Treaty Between TNI and TSP

[Charles I. Cerebella]

My apologies for my delay in responding to this thread, essays have been dominating my time recently. For those of you who don't know me I'm one of those 'devil-tongued shit-disturbers' from TNI and happen to be the one in charge of their foreign policy and second-in-command of their military. First I'd like to request that the Chair formally warns Unibot about his language. It is highly offensive and comes from someone with no first-hand experience of what is as rich and diverse a community as any other in NS.Let me begin properly by explaining some of the reasons I proposed this treaty to Hileville. I've been TNI's ambassador here for about two years now and during that time have grown to really like this place. That is why I applied for citizenship here a few months back and though due to my university work I've not been overly active I've really enjoyed it here. I proposed the treaty because I want TNI to build up a positive relationship with regions like TSP. I don't want TNI's foreign policy to be solely based on a raider-defender basis and this is evidence of this. Furthermore this treaty is based on the one TNI already has with Lazarus, with whom TNI has had a long and constructive friendship. I would like to replicate that here.The South Pacific and TNI have a history of cooperation even without any kind of treaty relationship. Despite Unibot's accusations, TNI never helped Sedge and never even considered it. Our primary concern was to help SB, as has already been said. This treaty is not an attempt to divide the feeders or in any way try and draw TSP into the war with the FRA. There is no reference to it in the treaty, it was never mentioned in the negotiations and I have no intention of trying to enlist TSP's active support; it would be a rather stupid move given the mixed nature of our citizenry here and would not be based on a community of interests which all cooperation needs to rely on. Let me emphasize one thing in particular, TSP need not sign this out of fear. TNI will not take military action against TSP regardless of whether this treaty is signed or not. In fact even if it isn't signed you can be assured that our assistance would be forthcoming should another coup attempt be made. I'd also like to stress TNI isn't a narrowly defined 'raider' region. She never has and never will see founderless regions as just regions with a target painted on. We define ourselves as imperialists which means our military actions and dictated by foreign policy considerations. Whereas some regions and organisations will raid any founderless region, we don't. For example, when Grand Central's delegate got deleted we deployed straight away to help protect our allies and friends in the transition to their new official one, i.e. we defended it. All of that is a rather round about way of explaining that there are zero reasons why TNI would deploy hostilely against TSP. If there were any this treaty wouldn't be before us attempting to try and strengthen and broaden our ties. I feel this treaty is a positive step for both regions. There is little to lose and a lot to gain in both regions broadening the basis of our relations. The treaty doesn't tie TSP to anything more onerous than providing assistance if the direct security of TNI is threatened, a contingency unlikely to happen, or sharing intelligence over security which I'd like to think both regions would do anyway given our past cooperation. Yet the treaty lays the foundations of what can hopefully be something much wider than merely a military-intelligence relationship. By recognising formally our friendship I hope this treaty can provide the framework for our cooperation in other spheres such as in terms of culture and activity. That turned out a longer post than was originally intended so my apologies. I hope I have addressed the concerns of the people unsure of the merits of this treaty and if I hadn't I am happy to talk through it further either here or by PM or however. ^_^