Aria Jenneth
Caldari
Ghost Festival
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Posted - 2008.02.11 03:21:00 -
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It's telling that you include pragmatists on your list of elements to be overcome, Mr. Creed. As a general rule, we pragmatists are pragmatists because we are more interested in what actually works than in the doomed idealistic gestures the Gallente seem to have such a taste for.
On that note, a few observations on effects of the above doctrine as it applies to two Empire neighbors:
The Caldari State: at absolute minimum, this doctrine will result in unceasing finger-waving at Caldari dignitaries by the Gallente. Considering that the Caldari as a people have very little patience for being told what to do, this is going to go humorously badly on a lot of occasions, and will strain relations over time by a very great degree. We already think the Gallente are meddlers; making an actual doctrine out of it just confirms us in what we already believe of them. Unfortunately, this belief is the cause of a lot of the existing animosity between State and Federation. This will not decrease.
The Amarr Empire: considering that the Empire violates multiple principles (perhaps I should say "demands") in the doctrine as a matter of course, and because these violations are deeply ingrained in the Amarrian culture and unlikely to be ended just through talk and finger-waving, it seems as though this relationship will very quickly move past the "diplomatic" stage. An embargo will only work if it extends to the Caldari as well, since the State will be only too eager to act as a middle-man between Federation and Empire.
If the State, too, is embargoed, you can expect diplomatic relations to disintegrate further. Between them, the State and Empire comprise both the largest economy and largest population in the cluster; it's unlikely that they'll suffer more than the pairing of the Republic and the Federation.
Furthermore, covert military efforts will prove insufficient to bring an end to the practice of slavery in the Empire. What's more, overt military operations by the Gallente against either the State or the Empire would tend to trigger both nation's pride. Mutually assured destruction will only prove dissuasive so long as destruction is indeed mutually insured, and even now there are a great many who believe that it is anything but. Between the Caldari and the Amarr, the Gallente would be risking war with both the most powerful fleet in the cluster and the largest.
End result?
Policy suggestion: keep your blasted culture to yourselves.
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