in particular of your desire for just government."
"Let me assure you that Peru fully understands and does not object to the Kingdom of Vinland's need for the security provided by and sovereign right to the stationing of its army on the borders of the United States' territory. Furthermore we are aware of what you point out, the gradual nature of the United States' democracy. It is a Peruvian belief that change must come gradually, we ourselves only left the Spanish Empire when no other option was any longer possible; we feel there is a great need in the world today for a broader perpective with the exception of towards Traditional Proletarists. Indeed in our modern days numerous Social Proletarists and even some Republicans believe that such constitutional democracies as the Konungariket Vinlandsk and the Peruvian Kingdom are oppressive and tyrannic. It is our ambition to convince the non-democratic members in the Concord of the need for reform.

At the same time, I feel the need to reiterate the fact that while the United States has undergone some cautious reform in regards to its planned abolishment of slavery, from the time its political course was charted by Charleston, it has taken no offensive actions other than in self defense, if anything it has been more defensive than even Jacksonia which absorbed Utah by force, and Florida which has retaken its territory from the Proletarists. It is the government that originated in Albany that attempted with partial success, which would have fully succeeded, were it not for the military cooperation and negotiations between the Allied Territories of America at the time and the Great Lakes Republic, in coercing the Great Lakes Republic into the fold of the United American Republic which has now reformed into the Second Union. The government in Denver has done nothing but defend, in stark contrast to the present Washington government that not only wishes to annex the United States as represented by Denver, but also ravished the Great Lakes Republic and wishes to do so as well to the good Republics of Jacksonia and Florida that Vinland hopes will survive. This is of course not even touching on their use of gas warfare against the Proletarists, even the Traditional Proletarists of Appalachia, Tennessee and Mississippi have shown enough self control to only use these weapons in retaliation.
We ask only that the blockade be lifted. While the port of Seattle is of only minor strategic importance it is symbolic importance as its waters are, after all, the USA's sovereign territory in our eyes."
"Rest assured, we will not finance or support Denver to attack any other American polity, with the exception of the Proletarists that have just attacked their territory. We will only guarantee the integrity of the totality of their existing territory."

"Lastly, I once again wish to thank you for your country's advice on our immigrant problem. If there is ever anything Peru can do to aid Vinland in the integration of its population, we will aquiesce, even if what is needed is the contribution of funds."
 
OOC: Russia has the best foreign policy. Like they were at a dinner with the other nations and just announced out loud: "Any nation found loosening the cap on the salt shaker just before we decide that our stew needs some more salt WILL FACE THE FULL MIGHT OF THE EMPIRE OF RUSSIA." Then they calmly resume eating their stew while everyone else looks on, aghast and bewildered.
 
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