KaiserIOT: Dream of a World

[VGL]

It is not the end: you still have a chance, o President of Mexico. As stated the Catholics are not targeted by the Yugoslavians. Why the problem?

Keep in mind you are proving to be useless: does your word hold stone if your so set to betray? Repent and this may change! Strive for forgiveness and denounce your war declaration against Yugoslavia.

Nope. Since the Catholics are being forced to work with orthodox or they'll be killed. Cause in here, "presude" means forced.

 

[Ailedhoo]

Nope. Since the Catholics are being forced to work with orthodox or they'll be killed. Cause in here, "presude" means forced.

Being asked by the sovereign is being forced? I guess telling your troopers to stay on guard or be fired is also forcing...

Anyway the strong will that is Vancore has been vigilant with you. We have suggestion the persuasion was honest and that your reaction is a rather chaotic path of national suicide. Did you not think through who was bordering you and who that bordering power have a alliance with?

Because of the emotion that taken over your authority I will plead then for the lives of your warriors: do not waste them by carrying on a war against Yugoslavia or we will make their lives shorter. You may find that we will have more logistical opportunities that denied us entry into the war against Constantinople. You can avoid this if you stop your aggression towards our allies. This is your last chance.

 

[Mathalamus]

Well, the difference is that Rome doesn't prosecute Sunni population. And why should i worry about you? I'v got many "Bombs" that will destroy your major cities in one second. Plus i'v got a great army. I won't say what it is because you might use that and build or use something that weakens me and plus, unlike you, i'm a democracy which means people decide how the government is run. Not me. If i could control it, then i would ban the anarchists immediately or make them only have one seat

if you absolutely must use these bombs, please target large military formations, large military bases, or fortress cities. it would be wise to follow our direction. we do not wish to see the Gethic enraged beyond reason because you blew up their capital. or something.

Aren't the Romans Catholic?

no. Minority orthodox with a majority sunni Islam population.

 

[christos200]

Ilias Psinakis lols at Mexico and Rome.

 

[Ailedhoo]

Avocating war against the Gethic? We are setting legitimate concerns Rome; our issue is our pact with Yugoslavia.

Blow up fortress cities? You are telling them to hurt civilians? That they call us killers?!

Anyway it is best Mexico goes neutral: it does not want with the Hand. It would be against Mexican national interest.

 

[VGL]

Avocating war against the Gethic? We are setting legitimate concerns Rome; our issue is our pact with Yugoslavia.

Blow up fortress cities? You are telling them to hurt civilians? That they call us killers?!

Anyway it is best Mexico goes neutral: it does not want with the Hand. It would be against Mexican national interest.

Don't tell us what to do

 

[Ailedhoo]

Don't tell us what to do

Tell what? To not hurt Gethic civilians?

To not drag yourself into a unnecessary conflict?

To threaten yourself?

 

[christos200]

To our Gethic allies: Please, do not waste time and effort in trying to persuade the Mexicans. Even as our allies they caused more trouble than help.

 

[Ailedhoo]

True...

 

[Polyblank]

Germany is disappointed to see tensions flare up in a conflict of now global scale. We call for Mexico to become sensible and to become neutral. The Republic believes it would serve their interests much more than being at war with either Rome or Yugoslavia. After all, their attempts to reach Europe failed before and will most likely fail again.

 

[VGL]

Germany is disappointed to see tensions flare up in a conflict of now global scale. We call for Mexico to become sensible and to become neutral. The Republic believes it would serve their interests much more than being at war with either Rome or Yugoslavia. After all, their attempts to reach Europe failed before and will most likely fail again.

We Thanks Germany for their offer but no.

 

[Civ'ed]

The Kingdom of Egypt hereby invites delegations from Rome and Yugoslavia to peace talks in Cairo.
Edit:
A) Italy as well.
B) Rome, Italy, and Yugoslavia are hereby at Cairo (OOC: Christos is being a tad shonky about it but peace talks happening)
Edit2:
OOC: Faster peace talks never happened.
IC:

Treaty of Cairo​

1. Slovenia is to be ceded to Italy.
2. Thrace is to be ceded to Yugoslava, and Rome shall renounce all claims.
3. Croatia is to become a buffer state under joint Italian-Yugoslav control
4. There shall be a non-intervention in signatories' affairs.

