Dáil Éireann

Boudicca: There are two articles detailing why we do not want Cork, heres the standing orders: www.erepublik.com/en/article/-dod-instructions-for-future-rws-2279638/1/20 - All Irish MU Commanders were informed, including yours and all political party leaders aswell. I've been re-shouting the article every time there was a RW in Cork - I was also the one giving orders to BiedneyMis to secure the UK side, as did I, because a couple of Irishmen were still not getting the message. 

But I will bullet point the reasons for the setup with Cork:

• Danger of Spain gaining a border - signing CoT MPPs can be seen as a declaration of allegiance, if TWO HQs targets Ireland for any CoT MPPs, it will be Spain who will be sent.
  
• UK will honour the NAP, but Spain has no reason too; they are bored and a strong TWO nations with no real enemy.
• If Spain were to attack, UK would need to let go of Shannon to allow them to hit us, that will ruffle feathers but UK will give in and then have no reason not to reengage with us with full TWO backing.
• If Spain attacked, we would not be able to beat them in a MPP battle, as TWO has superior local damage but we could beat them in a mobile battle in a Cork RW by fighting on the UK side and not allowing them to get a border.
• Are you willing gamble our sovereignty over a single region? Spain is a likely invader, our set up gives the best odds of succeeding in defending an attack within game mechanisms.

Again, misplaced patriotism will be the death of us. Using game mechanisms to our advantage is how we managed to stay on the map through the years of facing a stronger enemy and alliance, and that is an underappreciated fact; the bubble of fantasy some in the country have weaven around the peace deal is more dangerous than the British. I've been MoD countless time while the British were enjoying dominance in MPP battles due to their alliance choice, my experience from that: if you can't present a strategy backed by game mechanisms, then its a useless strategy - "Winning" is an objective, the means aren't as straight forward as "free Ireland".