Blackstone Code Chapter 1458: Stance
If possible...
Everyone wants to be in control of their own destiny!
The Republic of Lemar is located in the north-central part of the Eastern Ocean, a country that had little sense of existence before.
Because it's too far out of this world!
Distance refers to the distance, distance, from other countries.
Except for some ocean-going trade, no one travels to Lemar, and the people of Lemar do not travel to other countries.
Undeveloped technology, people can't go far!
Maybe at first the furthest people could go was around the area where they lived, but with the advancement of science, people have been able to go further.
The world has not changed, technology has made the world smaller.
The people of Lemar had no worries before, but now, they have.
The Republic of Lemar consists of 19 districts of the Lemar Archipelago, and the President is directly elected by the people of these 19 districts. .
The biggest difference between it and the federation is that people have expanded the right to appoint and remove the president. They can not vote for the presidential candidate selected by the party, but vote for anyone, including themselves!
However, a directly elected president without a deep political foundation can only be a mascot.
In fact, there is no shortage of such mascot presidents in the history of Lemar. The appearance of the mascot president can actually be seen as another form of compromise under the sharpening of party contradictions.
As the mascot ascends, the conflicts between parties will tend to ease, until the next time it will intensify.
Now Lemar's big president comes from Lemar's largest party, the Democratic Party (Helping the National Cause Party), and maintaining neutrality is the policy that the Democratic Party has always adhered to.
It was like this before, and it is like this now.
They were also nervous and worried for a while after they rejected the Federal Foreign Office's request to build fortifications on the territory of Lemar.
It's just that the Federals did not show dissatisfaction with Lemar's decision, and launched some public opinion offensive or trade sanctions, which made Lemar relieved.
To be honest, the federation is now putting more and more pressure on the international community, and people are seeing the role of technology in military and national power!
In the words of some people, isn't it that technology is ahead of other countries by maybe ten or twenty years?
Is this an unbridgeable chasm?
Apparently, yes!
While most nations' war methods were still flat wars, the Federation had turned wars into three-dimensional wars.
This represents the crushing of dimensions, which is no longer a matter of strength and technology, but a different dimension.
Even though some countries have caught up now, the gap is still obvious.
The Commonwealth's aircraft are well-defined, well-purposed, and well-designed.
It seems that the gap is not big, but it may take several times or even dozens of human lives to fill it on the battlefield, but it may not be able to fill the gap caused by these gaps!
The people of Lemar have no intention of meddling in the war between these world powers, they just want to live in peace.
President Lemar did not wake up until nine o'clock in the morning.
Lemar does not have much heavy industry, mainly animal husbandry and seafood as the country's pillar industries.
Almost everyone here is a sailor who works and fishes at sea with family, village or company regulations.
The caught things will be exported to the world in large quantities. Among the many products, large marine organisms are the most prominent.
Things like whales, deep sea elephants, giant star seahorses (not a typo), etc., are all major exports.
Generally speaking, this is a calm, moderate country without too many disputes.
Waking up at nine o'clock has already given the nation a "hard-working" impression of the president.
You know, most people don't get up until noon, because the leisurely life is enough for them to develop the habit of getting drunk in the middle of the night.
The location is slightly to the north, and it will be colder in winter, so drinking and drinking spirits has become a habit of the whole people.
Watching TV at night while getting drunk is the norm for most people.
In the morning, not long after Mr. President, who drove to the Presidential Palace, sat down, the phone rang in the secretary's office outside the door.
He waited for a while, but still no one answered, it seems that the secretary hasn't come yet.
He went to the secretary's office and looked at the ringing phone. After a moment of silence, he raised it.
Originally, the secretary's job was to sort incoming calls. Now she may not get up, so as a hard-working president, he can only answer the phone by himself.
"This is the Office of the Secretary to the President...", he introduced himself as usual.
A non-local accent, but a very natural standard language pronunciation, is heard immediately opposite.
"Hello, I would like to visit Mr. President. I don't know what procedures to go through?"
This question stopped Mr. President at once.
How did he know what to do?
He never did this again.
After being stunned for a while, he quickly asked, "Ah, yes, what identity are you going to use to visit Mr. President?"
