The Coalition Against the Ideology of Nazism (CAIN) is a multi-regional treaty that is hypothetically tasked with removing Nazis, "Nazi" regions, and designated Nazi collaborator regions. Osiris has been involved in this treaty since it passed the Council of Scribes in late October.
As a citizen of Osiris, as well as one that is popular in and familiar with the R/D sphere, I am going to provide my opinion on CAIN and why I believe we should repeal the CAIN treaty, thus removing us from the list of CAIN signatories as per Section 4(d) of the CAIN Treaty. I was originally impartial about it, yet I was leaning toward Osiris signing the CAIN treaty. CAIN has turned into a congregation of anti-Nazi leftists that like to use that ideology to politically strongarm signatories into participating in operations that they may have no desire to join in on, under the presage that they will be unofficially labeled as "Nazi Sympathizers".
Not only is CAIN being used as a political strongarm, it is being used as a tool to burden non-signatories into joining CAIN by harassing and insulting said non-signatories until they do it. But wait, there's more! From the viewpoint of certain unnamed CAIN participants, CAIN is being used by extremist military organizations (such as The Grey Wardens, a proscribed region of Osiris, and The Red Fleet) as an instrument to assist their operations and further their political and military influence, such as the Femdom Empire operation. Femdom Empire began as a Grey Warden operation, and they predictably failed. They quickly and unofficially brought in some other CAIN members, leading KAISERREICH (one of the main, yet debatable, Designated Nazi regions) to get involved due to a biased assumption by CAIN that KAISERREICH is a Nazi region. Their involvement is exactly what The Grey Wardens wanted, just so they could demand CAIN "superiors" to get the signatories tangled up in this utter failure of an operation. CAIN has yet to seize the region. Overall, there is no reason for CAIN to be there, and they only are since KAISERREICH is involved and apparently Femdom Empire is full of "Feminazis".
The problem here is that "feminazi" is just a term used by The Grey Wardens to label Femdom Empire in order to get CAIN involved. Sure, Jadny and her crew may be complete nuts, and possibly extreme feminists, but they are not Nazis. And now? CAIN is getting upset as even most of their members realize that this is a ridiculous operation that is an insult to an idea that had some potential, thus leading to some signatories choosing to not participate which just leaves them to be insulted by The Grey Wardens and The Red Fleet. Femdom Empire is not about fighting Nazis -- it is about doing a favor to The Grey Wardens by cleaning up their terrible, failed operation in a disorganized manner.
Dismally, Osiris along with the majority of CAIN signatories, did not surmise this disappointing outcome and poor organization of such embarrassing operations. It has come to my attention that thus far, the logic of CAIN is "in-game Nazis are idiots because RL Nazis did bad things and if you don't help us, you are an idiot". CAIN is losing whatever durability it initially had, and it is on the brink of collapse. Their leadership is strongly made up of those that are very closely associated with The Grey Wardens.
I'd finally like to point out the unseen enigma of CAIN. In data collected by General Ever-Wandering Souls of The Black Hawks, it is perceived that Nazi regions (especially Nazi Europa) have been gaining substantial population numbers owing to the attention that the arrival CAIN treaty is giving them.
Additionally, The Order of the Grey Wardens is on our Proscribed Regions and Organizations list (Article I, Section 3(6) of the Legal Code), and they are also a signatory of CAIN. When Cormac was Pharaoh, he stated that "the Legion will be permitted to work alongside any region or organization on either offensive or defensive operations against fascists, Nazis, and their collaborators, even if restrictions exist that would ordinarily prevent such cooperation.". Though Cormac may be my friend, I'll have to blatantly disagree. In order for Osiris to retain its regional sovereignty while participating in CAIN, we should only work with them inasmuch as the Grey Wardens are not participating. Disappointingly, that may not be an option, since they are the puppeteers of this coalition. If the legion wants to participate in operations against fascists, Nazis, and their collaborators, then by all means let's do it. But we should not do it with the Grey Wardens, an organization where leaders have openly stated that they would invade and destroy any raider region if they got the chance. Well, news flash, Osiris is a raider-aligned region with a military that raids. The Grey Wardens, an organization that seized and destroyed an ancient territory that was claimed by Osiris. I have, and will continue, to refuse participating in CAIN with a group that still poses a threat to Osiris, and a threat to our regional sovereignty.
While CAIN is busy failing at liberating Femdom Empire, there is a Nazi occupation happening elsewhere with a Security Council Liberation that just reached quorum within a few hours of ending thanks to Cormac's campaign telegram that he sent out. If CAIN was not led by a group of self-centered egomaniacs, then the proposal would have been noticed and would have safely reached quorum hours ago. Where is CAIN now? They must be too busy being exerted by their political puppet masters.
Though I do not, and will not, associate myself with real-life Nazis, nor do I sympathize them. I believe that the Nazis belong out of NationStates Gameplay and back in their nook of ambiguity where all abysmal extremists belong, yet they will refuse to by the virtue of the CAIN treaty. CAIN was a good idea, but seeing it grow has only resulted in a miserable failure and defeat to those actually wanting to remove Nazis from the game, and a triumphant victory for the Nazis and for the NSLeft as it has bestowed upon them an instrument that they may utilize to gain more support in operations that benefit themselves, thus bringing me to the point that CAIN has become exactly what it was initially created to overcome.
For all reasons incorporated, plus more, I assure you that CAIN is not of the majority's truest interests, and I will work to withdraw from CAIN is a very practical choice in order to prevent it from being further used as a tool against Osiris. Should the Council of Scribes choose not to repeal the CAIN treaty, Osiris will only abandon her regional sovereignty and the CAIN treaty will antagonistically affect us in our forthcoming endeavors. Should we take action by repealing the treaty and withdrawing, we should work with others with similar goals with the aim of methodically dissolving CAIN.
Chief Scribe of Osiris Please note that this is my opinion, and in no way do I speak for the rest of the government of the OFO.
