Varyar said:
Yet again you prove you talk more than you listen. Have I not explained why Prussia acted like it did, and why Italy found it shameful? Indeed, if you don't listen, who are you to talk of shambolic diplomacy?
And we are able to take the Italian word over that of the Prussians themselves? Shambolic.
Varyar said:
Perhaps. But by exercising this "common sense" you not only violated a treaty on purpose, you even signed it with ill intent. And you may recall that in the talks preceding the Black Letter you were hardly forthcoming about the wish to restore to Prussia lands that should be Prussian.
Again, you persist in calling that ultimatum a treaty. Shambolic.
Varyar said:
As explained before, it was not a fair negotiation as you based it on an old border agreement. Indeed, you may recall that I suggested a repatriation of the provinces to Prussia so that you could renegotiate, only this time fair. A proposition you rejected. Which I guess speaks for itself, really.
Hollow words that may as easily be filled with poison as honey. Words that
you refused to give substance to. Respectable? Perhaps, had you the skill to make it less
transparent.
Varyar said:
You tried nothing, did nothing, and you certainly didn't prove me wrong on any account whatsoever. You did present an alternative view, which I recognize as partly valid, but you made no attempt whatsoever to reconcile your view with mine, and you did not recognize my view as valid. Indeed, you were the stubbirn one in our negotiations, leaving me little choice.
And you proved yourself a bloodthirsty tyrant whose own allies you motivated with fear. Shambolic? For once, no. But diabolical? Yes.
And we note that the rest of this paragraph is, to put it lightly, a load of hooey. But you already know that.
Your compulsive need to justify yourself with the dead letters of yesterday reveals your cowardly heart. Had you the courage of a man, you would take ownership of your actions, rather than braying on about "little choice".
Did you perhaps have equally little choice when you decided to undermine the very man you previously tried to convince us was your emperor? The systematic way in which Prussian diplomatic and military initiative were stripped away horrifies us much more than the squalid territorial demands of the Italians. To reduce your overlord to a puppet - one may as well crown a man an emperor and then treat him as a
mule.
And while we are sure you will protest each of these points, in the same lax-brained way you have before, we have indulged Italian vanity quite enough, we are no longer listening. Now stop posing and come and
fight.
[OOC: Alright Varyar, I'm sure my real vexation with this shows through in here, though be assured all of the insults are IC. From your own actions, and talking to Carillon privately I really do have issues with the way you treated Prussia. But, well, it's no big thing, it's in the past now, and I'd like to leave it there. The whole buildup to this thing has been hashed and re-hashed like 18 rounds too many (to paraphrase another) and I'm sure people are getting bored of it. I shall endevour to make this my last public post on this matter, but if you have a burning need to talk part of it over, you know where to IM me.
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