Intergalactic Summit

I would be one of the better diplomats within the cluster Val. We both know I can take out the trash by soft reason or a big stick, and have those I train return home with a smile. The militia can like it or not, but our nullsec fleets are the best thing for them and our efforts have helped more new Tribal pilots learn about combat than most minmil alliances combined. Mostly, because we don't run from uncertainty instead, 2lc challenge it and ourselves in leadership roles.

Doing it wrong and doing it differently with less effort are two different things.

"Diplomat", in the modern era, simply means the person who is designated to yell at, or be yelled at by, other corporations or alliances.

Skills such as politeness, or knowing when to say things, or when not to say things, are a bonus, but not strictly necessary for the role.

Hurr.

i think the style of negotiation that invovles telling pilots to kill other pilots certainly has merit and in this style of diplomacy Kalo Askold is certainly well versed. It probably isn't the best strategy to employ in some circumstances but so far the negotiations with Providence seem to be going very well.

Taking a hammer to a nut is definatly one way to achieve one's aims. But when your aims aren't even clear, sometimes I wonder what you're so worried about the nut for.

You say negotiations with Providence are going well. I assume by that you're saying you're having a great time shooting at our residents. But what are your aims? Using the loot for your SRP programme, getting vital experiance in combat? Those are noble goals for sure.

Allowing a sadistic monster to indulge in behaviour that will likely mean a never ending conflict between our peoples till we're all either dead or mad? That's less noble. Tell me, Valentina, do you let Kalo and Funk bleed their victims. Do you allow them to conduct rituals that involve torture? If so, I can only assume you allow it because "they're Amarr". Well, hate to break it to you but a lot of crews of ships don't give a damn about the Empire. They're not flying with us for our politics but our money. Sure you can justify they're helping the system, but as I said elsewhere in this thread there's plenty of opponants within Providence to the Empire and Operation Deliverance.

By allowing a few to go out of their way to do terrible things to us just further perpetuates a cycle. You take offense at how slaves are treated, and allow a blooder to do the dirty. We take offense you're allowing such things to happen, and we retaliate. Have you seen some of the things the Sabik do? I mean actually seen some of the stuff these monsters get up to? Even the ones that look docile will make you sick to your stomach, perhaps more so. I can send you some footage if you like.

You're playing with Fire and Death Valentina. They're not tools, at the core of Sabikism is empowerment of the self. I would hope and pray to God you don't get burned by the charges you happily unleash, but I'm all out of concern for you when you broke a good friend's heart. I could have respected you as an honourable opponant, now? Now I just feel a deep sense of pity.

When you're desperately trying to invent an end that justifies the means, the first step is to attribute the enemy with means and acts that are proportional. When PIE wants to pretend they have to fly with Blooders, they try to make it seem necessary by inventing a narrative where the TLF somehow manage to ravage planets or whatever else none of us can do. When these people want to justify the same, well... they went even further.

This shouldn't be a surprise, as it's been the standard tool for those with... unsavory associations they need to justify, for some time now.

I have no problem whatsoever seeing them do whatever they want in Providence, but it's just so silly to see all the mental acrobatics in play trying to make it something other than what it is. It's an odd thing to see this pathological need to appear justified and in the right while using any means they desire, without the slightest hint of honesty in it.

Pretend blood raiders pretend relevance. *yawn*