Eternity RPC Board
10-02-2016, 10:01 PM
Hi folks. Well, as you've prolly read in the news post, the interim president has formally requested that NETO extends their occupation of Wadiyah, past the previously determined term.
In regard to the Silistrian paramilitaries' involvement, the situation is a bit more complicated. Carpathia is covertly backing them, yes, but the Silistrians themselves are pretty directly backing the pro-NETO interim president, since, if the opposition candidate wins, he promises to end the NETO occupation and revoke Silistria's autonomy and impose Akhadic religious law nation-wide, something that the Silistrians are not very fond of.
In turn, the interim president is kinda' using the Silistrians themselves as something of an insurance policy against the Wadiyan military, which is currently backing the religious conservatives and has traditionally had a lot of political power (and still does). So, in the end, Carpathia's covert support of the Silistrians kind of translates into indirect support for NETO itself, as NETO (and the pro-NETO interim president) is the guarantor of Silistria's autonomy, in accordance with the terms of the peace treaty that was signed after the civil war.
The complicated part is that the pro-NETO interim president (Bassam Al-Fayeed) is using the failed coup as an excuse to crack down on political rivals, media publications that are critical of his government, etc. And he's using the Silistrian paramilitaries as something of a political police (So far, he had them raid and shut down several pro-opposition newspapers, on various trumped-up charges, such as that their execs and employees presumably supported the Akhadist State during the civil war)
In regard to the Silistrian paramilitaries' involvement, the situation is a bit more complicated. Carpathia is covertly backing them, yes, but the Silistrians themselves are pretty directly backing the pro-NETO interim president, since, if the opposition candidate wins, he promises to end the NETO occupation and revoke Silistria's autonomy and impose Akhadic religious law nation-wide, something that the Silistrians are not very fond of.
In turn, the interim president is kinda' using the Silistrians themselves as something of an insurance policy against the Wadiyan military, which is currently backing the religious conservatives and has traditionally had a lot of political power (and still does). So, in the end, Carpathia's covert support of the Silistrians kind of translates into indirect support for NETO itself, as NETO (and the pro-NETO interim president) is the guarantor of Silistria's autonomy, in accordance with the terms of the peace treaty that was signed after the civil war.
The complicated part is that the pro-NETO interim president (Bassam Al-Fayeed) is using the failed coup as an excuse to crack down on political rivals, media publications that are critical of his government, etc. And he's using the Silistrian paramilitaries as something of a political police (So far, he had them raid and shut down several pro-opposition newspapers, on various trumped-up charges, such as that their execs and employees presumably supported the Akhadist State during the civil war)