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NukEvil:
And, "technically", RD committed an act of war against MD when they farmed them before SoF's FS. What's your point?
Then "technically" Omega has declared war on RD.
My point is that this was MD's decision to make, not Omega's. And even though Omega probably made the right decision, the lack of contact with MD or RD upon coming to this decision and then announcing it is sad. The decision needs to be a result of negotiation between RD and MD, upon which time, Omega as police can enforce the decision. The job of the police isn't to unilaterally come up with policy decisions on behalf of the alliance they police for. The job of the police is to enforce the decisions the alliance they police for comes up with, and is unable to enforce themselves, due to their current war.
I would say that an action done by one member of an alliance without approval of his leaders is the action of a suicider. The action of a large part of an alliance, with approval of their leaders is an act of war. In killing off a suicider that did not hit them, Omega has declared war on RD. In having one of their members suicide on MD, RD did not declare war on MD.
I consider Omega to have broken the uNAP.
I would have no problem with MD making a request of Omega, and then Omega obliging this request. At that point, Omega's actions would be those of a police, and not Omega, so a killing done for MD would be done in MD's name. But killing without first securing MD's request for the killing makes it an act of war by Omega against RD. An exception could be made, if there was reason to believe that the country being killed posed an ongoing threat to the war, but that clearly was not the case here, and it is impossible to argue that Omega believed that the country was going to continue to hit into the war.
This is such an easy situation to handle correctly, but Omega found a way to mess it up. I don't know why they found it impossible to contact RD or MD first, and to leave the decision up to those two alliances, but rather found it necessary to insert themselves into the decisionmaking process.