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Thalmor

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  1. The Libertarian (the party that's fiscally conservative but socially progressive) candidate. Yes, the United States has a 3rd political party...And a 4th (Green), and 5th (Socialist), and a few others that hardly anybody knows about because the Republicans and Democrats have a wicked monopoly on the United States political system.
  2. Why is Captain Vietnam and Ibraham on the list? They've both been banned and thus haven't posted in a long while.
  3. Foundational to the legitimacy of a nation is it's ability and willingness to defend itself. Seeing Athretvari pass regulations like this sends a message that they're a player on the world stage, and that's commendable.
  4. Khevin does control the Suez Canal. If any Meonesian ships pass through there, and Khevinist officials don't want them there, I don't see how it's that bad. It would actually probably be a good thing because the Meonesian government is being stupid (not Altim Atae, the others) and so having a few Meonesian merchant ships ''change hands'' will probably be enough to get them to learn from their mistake and to be more careful in the future.
  5. Because you're the nicest world leader ever and because you've done literally nothing wrong in terms of geopolitics, seeing you be passive-aggressive is just absolutely adorable.
  6. I have taken over the two southern-most provinces of the Iberian Peninsula. I'd like for the map to be updated to reflect this, please. Also, just so people know, the map itself is the map for a game called Victoria II, which is a grand strategy game created by Paradox Interactive- the same company that made Crusaders Kings II, Europe Universalis IV, and Hearts of Iron III.
  7. Why, The Kingdom of The Evenstar would be honored to open a new Embassy! By the time you see this, you should have a message in your inbox discussing additional details about such an arrangement.
  8. The armaments used by the Artillery Regiments, which are specifically the same guns that will be stationed by the Strait, can fire munitions miles into the African continent from where they're located. In doing what we did, we can now regulate whose ships comes through the Straits. Therefore, we control the Strait, even though we only have physical presence on one side. Does that answer your question?
  9. All this does is further the need for global regulation on magic!
  10. One of the biggest holes in national security for The Evenstar is our lack of a navy. While the Royal Evenstar Military has the ships and land facilities to support the Transports Fleets for overseas troop movements, we have no dedicated warships (nor the military infrastructure to build and support them). So, in the interest of nation security, on April 15th, 2004, the 1st and 2nd Marine Regiments were mobilized to secure the two most southern provinces of the Iberian Peninsula (image may be hard to see): These areas will not be formerly incorporated into The Evenstar, and will be placed under military jurisdiction. As such, the Gibraltarian Military Police will be an established army corp to police it. It should be noted that although two entire (neutral) provinces have been officially annexed, only the coastline will be paid attention to. With regards to the area beyond the coast, local officials will be given control to do as they please so as long as their communities pay a 2% tax of their community's total income. As for the coastline, the 1st Artillery Regiment will spend the next month establishing permanent firing zones and redoubts in order to attack ships coming through the Strait of Gibraltar that may pose a threat to national security. That is the main purpose of this action. Additionally, three different air bases will be established. Although they will be for military purposes, civilian craft will also have free reign of them. That is all for right now.
  11. Yes Humanity, as in man in his natural state, is naturally against God and the will of God.
  12. I would've hoped, that you, out of all people, would've known I was being ironic.
  13. ''We should just make a Socialist Dictatorship and make Bernie the President.'' So you just want to throw away the constitution (dictatorship) and core American values (socialist)? Seeing how radical these Bernie supporters can be, I'm not sure if I can support Sanders or not. I think I will look and see what Hillary Clinton has to offer...
  14. So let's say you do wipe out all of Tokyo, or any other large city. Let's say nobody escapes, and there are millions of bodies in the street. How do you deal with the internal dissent from such a atrocity, the foreign condemnation that will be brutal, and how do you think the population of the victim country will respond? I mean, the intentional slaughter of civilians, even in limited circumstances, is viewed abhorrently. And, now, here you have it being done on an industrial scale intentionally.
  15. There would be warning ahead of time, so many people would try to flee anyways. For an entire city and it's hypothetical 10 million people to NOT escape, it would require the opposing force to completely encircle the city and to control the airspace. Accomplishing both of those tasks would be difficult. The Raping of Nanking lasted about a month, and then they only killed 300,000 people. You have absolutely 0 understanding of military tactics. A force of irregulars using guerilla tactics would be a headache for any force that was already engaged against the regulars on another country. That's just a simple fact that the Vietnam and Afghanistan/Iraqi occupations have shown. Tanks aren't that great, either. You really overestimate them. Any sensible military will pair their tanks with infantry- especially in an urban zone. Tanks, if just by themselves, aren't that effective against a tirade of infantry. As for heavy artillery, those need coordination, intelligence, and logistics for effective use (and protection by infantry). They're not that good by themselves. As for bombers, you cannot win a battle with just air force. Bombers will inflict a lot of damage and causalities, but eventually the defenders will go underground or develop/utilize countermeasures. I employ any modern nation to invade the ma- ... Okay... But, yeah, I employ any modern military to invade the mainland United States. To do so, you'd have to breach the United States Navy and Airforce (not to mention our collection of confused lifeguards we call the Coast Guard). Following that, you'd have to withstand counterattacks to form a proper zone of control to safely deploy personnel and material to in order to support a ground operation. Then you'd have to fight through the millions of United States Armed Forces personnel that are currently enlisted, in the reserves, or that would enlist if we were invaded. Then, you'd have to withstand the millions of militia and volunteers that would proudly mobilize in defense of their homes, state, or nation. Good luck! As I sorta mentioned, the Raping of Nanking would if that bill pretty well.
