Intergalactic Summit

You are most welcome, kind sir.
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My loyalty belongs to The Federation and the pillars of freedom and justice, not to any Politician or Political Bloc.

I find it difficult to believe one could be threatened by anyone so lacking in any real authority, talent, ability, or personal charisma that they're reduced to angry rants filled with incoherent logic, empty posturing, and laughable bravura in public as cover for their own gross inadequacies to the point they actually manage the feat of being a living parody and caricature of a human being.

Do you seek to wage war against the figments of your own imagination, now?

I suppose sacrificing our dearest Gariushi-haan to one of your 'rogue' admirals and still having the fortitude to choose peace over war is not enough of a sacrifice? If only you had the slightest clue how much our choice to do that has been lambasted by the other Seven. We sacrificed much for that, for an end to the horrible desecration of our homeworld. Heth may have been willing to sear the surface of Home clean of all life in a tantrum, but we are not. You may think it is some easy choice for us to curl up on the same planet as you, but it is not. We suffer daily for it, but we do so because Otro Gariushi gave his life for it.

Do not be so quick to cast aside the Caldari people as a hate-filled warmongering race of sociopaths. We have honor, even if it escapes your individualistic comprehension.

We remember the man you killed, and we will suffer peace with you because it was his dying wish.

If you haven't figured it out yet... Kim stands alone. There isn't a one of us with two brain cells to rub together who supports her in any way.

Except maybe any remaining Dragonaurs. Please, kill all of those that you want... With blessings and smiles from this side of the line.

Do us all a favor on both sides, and make the same distinction that those of us with sense do between the frothing extremists, and people who don't have their heads buried somewhere in Reality Substitute 1.0.

I am now convinced that IQ's have dropped sharply...

Can someone actually explain how, by vociferously proclaiming that peace is not possible (after Ishukone, the Deksam that was, by far, the most affected by the murderous betrayal of a FEDERATION Admiral, came forth of their own accord to propose a settlement over Caldari Prime), and urging an escalation of the current war, which has accomplished exactly NOTHING LASTING for five years, will suddenly bring about everything that one side (and only that one side) desires?

As a friend of mine is fond of saying, "Propaganda makes for notoriously poor body armor.", a fact that proves itself time and again when all of the 'rah rah' in soapbox sessions like this actually come under fire... And nothing changes. More cogs in the machine, grinding away loudly as history goes and makes itself on the backs of those who endure true sacrifice. If you don't know what that is, go fly to Malkalen and see the mass grave of hundreds of thousands killed in cold blood, without rhyme or reason, by a man pushing his own agenda above all else.

It must be that much vaunted 'militia bravery' that I've heard of at work here, spreading one narrow vision of freedom, whose price to be heard will be paid by the lives of other people, and the lives of their sons and daughters, in the name of your brand of justice... While you, the messiah's of your own cause, come back time and again, never to make the final offering on the altar of your vision of what the Federation stands for.

This is where I usually urge someone to stop and think... But to do that, you'd have to actually think. Something that is becoming alarmingly rare in a nation that is supposedly founded on the principles of intelligent thought over brute force.

Peace with the Federation will remain an elusive dream when it is forgotten that men such as President Roden and Mentas Blaque created both their fortunes and their political careers in the Cold War climate where over a century of policies aimed at the military and economic containment of the Caldari State and the propagation of the perception that the Caldari are enemies through the use of media propaganda lead to an escalating arms race that strengthened the Federal Military-Industrial complex at taxpayer expense and the politics of nationalism, partisan patriotism, and the expansion of Federal government and control with the rationale and justification to combat the threat of the State.

Is the Caldari State a threat to the Federation? It is, but only to its businesses and corporations as direct competitors and it has always been those Federal companies that have had the vested interest to negate the threat posed by Caldari corporations. To deny the power and influence of Federal companies is to deny the power and influence of their lobbyists over the political process in the Federation, their control of capital and financial instruments, their ability to sway public opinions through the media apparatus they own, or the nature in which wealthy business leaders become politicians or the reverse in which politicians become wealthy business leaders to create the Federal oligarchy of its privileged, rich, elite.

The true dynamics of the present conflict thus remain the same as the initial conflict between the State and Federation: competing economic and corporate interests. The War of Independence was fought by the Caldari State due to a refusal to be forced to remain in an unequal economic and political framework that became apparent would be subverted and controlled by Gallentean companies to serve their own interests to the detriment of Caldari corporate autonomy and independence that its workers had enjoyed for centuries - even going so far as seeking to deny the right to Caldari self-determination in order to ensure servitude. However, the present conflict differs in that it directly benefits the Federal Military Industries that were created during the War of Independence and which require enemies - real or imagined - in order to survive in addition to those Cold Warriors who have built their careers and livelihoods fighting those enemies.

Now those companies lead by men such as Roden and those politicians such as Blaque have the war they have always wanted and the question remains if it is the war the citizens of the Federation truly wish to continue fighting.

Such is the nature of arms races, yes.

Former President Foiritain and Gariushi-haan once sought to discuss the limitation of such a race between the State and Federation, but history became what it is and one is now deceased and the other deposed by the Federal military industry under current President Roden.

The payment of reparations to the Federation for a war fought as a just cause towards corporate autonomy and the self-determination of the Caldari people is probably a bridge too far to cross for the CEP especially considering the State never lost the war for independence achieved only at great expense of both blood and sacrifice.

I'm suggesting this less as an admission of wrongs that need to be redressed and more as a new sacrifice for the Caldari peoples that balances the one the Federation would need to make. Reciprocity.

We are just as capable of enduring the undendurable as our ancestors and, at the end of the day, the cost should be measured not against any moral outrage, but against the reality of Home and it's value to our people.