Unfortunately, yes. Had you done it a week ago, nobody would have much cared. But the timing was bad. Beforehand, we had discussed Libertia, but we really didn't have any good ideas on what to do. But when the warlords started trying to court us, and Ramsley looked like he had a good shot at getting the OMSK to back him, that kind of forced our hand.Raj Ahten wrote:I thought I could get them in before a decision was made, especially after LoneStar's strikes in the North drawing very little ire. Turns out I was wrong.
He forced us into that discussion, which resulted in us deciding that international military action really wasn't the way to go down there. And during all of that, and the argument against the OMSK getting involved down there, you made your strike. It was simply bad timing on your part.
Notice what and where the objections are coming from: the MESS and FUN, who didn't want a foreign power backing a warlord, and were trying to talk Stas out of it. Byzantium, who is pursuing peace for it's own sake. And the Red Technocracy, who now has citizens down there.
As I said, I acknowledge the hostage rescue missions are a risk, and pretty dangerous. But we have little choice in that, since negotiating won't get us jack. We tried that with the Astorian crisis and they dumped a body out of the plane. With the police advisors, they never once contacted us for a ransom or any demands. So we had nobody to negotiate with. So the raids weren't the best option, no. But it was the only one we had, unless we were to abandon them. And we don't do that.
Your raids are problematic, for us, in that they're foreign soldiers employed by a warlord, attacking a rival warlord's facilities. Which presents a problem to the rest of us foreign powers since we're trying to implement an economic solution to the problem. You want to keep ProTec in there, advising Alexander and maybe preventing the formation of death squads, then you do so at your own risk and there's not much we can do to stop you. But just don't let them conduct raids on the other two factions.
As for Red Technocracy citizens, so long as your people aren't raiding in Ramsley's territory, it shouldn't be a problem. However, Stas, if RT citizens join Ramsley's forces on an attack against ProTec personnel and get killed because ProTec defended themselves, and you try to use that as a reason to go to war with Indhopal, we won't accept that. I can't speak for the FUN but I would hope they wouldn't accept it, either.