"The identity of Penggio's diplomat..."
Half an hour later, Mr. President was sitting in the office a little nervous. When the other party claimed that he was a diplomat of Pengio, he became nervous.
At this point he was waiting for the arrival of the other party.
He is guessing what the diplomat will say when he arrives, and how he will face it.
Not long after, someone knocked on the door, and the president came back to his senses and said, "Please come in."
The man who came in was a gentleman who looked at most forty years old. His clothes were very decent and noble, and you could feel the extraordinary aura from him without him opening his mouth.
He must be a Pengio noble, the President thought, and then invited him to sit down.
Pentio's diplomat grumbled a few words after he sat down.
"I called your foreign service, but it never got through..."
Mr. President is a little embarrassed, "The fishing season is coming, and the foreign minister has to go back and help."
Lemar is far away from the world, the role of the foreign ministry is very small, and even the foreign minister is in some respects less powerful than the police chief of a certain district.
Not even as good as the Assistant Chief of Police.
On weekdays, the contact with the outside world may only help some agricultural products to find opportunities for export when necessary. Besides, they have nothing to communicate with the outside world.
Closed, simple, unpretentious, that's the status quo of diplomacy here.
It's just spring, and the returning fishing season is coming, which is a very important event of the year for Lemar.
It determines the income of people in this country at least in the first half of the year, so every day the foreign minister who is messing around takes the initiative to ask for leave to go home and go to sea. Mr. President himself feels that there is no problem.
Who would contact foreign affairs at such an important time?
Peng Jieao's diplomat was also stunned. He couldn't possibly have thought that the reason why he couldn't get through on the phone was that the foreign minister had gone back to fish.
This... well!
Mr. President does not want to continue to be embarrassed, "So what is the purpose of your visit this time?"
Very direct, and Pengio's diplomats are equally direct, "We hope to help you resist the invasion of the Federals..."
Same statement as the Federals, Mr. President smiled and said nothing, "The Federation does not intend to invade us."
"That's only temporary!", the diplomat is still pressing step by step, "The Commonwealth is seeking a higher status in the international community, and they will become more aggressive than ever before."
"We recently collected some information that they are building fortifications in the waters east of Sedoras. You should understand what this means."
The words of diplomat Penggio made Mr. President stunned. He really didn't know what it meant, but he knew it was not a good sign.
This does not prevent him from showing a solemn expression. Although Lemar's situation is not as complicated as the Federation, for politicians, the basic quality of an actor is still required.
"I don't know about this!" Mr. President lowered his voice, which made him seem to hide a trace of dissatisfaction, some anger!
The diplomats continued to press, "They used Lemar as an imaginary battlefield..."
"No, it's not hypothetical, they just intend to use Lemar as a battlefield, and that's their attitude."
"Mr. President, the only one who can save Lemar now is us!"
Soon, Mr. President indicated that he would consider it, did not immediately reply to Pongio's diplomat, and then let the other party leave.
He then called everyone and gathered them into his conference room.
When he repeated the words of Diplomat Pontiero, everyone's expressions became...different.
Some people expressed dissatisfaction.
Some people show timidity.
Some people smiled imperceptibly.
As a matter of fact, what Diplomat Pontiero said was not wrong at all, but not entirely.
When Lemar refused to stand with the Federals, at least they were no longer allies~IndoMTL.com~ Can't even Sedoras be unguarded just because of the idea of taking care of the Lemars?
Once the fortification of Sedoras means that Lemar becomes the front line, there is no way out.
In the war that affects the world, no one can stay out of it (independent of all right and wrong, not involved in anything, and not affected by anything), it can only be said that this is not a problem of the Federation, it is Lemar's own question.
Obviously, now they are not very comfortable with the consequences they have caused themselves, and Mr. President is very dissatisfied with it.
"First get the foreign minister back, and secondly, we have to contact the Baylor Federation and ask what they mean."
Mr. President's emotions have been taken by Pontiero's diplomats, and he was interrupted just as he was expressing his dissatisfaction with federal actions.
"Mr. President, if we're not going to go to war with the Confederates, we'd better remain independent on this matter!"
"A stance in favor of the Pengios will ruin our neutrality policy!"