[ATTN: Asylan] The Augustaborg Crisis

[Socialist Commonwealth]

From: Commissariate for Foreign Affairs
Office of the Commissar
Commissar Tomas Jerman

To: Republic of Asylan
President Henry Hollande

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The Workers' Republic of Carentania hereby expresses its heartfelt gratitude that the responsible government of Asylan has seen reason and decided to abandon its destabilizing stance in the Eastern Cape. However, we must also note the deep worries that have been raised as a result of the Asylan policies and we have begun to question the designs of the government of Asylan in regards to the Eastern Cape. As a result, there is little trust left in the goodwill of the government of Asylan that an incident such as the one revolving around the city of Augustaborg may not repeat itself in the future, when the nations of the ICD are preoccupied with different issues and Asylan may feel the time is ripe to repeat its folly.

Carentania thus feels compelled to seek out guarantuees from the government of Asylan that will prevent it from compromising the sovereignity of the Eastern Cape yet again and we will not accept idle words for such. History is shaped by material conditions and the continued presence of a removed Asylan military base in the direct vicinity of the independent Eastern Cape remains a continue threat to the sovereignity of the Eastern Cape. Freedom can not thrive under such conditions and the permanent threat of military involvement by Asylan forces is a very dire prospect indeed.

We thus have come to the conclusion that the Naval Base at Erdenshire should be vacated, the military troops there returning to Asylan proper. The island will temporarily be placed under Carentanian trusteeship with the formal and official goal of incorporating it into the independent Eastern Cape at the earliest viable time in the near future. Carentania understands the psychological impact of such a transfer of territory and the possible loss of face for the Asylan government, but must insist on these points to ensure the safety of the Eastern Cape whose smooth transfer to sovereignity it has taken responsibility for under the terms of its membership in the International Commission on Decolonization.

The Workers' Republic is willing to negotiate possible reparations for the financial burden an evacuation of Erdenshire may pose for the nation of Asylan.

 

[Asylan]

TOP SECRET

Let us start by saying the Republic of Asylan recognizes the mistake made in Augustaborg. While we continue to hope those who live in Augustaborg will still receive the option of referendum under the guidance of Cathiopia, we also recognize that there was a significant foreign policy blunder that was allowed to pass at the hands of an over ambitious ambitious and corrupt President Hollande. Territorial expansions or petty clients states is not the goal of the people of Asylan, and that this has been allowed to pass is something Asylans will live in shame about, luckily for everyone involved nobody on either of our sides was harmed in the crisis.

However that being said, Asylan will never abandon Erdenshire to any party. Incorporating Erdenshire into the Eastern Cape territory would make no sense. All three thousand of its inhabitants were those who fled from the war and strife of a horrible and unstable Eastern Cape whose situation has yet to even remotely improve. These people have been granted full Asylan citizenship and have never been the victim of some horrible colonial mindset that so many others hold. These are Asylan men, women, children and they will receive the full defense of Asylan's armed forces.

The people of the Eastern Cape may fear you, and your military in the confines of the Cape, but do not forget that to millions Asylans gave so much to and defended so many fleeing from death at the hands of Danish military forces. We can assure Carentania of this, the people of the Eastern Cape have never feared us. Asylan will remain from now until forever in control of Erdenshire, and will never hand it over to any foreign party.

With Respect
Vice President Risto Haggman
Republic of Asylan

 

[Socialist Commonwealth]

From: Commissariate for Foreign Affairs
Office of the Commissar
Commissar Tomas Jerman

To: Republic of Asylan
President Henry Hollande

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We do not feel that Asylan shows, in any way, shape or form, the willingness to face consequences for its destabilizing policies. It is obvious that the government of Asylan is directing idle words at us, now that it has speculated on an easy profit and lost. You say that Asylan does not intend territorial expansions or petty clients, but actions speak louder than words. Carentania deems it reasonable and understandable that it now demands guarantuees, not excuses, that prevent a similiar events from happening again, once Carentanian attention is forced elsewhere.

Asylan has not adressed, in a single word, our worries or grievances. Instead, it has resorted to cheap rhetorics and mere sophism, using arguments that, at plain view, support an integration of Erdenshire into the Eastern Cape to denounce this demand. When Asylan was still fighting for the dissolution of the sovereign Eastern Cape, it argued against ethnical diversity - now it fields the fact that, what little civilian life exists on the island is that of Himyaris who fled from the mainland, to deny them to live in the country of their families and friends who could not evade the turmoil created by Danish imperialism.

Why the situation on Erdenshire should detoriate with an integration into the Eastern Cape is beyond our comprehension and remains a mystery to anyone but the Asylan government. Even more so that now the government of Asylan is dragging the people who sought refuge on Erdenshire from the horrors of Danish imperialism into an international crisis caused by its own reckless ambitions to colonial overlordship in Eastern Himyar. Let us make it abundantly clear to you at this point that Carentania has a wide array of means available to ensure that Asylan will bear the consequences of its actions and will not evade its responsibility with hollow excuses. Asylans policies have caused tremendous damage to the stability of the Eastern Cape and while we are confident that the ICD can salvage the situation and stabilize the cape to lead it into a brighter - and independent - future, it is Asylan who should bear the political costs of this folly, not those who stepped in to halt Asylan expansionism.

With all due respect, we demand that Asylan will adress our concerns in a meaningful way and take measures that practically prevent it from ever setting upon the course of imperialism in Himyar again.

 

[Asylan]

TOP SECRET

Commisar Jerman, let me say that I apologize for my for my tone in the following response, but I wasn't elected Vice President for my eloquent diplomatic skills. In fact, I prefer to be blunt.

First off I've become tired of whatever ridiculous arguements you've decided to throw at us this time. Do you honestly believe that we actually are denying access to the refugees that elected to stay behind on the base and create their own settlement, the ability to go back to the Cape? No I don't think you really do.

Did you honestly believe that we would surrender sovereign territory to Carentania? Still something I refuse to believe.

If you really believe we will do that then you have a lot to learn about our fine Republic. Should you attempt a military incursion on Erdenshire base you will be met with the deadliest of possible force and it would mean a declaration of war between Carentenia and Asylan, as well as the entirety of the Triparte Agreement.

And you should consider hiring a new director for your intelligence agency, this is the second letter addressed to the wrong politician. At this point we would be surprised if Carentenia is capable of gathering intelligence on public speeches.

And also we aren't racist.

Vice President Risto Haggman
Republic of Asylan

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Haggman put down his pen. "I hope the press finds this one."

 

[Socialist Commonwealth]

From: Commissariate for Foreign Affairs
Office of the Commissar
Commissar Tomas Jerman

To: Republic of Asylan
President Henry Hollande

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The inability of the Asylan government to adress the concerns brought before them and their failure, even unwillingness to present alternatives to the proposed course, bodes ill for the future. Let us make it abundantly clear here that Asylan is the aggressor, no matter what the propaganda channels of its Tripartite allies spew into the world. As aggressor, it should assume responsibility for its actions and take measures to prevent similiar incursions into the policies of sovereign states like the Eastern Cape in the future.

You have made it clear that Asylan refuses to do so. Carentania will react to this. We will see if the dogs of the Tripartite Pact have any teeth behind their bark. Should Asylan decide to rethink its stance in this matter and return to negotiations, the diplomatic channels will remain open.