(06-30-2014, 01:29 PM)Belschaft Wrote: It allows a period of time to see what happens, judge how well commitments to TRR and TNI can be combined, and work on developing a relationship with TRR - a relationship that is relatively new and unproven.

I just don't see this a genuine idea. We already have cultural and military cooperation with TRR, and that has not been a problem. What's left is mutual defense, and that can't really be subject to a trial period. Either TNI directly attacks TRR, or they don't. If they do, that spells the end, for me, to the current alliance anyways.

How many of our current treaties went through this path of first having an NAP to "prove" a relationship?

(06-30-2014, 01:29 PM)Belschaft Wrote: Historically TRR has been hostile to us - it's government was utterly complicit in Sedge's coup, and attempted to cover it up.

And we formed an alliance with the military group that attacked them and usurped control over their region, merely because they belong to a defender organization that liberated a region TNI took over... in what, 2006? If they are willing to let bygones be bygones, then why can't we?