Aiden Valenkopf

[McNeo]

In SP all the houses were afraid to go to war against Rhineland.......let me put the analagy into real life. Britain would be afraid of going to war with Iraq (and wouldnt have done so without American help). Nato is still afraid to send more troops into Afganistan for reasons that are unknown to me.

Not that Rhineland are weak.......just that they are in economic turmoil atm and many disgruntled people have turned to piracy to make a living. The Rhineland police arent weak, just the pirates are much stronger.

This was a bit like the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR (CCCP for all you Russians out there)). Their spending on Military was soo large, that it ended the cold war. You wanna know why? Even though the Americans were spending just as much, they had a SOLID economy. Rhineland doesnt atm as the news suggests (ingame).

The reason for the Communist downfall was the combination of Eastern European revolts, Gorbachev's refusal to send in the Red Army to stabilise the situation, and, most of all, the American missile defence project "Star Wars".

though a defence project, "Star Wars" fueled fear in the USSR about their nukes being useless. They Dramatically increased spending (which they could never hope to keep up with) and Communism collapsed.

Edit: The Russians had a really big Military too but the difference here is that they were in a state of war (kind of).
Edit2: If Liberty was inRhinelands position in SP, I doubt that anything would be left for us to be flying in. In one of the rumours in SP, it says that Military spending for Liberty is based on fighting two of the three houses at once. Now all the other houses would be scared about that too.

Bit long winded analogy :D .......oops :laugh: