Not in game though.

 

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What's going on in Palestine?

I'm stopping the Israeli army from forcibly taking over Palestinean land, training the Palestinean army, rooting out Hamas, and establishing the state of Palestine.

 

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The military equipment of Hungary is for sale. If nobody speaks up that they want it in the next 8hrs (rl time), it will be sold to private owners. Which means everyone is going to get a nasty surprise when they start invading countries that should be extremely weak and easy to roll over.

Puerto Rico has been admitted into the Union as the 51st State.

 

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Retech-

The point is a large part of them are, the small amount that isn't is part of the balance of trade or by printing small amounts of money....its a fairly simple concept to grasp.

I thought I heard the statistic somewhere that 70% of oil consumption was imported.

 

Anyways Dusty, how large is the Israeli army? I might come along and help if someone else helps as well.

Retech, why don't you do what everyone else does and post a link...rather than making a random guess.

http://dunner99.blogspot.com/2006/05/how-much-oil-does-america-import.html

 

It is in the second paragraph. My guess wasn't too far off, 70% is from non domestic sources.

55% is from foreign sources at time of publication, which was 4 years ago.

Current figures are around 2/3rds so 66%

Now, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Mexico make up the top three sources of Oil.

Canada and Mexico are obvouisly prefered trading partners and buy mainly from the USA, so the balance of trade is good.

Arabia is good for another 20-30 years, and is a prefered trading partner, so that balance of trade is good too.

Japan, comparatively, has just appeared and seems to be offering a cheap fix to a massive problem, which just seems to be too good to be true. With a balance of trade which is entirely in Japan's interest.

 

(NB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_oil_politics )

 

So realistically America has little to gain from this trade deal with Japan, and a lot to lose.

Except that the United States could actually tax the oil a decent amount rather than the paltry 5% it does now. :)

 

Oh wellz, Japan maintains its interest rate on bonds which it owns. Japan controls about the same amount of debt as China.

I thought I heard the statistic somewhere that 70% of oil consumption was imported.

 

Anyways Dusty, how large is the Israeli army? I might come along and help if someone else helps as well.

176,500.

Israeli has really only been allowed to operate with impunity because it's been the US' butt-buddy in the Middle East, and so the US gets up in a fuss whenever someone buggers around with Israeli. But I doubt Sere gives a [cabbage], so now the UN is going in to stop Israeli because they're behaving like Nazis (oo delightful world plot twist).

 

Anyways. The UN I think is in with me, but we're not fighting Israeli. We're just stopping them from fighting with the Palestineans.

 

The SR has given the Palestinean army the following equipment (all equipment other than rifles coming from the former Hungarian army):

 

140,000 AK47s

200 BTR-80s (USSR APC)

40 T-72 Main Battle Tanks

20 82mm mortars

36 60mm mortars

3000 9M113 Konkurs (Anti-tank missiles)

10 Humvees

200 Mercedes-Benz Unimog (truck)

40 Mistrals (similar to Javelins - AA homing missiles)

12 2K12 Kub (mobile AA systems)

1 Frigate (naval)

2 Naval Helicopters

2 Corvettes (naval)

4 Saab JAS 39 Gripen (fighter jet)

1 Fighter Jet training plane

2 MiG-29s (fighter jet)

10 Mil Mi-24 (attk helo)

2,000 retrofitted technicals

 

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Significant incentives are also being offered to Hamas fighters willing to join the Palestinean army. The end goal is the same - the preservation of the Palestinean state - but joining gives them a much better chance.

 

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This entire operation is estimated to take around 8 years, and will cost the Slavic Republic around $12b (USD).

 

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Oh, and Japan is offered membership within FETA.

 

Oh, and picture representation of the SR's poltical standing:

Except that the United States could actually tax the oil a decent amount rather than the paltry 5% it does now

 

What a cunning plan "My fellow American. We have decided to raise taxs!"

Japan (the country, not the empire) accepts the offer to join FETA.

 

-Archi

 

The taxes would bring the cost of the algae fuel up to that of conventional gasoline, so Americans would not feel a thing.

Japan does not send troops in yet unless Israel sends in soldiers, but Japan warns Israel will be punished if it attacks the sovereign state of Palestine. It backs up the threat by moving 20,000 troops nearby, ready to react for any threat.

The SATU is being renamed SATO, the South Atlantic Treaty Organization. Panama is the Northernmost country, and it will likely stay that way.

A missile defense grid is being set up along the coastline, and naval production facilities are being set up, two per coastal country, with 5 in Brazil. The naval facilities will be done in 5, and the Missile defense in 6-7.

Japan asks if the Panama Canal remains open, as it did in 2009.

"My fellow Americans, we are changing all of our fuel to green Biodiesel. Anyone with Wikipedia(Everyone now that S-Net is online, though the new Paradigm Online is currently poaching a lot of its users due to more advanced graphics, tags and ect) can see we have raised taxes, oh, and now none of our oil is home produced. We are at the mercy of Japan, I hereby declare today to be Pearl Habour 2.0."

It'll stay open, there will just be an additional one as well.

Alright, thanks Doom.

 

-Archi

 

Could you imagine the irony if America became imperialistic and started taking over Europe? Then Japan would embargo oil to the United States, and then we end up with reverse Pearl Harbor. :thumbsup:

Dusty, where do you get the slider from HOI? I don't feel like actually downloading the game to do that, but it'd be beneficial for me if I were able to show how my country would look like on that spectrum.

Panama is on the opposite side of the world to India.

I think that he can still profit from it, with trading and whatnot.

Sere- Probably easier to use, just copy and paste the thing to move the slider.

 

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=180964

 

When I said: "Death Before Dishonour!", I meant it alphabetically.

In other news, everything is bigger in Texas. Everything.

 

Truck nuts sales are at an all-time high, despite the fact that everyone (except Texans, of course) thinks that truck nuts are stupid and somewhat obscene.

Sere- Probably easier to use, just copy and paste the thing to move the slider.

 

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=180964

 

When I said: "Death Before Dishonour!", I meant it alphabetically.

 

I'm daunting the learning curve in EU3, I need to set aside like...2 weeks to even get a rough grasp over what is going on. Idk if EU would be a better one, considering such ideas like 'democracy' aren't even represented.

 

Dusty, where do you get the slider from HOI? I don't feel like actually downloading the game to do that, but it'd be beneficial for me if I were able to show how my country would look like on that spectrum.

I just take one I found on google and edit it in MS Paint. This is the one I used:

Little bit of copy+paste, and flipping some images:

 

India decides to take part in the international effort and is sending 20,000 Indian soldiers to fight for the Palestinaen Army.

The Slavic Republic welcomes the help from India.

 

Japan does not send troops in yet unless Israel sends in soldiers, but Japan warns Israel will be punished if it attacks the sovereign state of Palestine. It backs up the threat by moving 20,000 troops nearby, ready to react for any threat.

Lol they've been sending in troops and forcibly evicting Palestinean families from their homes for the past 40 years.

[mod mode]

Neither the US nor the UK will take part in this intervention.

 

[game mode] [mod mode]

However, IRA activity does seem to pose a threat to our national interests. Hmm.

 

[mod mode]

British armed forces shot an IRA operative in the forehead earlier today during a hostage situation.

 

British armed forces have also flooded into North Ireland in order to flush IRA operatives out of NI.

OUR?

 

Sere if you going to use your position as mod to take control over the UK to add more flavour to the game, please make a distinction between when you're playing as moderator and when you're just playing [as the US].