02-22-2017, 02:00 AM
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Nyland Daily News
President outlines "enemies" ahead of foreign visits
By Wong Wei
Published: 20 Zechyr, 1582
President Kohout at his outdoor press conference on events in Caladria.
NYKOPING - President Kohout is slated to fly to Lanlania on the 28th for the first of many official overseas state visits, the first truly major foreign activity since his inauguration. Other countries on the list include Kortoa, Angiris, Severyane, Mordvania, and Florinthus, among others.
However, news of the planned visits was quickly overshadowed by the President's remarks in his press conference on the unfolding details of an apparent coup in the Mandavine Island nation of Caladria. After affirming that the Nylander Consulate in [] "is safe and secure, but still remains closed" and that the administration is "working closely" with Lanlania, Florinthus, and the Mandavine Community, the president quickly went on the verbal attack, directly placing blame for the coup on past presidents.
To quote the president:
President Kohout declined comment on the nature of Nyland's future involvement, his upcoming meetings with foreign leaders, or rumored plans for a large military expansion, saying only that these topics would be revealed "soon."
President outlines "enemies" ahead of foreign visits
By Wong Wei
Published: 20 Zechyr, 1582
President Kohout at his outdoor press conference on events in Caladria.
NYKOPING - President Kohout is slated to fly to Lanlania on the 28th for the first of many official overseas state visits, the first truly major foreign activity since his inauguration. Other countries on the list include Kortoa, Angiris, Severyane, Mordvania, and Florinthus, among others.
However, news of the planned visits was quickly overshadowed by the President's remarks in his press conference on the unfolding details of an apparent coup in the Mandavine Island nation of Caladria. After affirming that the Nylander Consulate in [] "is safe and secure, but still remains closed" and that the administration is "working closely" with Lanlania, Florinthus, and the Mandavine Community, the president quickly went on the verbal attack, directly placing blame for the coup on past presidents.
To quote the president:
Quote:"This coup in Caladria is just one more example in a decades-long erosion of the democratic order that has kept us at peace and kept Nylanders safe, an erosion that began with the destruction of Oslanburg, and allowed and enabled by the inaction and ineptitude of Presidents Karlsson and Harrow. Emboldened by our cowardice, Fascists and other tyrants again and again invaded country after country with weapons of fear and lies, and now Caladria is the latest potential victim in a long line of casualties in this war against democracy.
Like it or not, we are at war, but this isn't a war that can be won with a single show of force, like days of old. This is not a war with a state, it is one with a global ideological order that infiltrates democratic institutions to corrode us from within. This enemy cannot be debated, because it doesn't seek an understanding. This enemy can not be negotiated with, because it doesn't act in good faith and only seeks to subsume absolute power at the expense of all others. The only option is to crush this enemy, fully and absolutely.
This enemy is Fascism. Proper Fascism.
This Fascist enemy is not the same so-called "right-wing" or a "left-wing" phantom invented by your grandparents: these are not communists, because the Fascist does not value equality; these are not conservatives, because the Fascist does not value human dignity; these are not nationalists, because they do not love Nyland and what makes Nyland great, only the power that comes with ruling a nation as great as ours. Fascism doesn't care for liberty, or justice, or fairness because all these things, these things that are so intrinsically a part of our nation, cannot exist exist with Fascism, and Fascism cannot exist with them. Either we destroy Fascism, or Fascism destroys us.
Oh, I can hear it now, our enemies crying "oh President Kohout, I thought you Liberals were supposed to be the tolerant!' Yeah, we're supposed to be the smart ones, too, but we keep buying the 'tolerance' crap, all while our enemies grow stronger through our naivete. Make no mistake, fascists and tyrants cannot be debated. They are not to be debated, they are to be destroyed.
How do we fight such an enemy? We act. We rise from our slumber. We've tried inaction, and guess what: the world has grown more volatile through our inaction, and we've become weaker and less secure because of it. In this world our failed presidents of the past have created, the only path to security is the path of action. This nation will act.
Good and evil, right and wrong. These things are absolutes. Whoever fights to defend the dignity of his fellow man, whoever fights to free others from their oppression, he fights on the side of justice and righteousness; this is the side I stand on, the side Nyland was born and built to defend and uphold and if you do not stand on this side of righteousness then you stand with evil, with tyrants, with those who wish to steal your liberty for their personal power and destroy the very heart and bedrock of this nation.
Why? Because Nyland isn't just a collection of peoples. Nyland is freedom. Nyland is Justice. Nyland is fairness and compassion. A war between good and evil is being waged, and Nyland stands on the side of righteousness. If you don't walk with us in goodness, you walk with evil, and with my God as my witness here today, you will be dealt with accordingly."
President Kohout declined comment on the nature of Nyland's future involvement, his upcoming meetings with foreign leaders, or rumored plans for a large military expansion, saying only that these topics would be revealed "soon."