Bluewolf wrote:This may of been a very bad mistake but I don't see the situation in Empyrean City holding up much longer. I'd ask that some sort of refugee camp would be provided somewhere close by so we can get people who want to move out. I have doubts on how long it will take before total violence spills out and people start dying en masse.
The best option is that island chain nation near Misteria, Langley, Van Halstoff Territory (Cascadian/UPR), and al-Itani in Veleria. Maybe Tanvarika (hrm, Czech, that brings to mind something....).
Alternatively, we get the leadership of the new regime to agree to publicly pledging to permit emigration and to not persecuting the people trapped in the city, which should reduce the desire to flee to acceptable levels.
Frankly the airlifts and such are a stop-gap, there's no way to get a city of 1.5 million people evacuated entirely in any feasible stretch of time or cost (since, well, where would they go afterward and how would they be supported?). I suspect as much as two-thirds will choose to stay if the Communists pledge to open emigration and non-persecution, alternatively of course is the pretty-unacceptable alternative of backing the Republican forces against the Communists and trying to defeat their revolution militarily or at least suppressing it so that the fair-weather supporters fall away from it, inviting as it does the prospect of a long, costly, and bloody occupation, hostility overt and covert from the UCSR, and the risk of the situation escalating.
Currently Cascadia's approach (the PacUnion doesn't exist yet) is strictly one of trying to cease the problem with diplomacy, convincing the new regime to back off and permit evacuation of die-hards while using promises and pledges to reduce the numbers of those wanting to flee (and, of course, asking President Shady to intercede with the regime and support such measures).
I am not sure what the other CATO guys could say to that but I have no objection of it being public.
