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From: Premier Mehmed Selim.
Security Encryption: ABSOLUTE
Message transmitted to Lukas Keller.

Privyet.

I've already had my fair dose of dissension, intrigue, agitation and rousing from every color of mind under the sun except whatever color the Nomads are, so you'll have to forgive me in principle if not practice when my own seething emotions leak into this communique despite professional restraint. I know you would seethe similarly, if one of your long-time friends dialed you like you've just done me, and acted in the way you have.

You know as well as I that the situation never played entirely into our favor from the beginning, and the pragmatic policy of diplomacy has been a means to cover us in a way our ultimately limited firepower could never hope to achieve. Indeed, blood is something we have just as little of, and the more of it we can avoid spilling, the better off the People are in the end.

What you propose, of course, is nothing short of a certain two-syllable word I restrain myself from using. We can both agree that word isn't entirely accurate, in looser definitions. You have the People's interests and the ultimate vision in sight, yet I fear you've grown blind to the intermediary steps along the path to the United Humanity you have sworn to protect with the force of your tachyon cannons.

In doing so, a number of other domestic Comrades, including myself to no small degree, would feel you've taken a step or three beyond the reasonable foundation of the Coalition. I'd never have presumed in any year you of all people would appeal to tradition as a vehicle of revolutionary action when such is, well, traditionally (it's the best phrase for the job, let's admit) the crown jewel of reaction.

All of this comes to a head, though, and it isn't a head any ideological stance or allegiance or human principle can hope to lay a finger on, since it is all a revolution of actions and reactions like planets around the stars. I recognize force for the inescapable dilemma it is, real or imaginary, and again, just like physics, those forces push and pull their desired changes. God was apparently onto something amusing when he supposedly threw all those marbles into a jar.

There is a force of collaboration stirring within our present climate, and there is only one direction these winds will blow -- into the Omegas. Knowing its strength, I would ultimately hope to be behind it, rather than ahead of it as it builds into a storm capable of sweeping away what lies in its wake.

If that means making a compromise that differently minded people cannot stomach, well, it is ultimately their, and to that extent, your struggle to achieve some degree of acceptance, as that is something no outside influence can truly interfere with. If a blow against the state is truly your course, then I am obliged to deflect it with all the force at my disposal, so long as the state stands.

If it turns out your strength is enough to somehow withstand the inevitable surge, then, and only then, will your diktat be considered at length. If you feel disappointed in my present staying of the course, know your agitation has brought me the same in my view of you.


For the Motherland.

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Lukas, I am disappointed in your action.
If you think such an extreme act will change things, you're more than disillusioned - you have snapped for some reason I don't wish to know, but it's not too late to rethink your steps.

You say Selim is without strength, yet it is YOU who have not enough strength to pursue the People's greater good, Lukas. Do you think overriding the Duma, bringing the Army on Volgograd and coup the Premier will even have any beneficial effect for the People - the very same People YOU swore to protect? Not at all.

Let me tell you what will happen if you keep on your path: it will end exactly in the opposite way you think: you might 'wash clean the slate and everything on it', obtaining power in the process, but can you even think or see beyond your nose? You do well know that Bretonia - being weak - can be a target to wage war on, but as they say - a cornered beast is the most dangerous adversary. I fear that your deed will only bring death, bloodshed and sorrow to the People. The less we can spill comrade blood, the better off the Army will be.

I speak with reason: I have seen with my own hands what it means to see comrades spilling their blood for a noble cause. I was a Conseillard before - I grew fighting the Royalists in the civil war - you know that. But I have seen as well that acts like yours bring nowhere near your goal - on the other end, they only bring a wake of death behind them.

As Selim already said, while you do have the wellbeing and the interest of the People in your sight, which is commendable - you have grown blind and oblivious to the middle steps in protecting Humanity. And you swore to protect Humanity with your Tachyon cannons.
Now, you turn those same cannons toward the very same comrades that welcomed you.

I'll let you with this: were he here today, what would Ben Warner say about your action, Lukas? Think about it.
I personally think that even Warner himself would approve the current Premier's word.

DO YOU WANT TO JEOPARDIZE EVERY SINGLE COMRADE'S LIFE - BE IT MAN, WOMAN, CHILD - JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BRING THE ARMY TO WAR, KNOWING FULL WELL THE DANGERS IT WILL PRESENT TO OUR VERY HOMEWORLD?! DO YOU WANT JIANGXI AND VOLGOGRAD TURNED TO NOTHING ELSE BUT SMOLDERING RUINS!? DO YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE OUR GLORIOUS BANNER BURNING?!

I do not.
As long as I breathe, I will uphold my ultimate duty as a Comrade to protect the People from every threat, be it internal or external.
As long as I breathe, I will not allow you to take the Army down your deranged road.

- Michel De Grasse

===INCOMING MESSAGE===


From: Premier Mehmed Selim.
Security Encryption: ABSOLUTE
Message transmitted to Lukas Keller, Yu Mei.

Deputy Yu Mei. Deputy of what, I'm not quite sure, besides deputy of ranting.

Honestly, after the slandering contest you, de Grasse, and myself had in proximity of Freeport One, in range of unrelated guests, I think a little shouting is in order. Either way, your choice of audio equipment is probably the least of my concerns towards you or the group you have an affiliation to. If the only constructive criticism of the regime you have is the same as Keller's, then perhaps you should let him do all the talking, since it seems your viewpoint happens to be identical to his.

Keller.

I think you sorely underestimate both my personal strength and that of our neighbors. Your best, and that of the Coalition as a whole, is still worse than the onslaught of battlegroups that your presumed rivals could theoretically levy against them. Strategically, yes, we could bleed them dry, but not before we reach a point of fundamental annihilation. An overexposure to outside influence is the sort of risk that has to be taken to ensure the People -- and I mean the living breathing People, not merely just my typical propaganda -- wake up to their next day. When superior firepower and superior numbers are on the table, standing against it simply defies sensibility.

We need to adapt with our environment, and as it stands your inability to do so just leads to points we can keep addressing and counter-addressing until the end of time. You might want to detach the title of Field Marshal from your communications signature. At this rate, you won't be needing it.



For the Motherland.