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As many of you will know,Lone Wolves United, Ijaka, and Sparkalia recently invaded our territory and frontier region A Taco Paradise, aiming to remove the Governor as a part of a quorum raid.
10000 Islands stands for freedom and it is our mission to help regions that have been attacked unfairly. We would be remiss if we allow this attack on our territory to go unanswered.
Article 2.1. of the Constitution sets out the powers of the Chief Executive as follows:
2.1. The duties, rights, and obligations of the Chief Executive shall be to serve as Commander in Chief of the Ten Thousand Islands Treaty Organization (TITO), ... and to declare war for the defense of 10000 Islands, it subordinate regions, and its allies and friendly regions deemed to be under attack by aggressor regions.
An attack on A Taco Paradise is an attack on each and every one of us. It is no less severe than if 10000 Islands proper had been targeted. After discussions with the Council of Nine and TITO Command, I have decided to invoke the above clause of the Constitution and declare war on the regions Lone Wolves United, Ijaka, and Sparkalia.
We will use every fibre of our being to oppose their actions and their regions.
In addition to this, we have joined with some of our allies in this declaration of war:
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Post by Valentian Elysium on Oct 7, 2023 4:59:23 GMT -5
A broken pencil has a bigger point than this war
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Post by Jabberwocky on Oct 7, 2023 10:19:32 GMT -5
Thanks for the update, boss.
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👀 do I sense some disagreement within the council?
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Honestly though, I agree with Val Its not like we had friendly relations with any of the regions anyway.
Still even if its pointless in a practical sense, the declaration of war is more about a statement of our region's position for other regions, and it has great effectiveness at doing that (as war is probably the worst relationships between regions can be).
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Personally, I saw no point in unilaterally declaring peace on LWU in the first place, so this is just going back to the inevitable.
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You can't make peace with the barbarians; you're at constant state of war with them whether it's formalized or not. The declaration serves as a rallying cry for our people and allies as well as letting everyone else know where we stand.
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Seconded. A broken pencil also won't hurt our regional population by forcing ATP to remain a stronghold for security reasons (due to its increased target profile). And as we all agree, it's not like this declaration changes our attitude on LWU, all it does is allow us to attack LWU without breaking one of our treaties (under which we cannot attack those region's embassy regions). LWU is a stronghold, we would gain literally nothing from attacking because we would be ousted immediately. Those other regions we could attack anyway, so long as they're not embassy partners with that region, which I do not think they are.
But yes, there was disagreement within the council on this matter. However, as Markanite said, it is great that we can have such discussions within the council, even though I do wish the anti-declaration side had won, but that's in the past.
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