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For the text of treaty: No Issues with the Text, reads like a fairly run of the mill Non Aggression Pact

For Everything Else: For the record, I'm not someone who does much work in Foreign Affairs, the extent of my experience has been passive ambassadorships to usually defender aligned regions.

It's Europeia, it has a patchy history in R/D, and I'm getting concerned as to the Foreign Affairs direction of this administration.

We seem to be trying to become allies and open embassies with everyone, even when it comes with severe lapses in judgement which move us closer to open embassies with regions that contact OOC banned individuals.

Since December, we have opened embassies with Defender Aligned Regions like the Rejected Realms, XKI and our continued relationship with the League, while simultaneously opening consulates and beginning relations with Independents, some who lean very much into the raider side, just without an official declaration of ideology.

I am confused as to where we attempting to go here, are we trying to be friends with everyone? This is undoubtedly an interesting policy, but I am very concerned that if another TNP-TSP altercation occurs that Thaecia could be stuck in the middle of it, especially if the back channels between the two opposing sides fail to produce results. For those unaware of what I'm on about, TNP a little while ago did a Quorum raid run on regions supporting a proposal to Repeal "Liberate CCD" - When the RRA and SPSF, among others, countered this, TNP borderline accused them of being fascists and fascist sympathizers. If Thaecia had maintained embassies/partnerships with both regions during this time period, I'm concerned as to how the government will be able to deal with these situations if it becomes a large problem. We are further entangling ourselves in a complex web of alliances and embassies with a wide range of regions and ideologies, which would make it hard for us to do anything except say nothing when our allies are fighting, at risk of loosing one of them.

Onto Europeia itself. They have an interesting history in R/D. Most recently, their participation in the raid of The Embassy, which saw the destruction of a prominent inter-regional community that, well, an awful lot of people cared deeply about. While it appears that their leadership received backlash for participation, it has been argued that the destruction of an interregional hub was not "griefing" - Words of our own President, and therefore is okay. Naturally, I think is a silly notion.

Onto the notion that we can somehow change their R/D. Europeia has exponentially more experience than Thaecia when it comes to R/D. It is incredibly, and I believe unrealistically, optimistic to assume that we could have a shot at changing their R/D stance. It would take some serious leg work alongside our allies in TEP to do so, and is not something that I believe will happen in the next 6 months to a year, minimum, especially due to them having significantly longer, older, and more influential allies that share a closer R/D philosophy to them. Thaecia is ultimately insignificant and small when it comes to their other existing allies. I am moreso concerned about the effect that Europeia will have on our R/D stance. We are currently very much Independent, we raid about as much as we defend. Thaecian liberators are common at big libs, but so are tag runs and their counters in detags. We do everything fairly actively, while Europeia leans heavily into the occupation side of things. We have already seen Europeia begin to influence the Thaempirial Army, with the primary motivation behind our participation being to please Europeia. While our Indie status means that we are obviously going to participate in an occupation here and there, participation for the near sole purpose of pleasing a larger region is not something that feels great. We're Thaecia - not a region of pillers for some ally to call in when they can't gather enough support at home.

Something else I am going to point out is that we only share consulates with Europeia, not fully fledged embassies and yet are leaping to a NAP. This strikes me as a bit odd, but this is apparently how Europeia operates, but I would be more comfortable with a step like this (in general, not necessarily specific to Europeia) if we at least had a decent stretch of time of being embassy partners, exchanging reports, participating in jointly organized raids/libs etc, before we sign a treaty of any kind. Alongside this, there is much that the general citizenry doesn't know about Europeia or its community, having had very little time to interact with the other side via the medium of cultural events, joint listening/film watching sessions like we recently saw with FNR and others.

In credit to Europeia, they did recently pass a bill mandating a policy, in which contains some form of anti griefing policy, showing progress, but this appeared to be as a result of internal backlash, not external pressure on the part of their allies, still showing how it is likely pointless for Thaecia to try and push Europeia in any direction without strong support from its larger allies.

TL;DR: Europeia Bad, NAP Bad, Thaecia should become an epic hard core defender isolationist region with, er, screw it, a Monarch!