  16. I dunno who you are to talk, considering you don't even have a nation.
  17. Following recent economic developments, I am pleased to announce that Sweden and The Evenstar are now allies. >inb4 I secretly orchestrated Zafrizackery's death to make this happen.
  18. Honestly, it's full of junkies and white trash. It probably should be wiped off the map. :/
  19. Okay, so despite the ridiculous shortness and lack of context of the OP, this can actually be a fun one. Bear with me, though, because it's a long one. A story that I've always wanted to write would be a first-hand account of an anti-government militiaman, turn officer, in a hypothetical Second American Civil War (although it's not so hypothetical now that the Texan Republican Party is wanting to secede and could possibly take a few other states with it). In this scenario, most of the fighting occurs between the United State Military and pro-government militias against various rebel militias and military deserters in the northeast (where the government is most concentrated), Texas (where the heart of the rebellion is located), and California (simply due to it's large population). Eventually, the rebellion organizes a full fledged army, and begin their first major campaigns in Kentucky (no bias here) to seize the South to tip the balance in their favor. After Kentucky is liberated, the protagonist of the story goes on to become a Major General, and leads a 1,500-man force to take over Lafollete/Jacksboro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaFollette,_Tennessee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksboro,_Tennessee These two cities are picked because I visited them a lot a few years ago when I went with my mother to her out-of-state workplace over the summer or Fall/Spring/Christmas break. As such, I'm very familiar with them (and the mountain terrain makes for some interesting, well terrain, for combat situations). Going into Lafollette the normal way, you pass by an opening in the treeline by the side of the road on the highway that puts a large section of one of those two cities in view. In the story, the protagonist orders his artillery batteries to set up where the opening in the treeline is, and having help from an anti-government militia inside the city, the artillery batteries attack government structures (because Lafollette/Jacksboro has a loyalist government) and Tennessee State Guard positions. The end result is that the anti-government forces swarm into the two cities and force the pro-government forces to surrender due to the speed and strength of the unexpected attack (greatly helped by accurate artillery attacks, of course). Now, in the story, there was a lot of factors in favor of the attackers regarding the artillery: They had good intel, there was no pressure or rush, the artillery could clearly see their targets even without coordinates, the weather was cooperative, and the enemy had no air support nor artillery of their own. In a real world situation in which mass artillery is used, it's unlikely that the factors would be so stacked like that. So what happens is that the possibly for civilian causalities goes up for one reason or another. Lafollette/Jacksboro does not have a large population, and it's quite spread out. There was also only a handful of batteries used in the shelling. So, naturally, if one or both of those factories increase, then so do the number of civilian causalities. So, to answer the OP plainly, it would be a war crime. That being said, In this scenario presented in this post, I wouldn't mind ordering the shelling of a metropolitan area if there was an abundance of enemy personnel or war materials that needed to be taken out. Collateral damage will always be a part of warfare. However, there is a line in which civilian causalities and ethics do overtake strategy, and so the situation OP presents in very particular. Just for fun, I'm also going to present pictures of the area I'm talking about. I think the first picture may actually be the area in the treeline I was talking about, but I could be wrong. The second picture gives a better view of just how in the country the city actually is (when I was there, you'd frequently hear coyotes making all sorts of noise). The location in the second picture is also very close to where the house is I lived in whenever I was down there. I can tell because you can see the airport on the left, and the airport was very close to where I lived (enough so that we regularly had low flying planes pass over our house during takeoff, and we'd see the airport lights forming pillars of light at night like the lights at drive-ins).
  20. I don't think Texan independence is important enough to many Texans that they'll fight an insurgency over it. Regardless, considering that Texas is rightful American soil, I think the lives lost in such a counter-insurgency would be worth it.
  21. Nope, the soldier count is separate from population. You could have 10,000,000 soldiers die, replace them, have them die again, and your population would still remain the same.
  22. I'm afraid to report that Matterswork has been hit by a 12-foot tsunami. The confirmed deathtoll has reached 34, and there are 116 reports of missing persons.
  23. That's what I thought may happen to. All the more reason why if Texas does secede, the United States should use their full military to restore order.
  24. The international community should come together to decide what to do about these users of magic all across Orbis. The misuse of magic, particularly when used violently, as already shown it's destructive potential.
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