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You might have noticed that I am no longer a US citizen. I want everyone to know that I haven't left our country nor my duties here for greener pastures and Q5 Weapons in Poland, but that while we celebrate our Independence on this Fourth Day of July, our friends in Poland are besieged by all the world.
I've taken Polish citizenship to take advantage of defensive buffs in her defense and I will return as soon as she is delivered to safety and stability.
I remember there was a lot of mixed feelings a few months ago when the decision was made to leave the Aleutian Pact alliance, which was crumbling under the pressure of internal division. A lot of people didn't like G7 and a lot of people didn't like the idea of abandoning our friends and some of our friends in Aleutian Pact felt abandoned.
I will tell you the same thing I told them. I still cared for them and I was still looking out for them and that I was actually in a better position to do so as a member of G7 than I possibly could have from the outside.
I invite anyone who thinks of us as betrayers to take a look at France, who wasted no time in declaring war on the members of it's former alliance. The same alliance France collapsed with it's obstinate insistence on not supporting the members of their alliance over their Friends. Now they invade the members of their former alliance with those same friends.
I often say this is just a game, and it is, but I still think that's pretty disgusting.
As the rubble of G7's collapse clears, we emerge from the dust unscathed. But we have two giants limping and with their massive arms draped over our shoulders for support. Both welcomed us immediately as friends, put aside our differences and helped us share in the spoils and helped to defend us when we bit off a bit more than we could chew.
With their help, we fended off an attack from our longtime friends in Russia and another from Iran. We reclaimed CEC, however briefly, and we defeated invasion efforts by Mexico, France and Portugal while we still fought Canada.
We formed a new alliance with them and with the best people from Aleutian Pact.
And it is my great pleasure to have been chosen as our Supreme Commander and the High Priest of the Nation of
LukeZo
We formed this alliance knowing it would be a challenge and knowing the odds were stacked high against us. France swallows Belgium chunk by chunk and Poland fights enemies from all directions and Lithuania claws to maintain itself every day. The Netherlands watches her sister being consumed, helpless to stop it. Brazil drives to the heart of Spain, demanding only their borders be respected and being laughed at by the talking corpse that is Spain.
G7 was not over-powered when we joined it, though people consistently said otherwise. We have now chosen to handicap ourselves, such that we can continue to work with people we enjoy working with because, at the end of the day, we would all rather be occupied than let alliances of hypocrites, braggarts, idiots and malcontents tell any of us who we're allowed to be friends with.
Rise or fall, succeed or fail this is my dream team.
I can't think of anyone else I would rather be backed into a corner with than those who we are backed into the corner with now.
Today, we take the day to celebrate our Independence and to consider the sacrifices that won it and, more broadly, we consider the saccrifices of those around the world who struggle for freedom. The fighters. The journalists. The artists. The faithful. The doubtful. The bonded. The addicted.
Freedom is not an easy thing and, in some way, we must all struggle for it and with it all the time.
If we do not, we do not truly appreciate it nor are we truly free.
The horde in front of us is many deep.
And we are few.
But we will outlast even this.
Keep fighting.
I will meet you on the other side.
Love,
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USA as a world power? In E-Sim it is possible!
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