>>39776015>It'd still have slowed down their growthBut that's wrong, you retard. We've seen that this war did nothing to slow them down, jack shit would change about that if Bloc made the first offensive.
>There's no guarantee that, should they let themselves be slowed down to vulnerability, more people wouldn't join in to eventually take them down.Less people would be eager to jump in to kill them if they let Bloc take the first strike as they would be the unquestionable aggressor then.
>They were planning to do everything they could to grow to become capable of beating TNNWell shit, everyone stop building up. You can't be as strong as TNN, that's dangerous for them!
>That means everyone not on the Bloc was soon to suffer that same slowed growth or be the target of their own empire-making schemesAnd the second they moved in on smaller alliances and lone nations, they would be the sole target of everyone else. As stated before, Bird was already earning a bad reputation. Him making an advance would turn most of the other alliances hostile to him.
>Their plan was to grow as quickly as they could, and hope to stall TNN from getting any new nations or alliesHow fucking sinister. They deserve to be hung.
>That means that TNN, if it didn't manage to at least secure a NAP with the Bloc, was a likely target in the future, when they would be unable to defend themselves successfully.And what good would the NAP do? Bird would still have made his plans and we would be right back here once they got leaked. Unless you suggest this is fairy tale land where an NAP would mean no hostilities would ever be planned and we would all trust each other and be bestest friends always.
>please honestly tell me there was a more reasonable option for TNN to have takenI got one for you. Hold on tight, these are some high-level diplomatic plays:
>get Bloc logs from your spy showing Bird's plan>wait to see if he follows through>Bloc attacks a small nation>reveal the logs to show his plans>"Oh shit, those Bloc bastards are assholes. We should all stop them.">TNN is now on the good side with everyone>Bloc still gets eliminated, as they wanted in the first placeI know, it's quite a bit different than "attack some rando clueless Bloc member on the literal first available fucking war tick" so it's hard to process. But then again, I'm not the expert oldfag. Maybe conversations alone are good enough justification for an offensive takeover in the big boy diplomacy circles.
>if they simply wanted to roflstomp the game, they wouldn't have started with the biggest threatFucking what
>their slower growth borne out of their inexperience would only fall further behind as time went onIt's almost as if you understand the argument people are making against TNN