Signed,
Andreas I Laskaris, EMPEROR of ROME
Ilias Psinakis, PRESIDENT of YUGOSLAVIA
Mario Mario, DIPLOMAT of ITALY

 

[Mathalamus]

Treaty Confirmed by Emperor Andreas I

 

[SouthernKing]

Italy confirms with a flashy message and some roses

 

[christos200]

Signed,

Ilias Psinakis, President, Grand Marshall and Great Leader of Yugoslavia.

Bosnians, we are coming back. The Islamic State will soon be over.

 

[Polyblank]

The German Government wishes to congratulate Yugoslavia, Italy, Rome and also Egypt for taking an important role in these negotiations. Let us hope that this will conference was the first step on the right road. Peace in our time!
We hope that the Yugoslav Government retracts their prize for the assassination of the Roman Emperor, now that peace has been achieved. We also would like to announce that Egypt is the most recent member of the world to join CERN!

 

[christos200]

Union of Socialist Balkan Republics

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Ilias Psinakis has officially renamed the state to Union of Socialist Balkan Republics (USBR). The reason for this change of name is that almost half of the state's Republics are outside of Yugoslavia and many of them are not even Slavic. After all, the concept of a Southern Slavic state is outdated, as the main ideology of USBR has been Communism and Internationalism.

The Socialist Republics of Union are: Thrace, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Montenegro and Bosnia.

Intense bombing of the Islamic State of Bosnia has begun while a large part of the Yugoslav Army has moved to the border with the terrorist state. Soon, Yugoslav tanks and soldiers shall cross the border and restore law and order to Bosnia. Napalm bombs have been used extensively, making sure that the military power of the Islamists is destroyed even before the ground invasion.

In other news, the assassination prize in withdrawn,

 

[SamSniped]

The Republic of Texas urges Mexico to not escalate any tensions further, but also would like to denounce the coercive diplomacy used by the Gethic Hand as a petty way to keep reign over its allies, and urges Mexico to leave the alliance known as "COPE" rather quickly.

 

[Sonereal]

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

Volume II​

EDITORIAL RESPONSE TO THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT

Despite the Treaty of Cairo coming into effect between the publication of the last article and today's newsletter, Ronald Fitzgerald, Editor of the Bell Tolls, decided to dedicate the head article to responses by the Roman government. The editorial is as follows.

Spoiler Editorial :

i know that. just get the facts right, thats all.

This is a deceptive statement. While the Roman government agrees with the sentiment, by attacking the wording of a sentence to prove a point, the Roman government was trying to score cheap points to shore up its position. The point of this simple "correction" is to make the opposition look uninformed, while putting on a mask and pretending the Roman government is, somehow, a wise state actor.

untrue by a huuuuuge margin. the world knew that Rome was Rome, but pretended otherwise as a slight to them. you would say that Yugoslavia isnt Yugoslavia when the capital is in Bucharest and not Belgrade? if you say no, then you are a hypocrite and that invaliates everything you say.

More deception. The revisionists in the Roman government are attempting to paint a different picture of an event that happened nearly two thousand years ago solely for the purposes of legitimacy and to, proactively, justify the lost of Constantinople, the only claim to being a Roman Empire the Empire had. With Constantinople lost, it goes without saying the state has no cultural ties to the Roman identity any longer. The Roman Empire, which controls not Rome, Ravenna, or Constantinople, cannot claim to be a Roman Empire. If it can, then why not Yugoslavia? After all, Yugoslavia, with the recent embrace of the Orthodox Church and successfully acquisition of Constantinople, now has a stronger claim to the purple than the Greek Emperor in Ankara does.

standard size of the Roman Army is 25,000 soliders. surely you can do the math? the Emperors guard have 50,000.

we chose to have small army sizes to ease logistical concerns.

and the other 400,000 are Constantinople people, who chose to stay behind as Civilian militia. they are not considered armies.

For those with any sense of how armies should be organized, this are divisions. Assuming three to four divisions in a corps, two to four corps to a real army, and that still equals

according to the math, its 20 regular armies, plus the Emperors Guard, and 20 reserve armies, plus the Reserve Emperors Gaurd. only four reserve armies are actually activated.

Two to five real armies (as opposed to fake armies of 25,000). There is also the claim that smaller armies mean easier logistics, but this makes zero sense when all the armies are operating in a relatively small theater, and would be practically bumping up against each other. Like I said, forty Roman armies is equal to, effectively, two to five real armies. We're talking twenty-five different commanders, assuming the Roman Armies aren't organized into larger groups, which begs the question. What is the next step above Roman Army? Is a Roman Army Group a corps? Then what about a real, modern, field army?

