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Piacentine sends dozens of submarines and aircraft carriers to blockade Eastern Gavtopian Coast

In a surprising escalation after weeks of relative silence, Piacentine’s top military command has called for a blockade on the Eastern Gavtopian coast, ordering a large fraction of its naval forces to occupy the entire coast. The stated mission of their presence is to prevent the transportation of any imports and exports to and from the neighboring nation.

“This is a necessary move for securing a path forward to protecting and integrating our southern colony, Vaskora.” General Miles Arthur confirmed in a statement. “Following months of receiving zero communication from Gavtopia after reaching out extensively to negotiate a path forward, we now must resort to these hopefully nonviolent unilateral means of setting up infrastructure to and from our Southern Piacenti Districts to Vaskora.”

General Arthur’s statement made no mention of a timeline or set of conditions where the blockade can be expected to end. When asked by PNN if this new blockade was an inhumane starvation tactic, High-Chief Drago argued it was not, because “The Western Gavtopian Coast is still fully open and operational. This may inconvenience some, but all Mr. Crayne has to do is pick up the phone and work with us to come to a mutually satisfactory resolution. That’s what we’ve been asking them for months. Radio silence is not an appropriate response from a national security standpoint.”

High-Chief Drago also emphasized that all military personnel occupying the coast have been instructed to not fire first, and if threatened, to prioritize non-lethal force unless they are left without alternatives. “We want to be clear to the international community and to our allies in the region and in the Vienna Pact especially, that this is not an invasion, this is an enhanced phase of negotiation.”