Intergalactic Summit

The relationship between Federal Intaki and the Syndicate is... complicated. While most of us Federals may not approve of Queen Silphy's criminal endeavors, any actual attempt by other empires to invade Syndicate space would likely result in Federation Intaki petitioning the Federation to intervene.

*whispers* Racism!

Be honest, you saw a Deteis, heard the word 'sterilise' and a lot of you made your minds up right then and there...

Don't call me 'Shirley'.... Oh... wow... Way to screw up the joke, Fred...

You say this.....

Why does this sound like a scandal-in-progress?

The important point is that when Caldari practice humanitarian aid, we understand when we're wasting our efforts that could be more effectively spent elsewhere.

If you do all of that fish-related stuff that Chūjō Oniseki just described and the people you did it for still manage to starve to death, continuing to patiently go down there with a pole and the big-print animated-illustration version of "the child's guide to fishing" basically constitutes throwing good money after bad.

Humanitarian aid is an investment, after all. There's no good reason not to expect the beneficiaries to show that they've put it to good use.

As ever, I-RED are doing commendable work, and have my respect and admiration.

For decades the citizens of the Intaki Syndicate have remained the victims of a Federal foreign policy supported by consecutive government Administrations that tacitly condones the tactics of military intimidation and the threat of violence. One needs only look to Federal militarists and Gallentean nationalists such as Mentas Blaque whose Presidential campaign promises of, "Action" against the Intaki of the Syndicate was nothing more than a byword for direct military invasion. No doubt after such an invasion by the Federation into the Syndicate the survivors of the war would have been prime candidates for, "Domestic Naturalization," within, "Cultural Habitats" for a President Blaque where having been stripped of their political independence at the barrel of the gun they can learn the true meaning of Federal democracy through government-sponsored ethnic apartheid.

That Mentas Blaque lost the Presidential elections in YC 108 by only a small margin, remains indicative that the policies of military intervention and intimidation by the Federation against the free people of the Intaki Syndicate is a popular option not only of the Federal government but of its citizens. It is a tragic state of affairs when the Intaki of the Syndicate are to be persecuted by the Federation as terrorists and vilified as criminals when the only crime committed is to value independence and self-determination as a free people.

It is nothing more than arrogance to claim an entire people as criminals when it is the tools of economic sanctions and trade embargoes combined with the denial of planetary resources upon threat of war by the Federation against the Intaki Syndicate that would cause them to seek alternative means to their own survival. The Federation's dogs of war appear readily summoned to feast on the bones of an impoverished and weakened people denied the right to their own future prosperity. Ideals of freedom or democracy easily abandoned when the Intaki of the Syndicate freely and democratically decide they do not desire to comply with what the Federation deems to be its own self-interest at the expense of their own independence and autonomy.

I-RED and their allied partners in Project Dustbowl should be commended for their efforts in refusing to perpetuate the long years of injustices meted out by the Federation against the Intaki Syndicate through adherence to the Caldari traditions of fair, equitable, and honourable deals aimed at ensuring mutual advantage for all involved.

That Federalist apologists and partisan political provocateurs would use an announcement of the Project made in good faith and honest transparency as the opportunity to engage in attempts at scandal and smear is unfortunate, but perhaps unfortunately unsurprising.

Hevaima Gesakaarin
Well, it seems indeed that helping Intaki Syndicate means putting sticks into Federal wheels. But on other hand, are there guarantees, that I-RED won't just give it up to Federals? They already had precedent of working with enemy, why this work can't be done for Federals for their money, and just disguised to be as work for the State, because said Syndicate would totally whack federalists away? As you have noted, it is zone of interest for gallenteans, not the State.

But what is more important, that the State needs direct actions against the Federation. We have a war going on, and this alliance just does some shadow affairs in null security space, instead of working for the State, while saying a lot of words about "Caldari". They pull away for their petty needs peoples and resources, that can be used instead in the interests of the State to defend State property and territories.

Syndicate it, or independent colonists, doesn't really matter.
Whomever they help, but not Caldari.

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