There is a reason why successful armed forces aren't organized in this way, and Rome's poor showing in the Balkan War lends credence to this belief.

i question your ability to know what a functioning economy is.

A country that is desperately holding onto its foothold on another continent, especially if that foothold contains the single most important legacy city of that country, wouldn't waste time and not mobilize the reserves. The inability to mobilize and the seemingly lack of political will paints a picture of a Rome that had given up on Constantinople before the Treaty of Cairo was even signed. Given the events after the creation of forty divisions, again, it is hard to disagree with this line of thinking.

are you crazy? are out out fo your mind? we sitll have Constantinople, the most important city in this province after 9 months. 9. months. if anything its the Yugoslavians who should be questioned, for their failure to overcome the Romans.

For the history books, readers. The Emperor of a country that lost the second most important city in that country's imperial legacy is now treating his own military forces as no better than the barbarian mercenary forces it used to hire.

A RETURN TO A SECTARIAN EUROPE

The Peace of Westphalia led to the modern nation-state in 1648. Westphalia seemingly had pushed Europe beyond the petty sectarian divides, or at least, marginalized sectarianism in European politics. For nearly the next four centuries, ideology, imperialism, and investment would mark the main points of contention between the peoples of Europe as well as nationalism, pan-nationalism, and the usual host of -isms.

In the last news article, the Bell suggested that those welcoming Islamist Bosnia may well change their tune, and already we are being vindicated. Yugoslavia is playing with fire, and while the Treaty of Cairo may have ended one war, Yugoslavia is already embarking a new, dirtier war. Unlike the Balkan War, this won't be a war between conventional forces in the field, but between a conventional force and ideologies. Orthodox paramilitaries, like all paramilitaries in history, are a fire. Fire is notoriously difficult to control once you start one, and once a state starts to change its legitimizing ideology over night, it is difficult to reverse the trend.

The immediate effect, of course, was the cute declaration of war by Mexico on Yugoslavia. The declaration was cute, but the butterfly had started to flap its wings. Mexico's declaration was met by a stiff Gethic response. Unlike Gethic Hand power in Europe, this has the potential to escalate and lead to something meaningful and substantial, especially as the diplomatic row has expanded to include bordering Texas, and powerhouse Germany. Mexico keeps claiming it has atomic weapons, but there is no proof. A nuclear program isn't easy to hide, and Mexico is Mexico. All claims that Mexico has an atomic weapon should be taken with a grain of salt until proof is delivered. With that said, all Mexican threats to use the bomb, whether or not it has them, should be taken serious. States should cut their diplomatic ties with a government that so flagrantly flaunts international law and threatens the use of atomic weapons against cities.

There is much to be said, but lets be honest. Mexico supposedly had magical bombs, but never used them even when they clearly were needed. Mexico is, at best, filled with liars in its foreign ministry. For some, it it hard to care. The constant dispatch of Mexican, Gethic, and Roman diplomatic messages is grating on the nerves of the world. Eventually, it gets to the point where it is natural to simply tune out. Had the Treaty of Cairo been posted by Roman diplomats, nobody would've cared to look for at least twelve hours.

What we here at the Bell believe is interesting is the shift in German foreign policy. Germany, in no uncertain terms, has been delivered a stinging public rebuke by the Mexican government, leaving egg on the face of the new German government.

THE ROLE OF THE AFRICAN UNION IN THE 21ST CENTURY

In one fell swoop, the Maghreb Union declared that Africa is off-limits. Like the United States' Monroe Doctrine, this is not only a formal declaration that outside intervention will result in diplomatic consequences, but an implicit statement that the Maghreb Union seeks to turn southward and focus on expanding its power in Africa.

The official reason is to resist imperialism, but with holdings in Europe, Maghreb is the only country in Africa to have ties to two continents besides Egypt. Furthermore, this isn't the Africa of the 20th Century. There are, at this time, only five states in Africa, six including Madagascar. One of these just brokered a peace in the Balkan War.

When a country declares a region off-limits to outsiders, and has significant power in that region, we call that carving out a sphere of influence, and in this case, Maghreb has thrown down a gauntlet.

 

[NinjaCow64]

We congratulate Italy, Rome and the newly christened Balkan Republics on achieving peace. We hope that this will be the last time such a brutal conflict darkens this earth.