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So, what have we been doing the last little bit? We'll I'm going to go ahead and warn this will be a double article, wall of text combo, with no TL;DR. It's gonna be pretty damn cool though so if you wanna hit a bookmark option and read it in shifts with your bunkmate and political commentary that'd be cool.
The Progress
Alliance integration isn't an easy thing, in fact (oddly enough) our first day we saw less allied support than in days past. That tends to deal with us being on Omega prio's rather than taking damage towards a common battle. We are committed to them and when a Prio is set we need to go there as well. In addition to that an Irish-Canadian war became a huge drain for forces united against Poland resulting in over 49 million from Spain and Ireland disappearing into a drain and 20 million from the Canucks. Both sides apologized and worked it out so that they went back to their defacto status before their war. Unfortunately that 69 mil missing was interestingly enough a whole 40 mil more than we needed to win in Alaska, costing us initiative. To put the full blame for our occupation on this incident would be ludicrous, but it certainly didn't help.
The followup days were better, with a cohesion forming between Omega members as we flipped a 16 mil Polish wall at t-2 in what can only be described as an epic display. Unfortunately, as many of you can guess, Poland's sheer might (one day doing over 126 mil) was able to overcome this in the long run. And this is a point I'd like to emphasize despite what
Liquid HOMICIDE says Omega is not a bad fit, and certainly not a worse fit than AGC. AGC represented interests and little common ground, something I hated. In Omega we had Spain, our one long time ally, and a whole host of old friends. The UK and Sweden ditched America during the Sigma days, a fact that kept me from even proposing or considering an MPP with them until recently. Sweden especially has proven that they are not the same Sweden that ditched us in Sigma, going out of their way to prove no connection to that government and sending large amounts of damage our way. Their CP is by far the most reliable foreign leader of the group, not to downplay any of our other allies, and consistently provides support in American RWs and battles. In one of the closest battles we've had Poland's damage output was over 120 million compared to the USA's 40 mil. Yet we only lost by a few mil overall, and why is that? Omega came through for us and supported, despite the feelings LO may have towards Omega countries they get results and are prepared to fight.
Unfortunately sometimes you have to be scapegoated. As around the world G7 became more competent they became a threat to both UNICO and Omega. Just like in the old days of TM and Sigma v Alpha coordination began between the two alliances out of a common aggressor. The problem, for America anyway, was growing pains. The timing was off for so many countries to fight at once, prime-times were not lined up, and since the Prio 1s never got off the ground the USA never got the joint support. What are these though than growing pains? We have talked within the alliance, and admittedly some of it involved me being insanely pissed at some countries, but it turned out for the better. We are increasing our coordination across the board because now there is trust in the alliance, trust that the plan actually will work and that we arn't just going from battle to battle randomly. Because of this people are much more likely to set and follow the actual orders instead of their own competing interests.
My Thoughts
Earlier in my term these wouldn't be thoughts as much as policy, but as we may be about to hand over control to a new President I cannot enact any of these plans. I've had a lot of time to think over the past few days (I'd been away for an FTX and there is a lot of hurry up and wait in the Army) and would like to present these ideas to you and any potential candidates at the same time.
1. HoW
We are beyond too dependent upon HoW. Why is that? Because we always run it I suppose. The truth is HoW isn't exactly a cheap program to run, and its supposed to be a supplement to supplies not a main meal. If you want supplies everyday join a commune or build a business empire (or get lucky with the Lottery). Talking from others we appear to have some... commune problems. The Army's staff is old and mostly in Secura nowadays, they still do their job to satisfaction but it isn't being maintained and upgraded as it was vigorously in the past. I am learning the trade of army commune and other things to take over and inject more life into that MU, hopefully resulting in a more constant supply level and maybe even improving it (if I suddenly become a genius).
2. Strike Channel
Seems the only way I can get people to the Strike Channel, except people like
Vivianne , is to crack open HoW. That's some bull man, the strike channel is how we coordinate our damage. It's how we amplify our power by avoiding overkill and focusing our damage. So what's the solution? Ironically more supplies... Pretty simply put if you're in the strikes channel frequently we'll add you to a list of frequent users. No matter your strength you will then get priority seating and a buff for supplies when HoW is open. America is more coordinated and people get more supplies, everyone wins eh?
3. Media
See my aforementioned rant on why I haven't written anything in a while. We've got a lot of stuff coming out near the end of the term (OMS funding for once and even a lottery) that has been in the works for a while. Congress can take all the credit for this one though, they really had some unique ideas in there. Back to my point though, these things will make semi-regular WHPR a necessity, even if some of them are filler. In addition to that I'd like a little survey added, let you guys give direct feedback to the government outside of passive-aggressive shouts.
4. Taxes
We should lower em a bit. I mean, we've got enough to work effectively as a government (even with the current war) and once we get out of the war we could really lower some taxes and make the USA look a wee bit more attractive as a market. Stuff like that.
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