Balance of Power (Gameplay Thread) - Epilogue and Game Over

[Donerail]

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X President John Hay

x Emperor Mutsuhito

We are proud to sign this treaty as a grand gesture of friendship.

[Donerail]

It was many thousands of years ago when the Japanese people first established the thriving government of their Home Islands. We have known peace and prosperity, as we have grown into a world power. We have been fiercely, proudly independent. We have also expanded as part of our growth, expanding our rule from Karafuto in the north to the Philippines in the south. We have been a strong and free nation.

But our friends and our neighbors have not always been free. Western, European powers have attempted to impose their will on the free people of the East. Now, it has fallen to the Japanese people to liberate our brothers and sisters from the oppressive yoke of Western imperialism. I stand with the people of Japan, the people of the Pacific, the people of Borneo, Sarawak, China, Indochina, and Malaya, when I, Emperor Mutsuhito, do announce that a state of war now exists between the Japanese Empire and the nations of Britain and France. We seek an Asia free of European rule and shall not rest until that dream is achieved.

[Donerail]

Allies are supposed to aid another when they are attacked. When Russia attacked Japan we joined its side, now when America attacks us where are they? They didn't join us, they attacked us, traitors.

... Japan was bound to the United Kingdom by a treaty which we no longer regard as a functional diplomatic instrument, largely as a result of two of the treaty members already being at war with each other.