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Niccolò Machiavelli
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Angrim, would you be willing to forward a copy of that message to anyone that asked? I personally would be thrilled to be able to read the message that sparked this lengthy conversation.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger. - Niccolo Machiavelli
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Angrim
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Niccolò Machiavelli
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It seems to me that you two are interpreting the message in two different ways. The message was referenced on this thread as a means to illustrate the war involving The Colonists and Dark Blight, correct? You two are still disagreeing about the message, but; the message is still being used to advance your agenda in this thread. So, maybe you could post a copy of that message so those of us that are curious can form an opinion? |
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Rill
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Angrim has now forwarded the mail to me. It was a comment on Kale's poor taste in invoking the term "Manifest Destiny" in part of the TCol alliance banner. For those who are not familiar with the slogan, it was used to justify the extermination of Native Americans and oppression of others during U.S. western settlement.
I am not sure how my objection to someone using what to me is a poor historical example came to be interpreted as a call to arms. Angrim will have to clarify his thinking on that one.
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Angrim
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Nokigon
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And incidentally, dont twist my words- I said that kale wanted war and that he was a rarity on our side, although not unique. There were far more alliance leaders - again, nit all- who wanted war who were fighting with vcrow et al.
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Nokigon
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I think it's time for a secrets speech (and im not comparing the dominion to the USSR).
DB intended to implement a land claim some time ago. I even got to the level of mailing dittobite to tell him about my claim... But at thelast minute I chose to go about it in a different way. I just claimed the territory by covering it with DB cities. TCol intended to do something similar- their land claim was fairly irrelevant by the start of the war as they had covered the whole area in cities anyway. The point of the above is to illustrate that the land claim no longer mattered especially to kale anymore. He had effectively fully implemented it by this point, so would have been fully prepared to give up the claim if offered something in return. The dominion originally wanted the crowfed to be our allies, for no reason other than geography. We were prepared to give as well as take for this. So essentially... The dominion wanted to be allies with the crowfed and would have given up the land claim for this. Your passive antagonisation, a contradiction in terms btw, eliminated this possibility. Such is life. |
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Praetor Nistiner
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U had an advantage because it was numerous ammounts of alliances against Tcol, Its not like Ncrow fought Tcol alone if that was the case im pretty sure Tcol Would have won, so your OPINION on being spread out is more advantageous is just funny.
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Deranzin
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Maybe, but here we are talking about on how the problem was created in the first place and not the validity of any solution ...
Well Rill it is not me or anyone else who brought up Ryelle in this conversation, but you yourself, so I do not see your point ... of what "persistent effort" are you talking about, when you run into this topic full speed to make many posts and bring the matter .?.
It certainly is possible, but this is not how this story seems to be unfolding ...
I happen to disagree with many people and on many matter(though this is not news ), but I do not poke them with settlements, nor provoke them to fights over things that are none of my business ...
Yeah, but anyone would note that if you really preferred to NOT read it this way, you wouldn't have mentioned it ... In any case, regardless what Kale perceived, what would have been your problem in leaving him alone to his perceptions .?. What exactly was your issue and you had to provoke things with a deliberate settlement .?.
So what .?. Did Kale and anyone for that matter have any obligation to follow your approach .?.
Quite the opposite ... the amount of destroyed cities and accounts outside centralized hubs bear witness on how wrong you were ...
Why are you speaking of Ryelle in the third person .?. it was your alt, not another person ...
Well, reading up this topic the answers to these questions are quite easy, but I'd rather not share them ... who needs "persistent effort" when you are doing such a fine job on your own .?. |
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Just like a "before and after" ad ! ahahahaah :p |
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Rill
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Deranzin, I think Nokigon has made it clear that Kale was the one who saw war as a solution. I was on sabbatical from Illy when the war began (and for months beforehand), so persistent efforts to credit and/or blame me for the war don't really have much basis in reality.
I still haven't received a copy of the mail Angrim cited as proving his point; I remember sending all Crow rooks a mail alerting them to the situation, but I honestly don't recall what I said other than "heads up, there may be trouble." As I have said, Angrim and I had a difference of opinion about how to approach TCol's exclusive claim -- he believed accommodation was the best answer, I thought open and frank opposition was a better approach. I believed then and I believe now that it is possible to disagree with someone without desiring a war about it. In some ways I think the disagreement between Kale and me reflects differing philosophies about how to maintain a successful defensive posture in Illyriad. Kale's approach emphasized exclusive control of territory. It is possible that this was merely intended as a demonstration of power or sort of ego-driven quest for dominance, but I prefer not to read it that way. Rather, I think he perceived it as the best way to keep he and his alliance "safe" in a world that he perceived as dangerous. I think he believed that not having potential adversaries within a core region (everyone who was not Dominion being considered a potential adversary) and maintaining and demonstrating significant military strength was the best way to maintain and strengthen his alliance's position. I disagree with this approach. I think that living peacefully with a mixture of people -- even those with whom one might eventually have conflict -- is the soundest approach. The act of excluding folks with whom one might have conflict, in my view, tends to create more conflict than it avoids. I also believe that creating an exclusive area of control is not more successful as a military strategy than maintaining a fairly concentrated BUT NON-EXCLUSIVE distribution of cities. Personally I think that the results of the current conflict have if not vindicated at least tended to support my point of view. It has been demonstrated that maintaining exclusive control of a region does not imbue one with magical protection. Some might argue that this is merely because of the great odds, but those odds were significantly more even at the beginning of the war, and the result has been that those alliances that sought to maintain exclusive control of a region did not find that it provided them with a significant advantage over alliances with large concentrations of cities in neighboring regions that did NOT have exclusive control. Some might argue that by settling a city in the area claimed exclusively by TCol, Ryelle was imposing her view on Kale as much as Kale was attempting to impose his view on others. This concern was what ultimately made Ryelle choose to remove the city, even after Kale had agreed to let it stay. A lot of times in Illy (and probably real life too), honest disagreements about what is most effective and/or what is most ethical get lost in ego battles and personality conflicts. I am as subject to this rule as much as anyone, and I appreciate those who point out to me when I am falling victim to this problem. I do struggle with whether there might have been a more effective way to express my disagreement in this issue -- perhaps standing back and letting time do its work would have been better. And yet at the same time, if I passively waited for others to to act, would that necessarily produce a better result? Interesting questions, and ones I struggle with.
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