Minister Nathan,
Jess signed a treaty with Victoria and then broke it. The legal precedent for who would rule Amokolia was hazy at best- luckily Jess chose Elwynn and Ashkenatza in fact
congratulated Elwynn upon the occasion. You may remember, seeing as you responded to it and were moderator of the Hall of Conciliation on Elwynn's pre-Bastion forum. Ashkenatza had been concerned for a while about Amokolia's constant hopping from nation to nation to continue to survive and if you remember the Ocian War, you'll recall that this at times gave Ashkenatza grave cause for concern. Our northern border could fall into anyone's hands, at any time, all at Jess's whim. Of course we were concerned. Anybody would be. When Elwynn annexed Amokolia we were relieved- it gave us some kind of stable northern neighbour to do business with. If you'll remember our communication was quite extensive in those days after the 'bidding war' which you only now seem to have a problem with. The Cherokee Accords which came as a part of our 'carving up' Amokolia resulted in there being no discord in Central Benacia since.
They worked.
Daniel. Paranoia? Really? Have you forgotten a recent discussion entitled '
Babkhan military presence' on your own forums? This is proof, not paranoia. Given the large number of Elwynnese citizens who are also Babkhan citizens, it is not paranoid to suppose that such a move would easily find support in the Senate. On the contrary, that's called realism. I think I am being reasonable in supposing that a discussion about a Babkhan 'military presence' won't be talking about merchant ships as you suggest.
From where I'm standing, Elwynn wants to align itself closer to Babkha and needs a compelling reason to get rid of its cordial relations with Ashkenatza whilst appearing as if it has reasonable grounds for doing so. So Ashkenatza hasn't been perfect. But as regards our attempts at building a friendship with Elwynn, we tried pretty hard. Remember, we were the first nation to recognise you as an independent state. You can try, and you evidently are, to find compelling reasons for why Elwynn suddenly needs not only to cease friendly relations with Ashkenatza, but become a possible future enemy, but you won't meet with much success. There was a time when we put a lot of time and effort into making Elwynn a good friend- the Elwynn bridge, trying to establish Trans-Elwynn cultural links and so forth, so if you want to tear up the Trans-Elwynn Accords, just do the mature thing and say so.
First it was the closure of the Embassy, which didn't work, because somebody evidently hadn't read the post on our forums thoroughly enough (it was a statement of displeasure that the embassy could close given close Elwynnese military ties with an enemy state). Then there was some equally nonsensical reason about our harming Benacian stability by participating in a Batavian Civil War (quite an assumption there since we were only notified of the war yesterday and still haven't even started discussing our position on it in the Knesset). Now you're trying to dig up supposedly long-standing grievances against us from the partitioning of Amokolia.
The reasons change, but the facts remain the same. And the fact in Kolmenitzkiy is that Elwynn has shown that she has picked a side in the Ashkenatzi-Babkhan Cold War and is searching frantically for a reason. You won't find a good one, for sure, but whichever one you decide, we'll be waiting for you to approach our government formally to cancel the Accords. Then we can get this tedious argument behind us and get down to the business of actually closing Legations like we promised.