Xing Shianan Official Briefing on Soft
Riposte
Matteus Tyrannus Tan,
The Xing Empire Representative to SENSE
Ladies and gentlemen of the SENSE assembly,
As you are now all aware, there has been an incursion into
Reichland territory by our aircraft that had been ordered and
authorized by our government. This incursion took place today at
4:15pm, in a mission that we have named Soft Riposte. The aim of
this incursion is a direct, demonstrated response to Prussias
stating of its official stance that it would not tolerate the
presence of Xing Shiana as part of the SENSE coalition to enforce
the armament restrictions on Prussia.
The incursion was launched from one of our Carrier Battle Groups in
the Sea of Fuchs, and involved over forty aircraft. Twenty XF-35
Bobcat fighter bombers and twenty three X-35 Joint Strike Fighters
were launched on the mission. Six Bobcats and seven Joint Strike
Fighters actually made the incursion into SENSE airspace. The
Bobcats were involved mainly in providing fighter support while the
JSFs were equipped with ECM gear to jam the enemys sensor network.
Besides air to air weapons on the Bobcats for self defense, no
strike munitions of any kind were carried.
The intruding aircraft penetrated fifteen kilometers into Reichland
as part of the operation to create confusion and throw the defenses
off balance, as well as to divert them while two of the Bobcats
went on a deep penetration flight to reach the capital. Upon
reaching the city, the two aircraft did a supersonic over flight of
the Royal Palace and boomed the facility, as well as to drop
several flares. The entire mission lasted forty-five minutes and
all Xing Shianan aircraft returned safely.
Now, I must state clearly that the main objective of Soft Riposte
is not a move in a campaign to invade Reichland or their affiliated
state, but as a direct, demonstrated response towards the Prussian
regimes move to block Xing Shianan as being part of the coalition
to enforce the armament restrictions on Prussia.
Our government has felt that engaging in verbal diplomacy with the
Germanic states has drawn an unacceptable amount of stonewalling
and stubbornness to the point that basic verbal diplomacy has been
deemed impossible. While Xing Shiana has agreed fully to the
compromise proposal reached by Singabola, it has felt that the move
by Prussia to block its entry into the coalition to enforce the
armament restrictions as an unacceptable move that obviously
demonstrated their contempt for Xing Shianas central position in
SENSE. Have determined that verbal diplomacy on such an issue would
be laborious, and unproductive, after much deliberation and
consideration of other options, the Xing Shiana government has
decided that a more forceful show of our official position was
needed, and hence the go ahead for this mission was given.
I hope that the Germanic governments will draw the proper lessons
from this incident. Xing Shiana has been the most involved nation
in maintaining security in the Prussian region since the close of
the first war, and knows the true intentions of the government
under its watch well, and has shown extraordinary restrain in
dealing with them. This mission demonstrates that Xing Shiana is
willing to use force, when necessary, to enforce the interest and
security of SENSE.
Contrary to what the two Germanic nations might say, the Xing
Empire has no desire to neither circumvent nor dominate SENSE or to
annex their nations. Xing Shiana has always acted to the best of
its ability to enforce the security of SENSE, and has no
territorial ambitions. During the Prussian/Sense war, Xing Shiana
rushed to the defense of 440mhz when it was under imminent threat
of being taken over by Prussia. Xing Shiana, despite being the most
isolated country geographically in SENSE, has rushed men and
material during the war and poured its nations sweat and blood
defending the interests of SENSE, fighting in complete cooperation
and looking out for the back of their allies in SENSE. Following
the war, Xing Shiana did not occupy Prussia but instead helped in
the rebuilding of the country with its resources and encouraged the
people to live in freedom from the old Reynard regime and to govern
themselves. It is unfortunate that a similar regime has managed to
come into power in such a nation in just a short space of five
years. Xing Shiana has no desire to dominate its neighbors or annex
other countries, but merely to maintain security in this
region.
There are extremely compelling reasons why this current regime has
had extremely poor relations with Xing Shiana, and they go beyond
simple prejudice and hatred. Xing Shiana played a very large role
in the defeat of the old regime during the war, managing to check
Prussian advances at almost every move, from the abortive attack
with nuclear weapons on SENSE troops to the invasion of Malaya and
440Mhz and clearing the desperate naval blockade to ensure that the
resupply of SENSE troops in Promandy area after the invasion of
Prussia was possible, and finally using our advanced technology to
sweep aside all Prussian opposition and end the war with minimum
SENSE casualties. All these military victories led directly to the
downfall of the ex-duke Reynard and the liberation of the Prussian
people. Unfortunately, the current Prussian regime is ruled by the
son of Reynard, and as history goes, he will not give Xing Shiana
an easy time to maintain security in the region. And if anything
else, history has shown that it is Prussia who has a penchant for
militaristic gains and Xing Shiana that has always held up the
interests of SENSE to the absolute best of its ability.
If Xing Shiana is not part of the coalition to inspect and enforce
the restrictions in Prussia, the loss would be great. Without the
advanced intelligence technology of Xing Shiana, enforcing these
restrictions in Prussia would be next to impossible, holding back
Xing Shiana from playing a part in enforcing these restrictions
will allow Prussia to literally rearm right under our noses to
become a threat to us again, as Germany did in World War 2. Already
their Germanic regime is becoming increasingly xenophobic and
militant, wanting to claim, in their own words, their rightful
birthright and superiority of heritage and fruits that are so
rightfully ours referring to other sovereign and independent
states, states like 440mhz and countless others in which Xing
Shiana has fought so hard over the past 5 years to make sure
remained safe from the rising threat of a alarming rise of
militancy in Prussia. Xing Shiana, along with Eziiumi-shi were the
founding nations of SENSE, and hence it makes no sense for Xing
Shiana to act outside SENSE interests or to dominate SENSE, for
whats good for SENSE is good for Xing Shiana.
The objectives of todays non-lethal missions are to announce to
all those in the two regimes who still have any hidden intentions
and hold the Xing Empire as enemies that there is no where to hide
and no where to run from the right to justice and freedom, and
security from the region. I seriously encourage the government of
these two regimes to stop antagonizing Xing Shiana, and force it to
move its hand against them. For today we have demonstrated that we
are not on a campaign of half-measures to maintain peace in this
region, and will act to the fullest of our ability to make sure
everyone in SENSE can grow up safe. Being the biggest kid in the
block it is our responsibility.
I now urge the governments of Prussia and Reichlands to reconsider
their stances, and allow Xing Shiana inspectors as well as troops
in under the agreed compromise proposal for all SENSE nations, lest
we are forced to enforce these restrictions with more direct
approaches that would be disastrous for the people of these
nations. As todays mission has demonstrated, Xing Shiana is
perfectly capable of dissolving any target it wants, even the top
leadership in these two nations, and it seriously urges that the
respective governments of these nations not to force relations to
reach such a state, and to relent to the Xing Shianan demands for
its role in the inspections as well.
Thank you for your time.
