The Holy See would like to correct Romnesia's misinterpretation, which seems to imply that the closing of the straits only applied to Romnesia and its allies, and affirm that the closing of the straits applied to the warships of ALL parties involved in the Romnesian War. Furthermore we again note that the closing of the straits occured BEFORE the spammers became involved, and it only affected them post fact, due to their decision to become involved sometime after the agreement between the Papal States, Sinai and Granada was in effect, and without the knowledge of the three states involved.
As such, and considering the outcome that the Spammers Crusade would lose some naval quality (we note they were not blocked off from the war, due to their ports in the persian gulf and indeed participated in the Naval combat in the Gulf of Guinea) was completely unforseen, and thus no biased intent can be assumed inasmuch that the Crusades intervention was after the fact. Considering this fact, paying the Crusade moneys would be completely absurd, and be the equivalent of taking the costs of problems that were caused solely due to their own actions, especially considering no lives would of been lost at all if the Spammers crusade had remained uninvolved.
