The Netherlands would get it's lakes back. 'Cause we all know Finland steals everybody's lakes.

How's Special Advisor to the President sound? Really you can be anything you want, because everyone's giving opinions on everything lately regardless of their positions. In the beginning I aimed at making this more RP-like, but the way we're doing it is fine.

Loading up the game now. From what you guys have said, I plan on moving our covert ops into West Africa to begin the destabilization process. After that, I'll begin heavy diplomacy with Finland's friends to grant us a possible attack option. What would you guys say would be the best route to take, making everyone hate Mauritania? Or just being a general menace in the region, making everyone hate each other?

When everything's panned out a bit, we can see which way we would be better off going. When I was Burundi, I began by taking Rwanda, then during World War III which broke out of nowhere I moved into and conquered an empty India.

[Update]

March 21, 2004

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You'll see that we are most fortunate to have Mauritania suffering from a drought right now. And I looked up Finland's closest friends, and strangely, their closest friend is Sweden, who is also not an ally. All of NATO is very close to them, which may work in or against our favor. Since they are all NATO, they love us right now, which gives us a lot of room to do what we want, but they won't love us so much after this.

Their next closes friend is Russia, which I just finished signing a cultural exchange with. Sweden refused, but I feel it is more due to the financial upkeep of the treaty itself than its underlying principles. They won't harm us.

Yessssss...Destablization...anarchy! Then we come in and "Restore order and peace."
Oblivian is at hand!

Then we decide we wanna stay. :P

Since when did you become Megatron?

I concur. Charge up the loading ramp!

Flare was always Megatron, she just doesn't post much.

March 7, 2007

Okay, lots and lots of stuff...

-Our covert ops were successful in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, but not Guinea itself. Our agents there are feared captured, killed, or worse. Terrorism was also attempted all along the western contingent from Liberia to Sierra Lione. All failed, but our agents were able to get away without leaving a trace. All units were then given a thorough talking to and sentenced to one year of hard training.

-An idea popped into my head while sending agents to Finland to conduct some surveillance. Why not terrorize them and blame Mauritania? We could kill two birds with one stone, destabilize Finland and create more furor towards M. All three attempts were successful and Finland is now on a razor's edge of war. All that would be needed is a little coersion...perhaps by us if the time is right.

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-Because of all of these attacks, the western edge of Africa has just become a little more of a flashpoint. No activity as of yet, but I'm thinking that if we wait, it will come.

-Both Iraq and Syria announced plans to construct missile defense systems in the name of national security. Either they are very paranoid, or they know something we don't...

-We lost the '04 elections. -_- And no amount of reloads proved otherwise. I couldn't understand. We have nearly 80% approval and 90% stability. But, the public being as it is, I was forced to change our political system from two-party government to one-party to stay in power. The transition was surprisingly smooth and even proved beneficial to our economy.

-Speaking of the economy: Our's is absolutely booming due to our recent expansion of markets into China, Venezuela, and Canada. We have just celebrated the breach of the 101% resource mark and our unemployment rate has dropped from 18% to 13.3%. Per capita is around $30,000 and inflation is falling after our interest rate hit 20%. We still have a deficit, but it's manageable.

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-Put half our army (all of our ground forces) through rigorous training which improved them to 39th ranked in the world.

-Republicans won '04 elections in the U.S. The cremation of Iraq continues longer than anyone expected with the city of Basra being under heavy fire for almost four years now.

My plan now is to maybe continue a few more attacks in Finland, then move into an actual NATO country nearby to get them on our side when we finally move in.

Sound plan. Shall we prepare the insulting e-mail to Finland, and have it sent from a W. Africa E-mail service? :P [/joke]

13.3% unemployment? What the hell are we doing over there? It should be around 6% at most! Get that infrastructure going. Communications. Healthcare. Transport. Should help our economy quite a bit, increase efficiency, lower costs.

I guess in the military sector everything is rolling... I have some proposals for long-term strategy:

We currently have 2 primary strategic targets: Northern Europe and Western Africa. There is one thing those two have in common: Energy. Both are, unless I'm mistaken, major suppliers of oil and gas to much of the western world. Hell, IRL Nigeria gets 80% of its GDP from this, and I think a lot of other nations along Western Africa aren't far behind. Not to mention that besides producing a lot of their own oil, I think Sweden, Finland and Norway have a lot of pipelines ferrying oil from Russia to Western nations.

So my proposal is more or less: Set up an energy monopoly. If we get the Northern European countries (Codename: Santa) and Western Africa (Code name: Falco), maybe reach into the middle east when our Navy and covert is better we can gain major control over what oil goes where without needing huge and expensive armies or even antagonizing the NATO too much. A lot of our work can be done through covert means or by diplomacy and in the end we come out with outposts all over the world and an excellent bargaining position when trading. We'll see whether the NATO gets pissy about Norway if they're dependent on us for energy.

So, what do you say?

And special presidential advisor sounds awesome. Do I get sunglasses and appear omniously at meeting? Do I get to make veiled threats?

Have we managed to set up a trade agreement with Egypt yet? They are one of the largest agriculture producers in Africa and they are also the most stable and powerful nation in that crap-pile of a continent.

All said it'd be a lot cheaper to ship food from them then to move it from China or the Americas. Also it gets supplies out of an area that we're going to be turning into a war-zone soon.

I encourage this. But only because then I can be suspicious of you and have guys tailing you and maybe order your assassination.