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A day or two ago
Orinocco asked (theoretically) a vital question. "Why aren't we negotiating with Lithuania?". It's a very legit questions which deserves an official answer. I think like Orinocco (assumption) that we can't fight the Liths during a longer period of time, and primarily, we can't fight our way at the moment to freedom. We can sustain an sovereign nation, we can't protect its borders from alien invaders, a.k.a. Lithuania.
So negotiations are a legit thought. If you can use the sword, use the pen.
But... there is a problem, and instead of writing an explanation of this myself, I'll simply just quote about a half a page from Gene Sharp's "From dictatorship to democracy" (keep an eye on Gene, future Nobel Peace Prize???), which is an extraordinary good book. It can be applied to most conflicts, it's interesting, having read it makes you look good in political forums, it's thought-worthy, etc etc etc. And I'm too lazy to rewrite what he's already written.
The quote;
Power and Justice in negotiations
[...]. "Negotiation" does not mean that the two sides sit down together on a basis of equality and talk through and resolve the differences that produced the conflict between them. Two facts must be remembered. First, in negotiations it is not the relative justice of the conflicting views and objectives that determines the content of a negotiated agreement. Second, the content of a negotiated agreement is largely determined by the power capacity of each side.
Several difficult questions must be considered. What can each side do at a later date to gain its objectives if the other side fails to come to an agreement at the negotiating table? What can each side do after an agreement is reached of the other side breaks its word and uses its available forces to seize its objectives despite the agreement?
A settlement is not reached in negotiations through an assessment of the rights and wrong of the issues at stake. While those may be much discussed, the real results in negotiations come from an assessment of the absolute and relative power situations of the contending groups. What can the democrats [read the United Kingdom] do to ensure that their minimum claims cannot be defined? What can the dictators [read Lithuania] do to stay in control and neutralize the democrats [read the British]? In other words, if an agreement comes, it is more likely the result of each side estimating how the power capacities of the two sides compare, and then calculating how an open struggle might end.
End of quote, you can find this on page 19-20, early on in the book. He continues to talk about what the different parties are willing to give up, etc.
The point here is simple and that is that negotiations are off the table. Everyone is aware that there can only be for the United Kingdom one acceptable outcome, and that is our liberation, us being sovereign. We will not sell out friends and allies to get this, we will not sell out our regions to get this, we will not sell out our citizens and their freedom to fuck up as they wish to get this... and if you won't do that, then there isn't much to be discussed, and even less worth wasting our time discussing.
Unless Lithuania or the United Kingdom is changed to its core by a PTO'er, a massive fall off a pedestal, a complete change of attitude from the government, whatever, unless that happens we won't have any negotiations.
Cheers,
Prime Minister/el Presidente
Bacon
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