The Sword and Sheild
24-01-2004, 05:46
With the general elections upcoming, this is turning into one of the most heated and vengeful races of any before it. Most recently however both major parties have suffered huge setbacks due to a simple 390 page book, entitled "The Guns of October" referring to the starting month of the Second Tortugan War. In the book, the author, R.M. Efells, analyzes the Second Tortugan War, and it's impact on the future, specifically as a catalyst for the even more destructive Third Imperial Tortugan War and Imperial Canadian War. He directly blames the government for being far too willing to commit Federal soldiers to the aid of the Republic of Canadian Princes in the S.T.W. which led to the deaths of more then 18,000,000 soldiers (Total casualties of all combatants).
He cites that had the Federal Exp. Force not arrived when it did, and stopped the advance of the Tortugans against the disarrayed and routed Canadians, then Canadian Princes would have fallen, Tortuga would have demanded some economic reparations for the war, and possibly limited CP's military, however there would never have been a 7-year long stalemate in CP, no great offensives being utterly cut down before lines of defenders, no great "Meat Grinder", and more importantly, Tortuga would not have been thrown into chaos as they were after the harsh terms of the Peace Treaty that ended the S.T.W.
He blatantly states that those who died in Defense of CP, died for nothing, the Republic had absolutely no commitment to defend CP, and that the world would have been a far better place had Tortuga won instead of CP, sparing the nations of the Third Tortugan War and the Imperial Canadian War, and saving the Republic from massive war debt and a huge gap in their population.
This comes hot on the heels of the Government beginning to get involved in international crises, specifically the huge expansion of the Navy, and taking a slanted neutrality in the Russian Forces-Automagfreek Conflict. Is the Republic on it's way to a repeat of the Second Tortugan War, will millions of young men be marched off like so many lambs to the slaughter, to die in the stinking huts of a foreign land, far away from warmth, family, friends, and civilization. With both the Popular Front party and Conservative Labor party pushing for a more interventionalist form of foreign relations, will this epic change of the winds of public opinion propel a third party to the center stage? Only time will tell, with the elections inching closer and closer each day, the Republic could be in for it's biggest change in government since the CL Party's ousting of the Popular Front, and one that will make that switch look like a minor gust of wind.
He cites that had the Federal Exp. Force not arrived when it did, and stopped the advance of the Tortugans against the disarrayed and routed Canadians, then Canadian Princes would have fallen, Tortuga would have demanded some economic reparations for the war, and possibly limited CP's military, however there would never have been a 7-year long stalemate in CP, no great offensives being utterly cut down before lines of defenders, no great "Meat Grinder", and more importantly, Tortuga would not have been thrown into chaos as they were after the harsh terms of the Peace Treaty that ended the S.T.W.
He blatantly states that those who died in Defense of CP, died for nothing, the Republic had absolutely no commitment to defend CP, and that the world would have been a far better place had Tortuga won instead of CP, sparing the nations of the Third Tortugan War and the Imperial Canadian War, and saving the Republic from massive war debt and a huge gap in their population.
This comes hot on the heels of the Government beginning to get involved in international crises, specifically the huge expansion of the Navy, and taking a slanted neutrality in the Russian Forces-Automagfreek Conflict. Is the Republic on it's way to a repeat of the Second Tortugan War, will millions of young men be marched off like so many lambs to the slaughter, to die in the stinking huts of a foreign land, far away from warmth, family, friends, and civilization. With both the Popular Front party and Conservative Labor party pushing for a more interventionalist form of foreign relations, will this epic change of the winds of public opinion propel a third party to the center stage? Only time will tell, with the elections inching closer and closer each day, the Republic could be in for it's biggest change in government since the CL Party's ousting of the Popular Front, and one that will make that switch look like a minor gust of wind.