Arstotzkan Union declaration of War on the Alliance
On the night of 1 June 2022, First President Ethan Brinkman, on behalf of the Arstotzkan Federal Government, delivered to the public the Arstotzkan Union declaration of War on the Alliance, which was the term designated by the Arstotzkan Union to refer to Grayson Country and the Confederate Democracy of Gamers.
In a four-minute long speech delivered from his office in the Arstotzkan Union International Command Centre in the now-Gollandiya Capitol Territory, First President Ethan Brinkman remarked that the Arstotzkan Union would crush the Alliance and fight off capitalist aggression from the two nations.
The speech marked an unique time in the Arstotzkan Union's history. It was the one-year anniversary of Ethan Brinkman returning to power as the First President and began the nations openness transition. Efforts to open the Arstotzkan Union to a regional level had begun early into Ethan Brinkman's presidency in June 2021, however they were met with aggression in return prompting the Arstotzkan Union to take a more defensive approach when trying to open. This efforts were shown by the Department of International Affairs and Relations and Department of National Defense spending nearly a month working with the Office of the Presidency and Executive Committee to end the crisis through diplomatic means to show the image to other micronations that the Arstotzkan Union did not have a fight first approach. The introduction of the Confederate Democracy of Gamers, the nations largest adversary at the time, ended all attempts at diplomacy.
Background
Main Article: 2022 Arstotzkan Independence Crisis
On 7 May 2022, Grayson Moore, who formally worked as the main defence chief for the Confederate Democracy of Gamers from 2020 until the nation was dissolved by the Arstotzkan Union in April 2021, declared the independence of his nation, which he called Grayson Country. The nation was 1m2 in total. He was joined by the Arstotzkan Minister of Health, who declared the independence of his nation. However his nation was quickly dissolved 38 hours later.
This act sparked three weeks of negotiations by the Arstotzkan Union to end the crisis and allow for diplomatic relations to begin between the two countries. In mid-May 2022, the Arstotzkan Union informed Grayson Country that it would recognize it as an independent state to hopefully allow a peaceful transition to diplomacy and foreign relations. Behind the scenes, the Office of the Presidency knew that it would have to take a stronger approach as Grayson Country had been quashing efforts for diplomacy left and right. On 19 May 2022, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Arstotzkan Army Corps were activated and rasied to protect the Arstotzkan Union from a supposed military attack, while also trying to force Grayson Country into negotiations.
All efforts eventually failed and on 1 June 2022, the Confederate Democracy of Gamers was reformed and began the Arstotzkan - Alliance War.
Speech
This section contains the full speech delivered to the Arstotzkan public on 1 June 2022.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, people of the Independent Federal Republic of the Arstotzkan Union. My name is Ethan Brinkman and I am the First President and Kommandant of the AUNDF of the Arstotzkan Union. This message goes out to all Arstotzkan people. Tonight we have tried to achieve peace with our enemies. We have tried to achieve peace in our region. We have tried all diplomatic means. And they have failed. Peace has failed. Grayson Country still wants the conflict, the crisis, to continue on. And now they have brought back our old enemy, the Confederate Democracy of Gamers, whose reign brought oppression and suffering to our people in Judea. The mighty words and the mighty strength of our Marine Corps in 2020 were able to liberate our people. Now, unfortunately, tonight I address you with a sad, horrifying message.
It is on this day, June 1st, 2022, that as First President as Kommandant of the Arstotzkan Union Defence Forces and leader of the people, representative of this united republic, that I hereby raise a coalition against Grayson Country and the Confederate Democracy of Gamers. This means I am hereby and formally with the advice, in good faith and conscience, declaring war in absolute on Grayson Country and the Confederate Democracy of Gamers to end this conflict. I wish I did not have to declare war. However, I wish that we could be in peace. However, both nations do not wish for peace. And thus we must take this approach. I am hoping that this war will be a short war unlike the Arstotzkan - Confederate War which stands as one of the longest wars in our history. However, I can assure you the men and the women of the Arstotzkan Union Defence Forces will be willing to lay down their arms in pursuit of peace, freedom, liberty, socialism.
So we can once again stand as a united republic, free from the oppression of these people who wish to take our lands, who wish to oppress us with capitalist values that divide us amongst class by wealth. We want to stand as a united republic, as a united people, free, free to express ourselves in however way we see fit, free from oppression based on our wealth, based on our class, based on our ethnicity, we look at the United States, a symbol of the failures of capitalism, and they want to install that on our nation. They want to install a nation whose democracy is so flawed it is laughable. The Arstotzkan Union was created for one purpose, and one purpose only, to stand against that oppression, to stand against that form of capitalism, to crush that, to unite people, to bring people together, Divide classes and unite as one people, as Arstotzkan's, not as people of the CDG who have higher ranks or have higher class. No. The people of the lowest of lows can be the same as the people at the highest, at the top.
Why can't we live in this society? But this is the way we are. This is the way that it has to be, unfortunately. And my message of we are going to war is true. It is in good faith that I have declared war. And I would like to know, and I would like to send this message to Grayson Moore, High Emperor of Grayson Country, and Elijah Tibbits first President of the Confederate Democracy of Gamers. You have brought us into this peace. You have brought us into this war. And we will, in good faith... take you out, and destroy you completely. Good night, ladies and gentlemen.
Inaccuracies
In the speech, several inaccuracies have been discovered. It is believed that these are due to the nature of the speech, which was delivered "off script." This is a trademark of Ethan Brinkman in his speeches to the Arstotzkan Union. He prefers to do several takes, without a proper script being created. Only two speeches have ever had full length scripts, one of them being the 2023 State of the Union address.
The first mistake is in the first paragraph; "...the mighty strength of our Marine Corps in 2020 were able to liberate our people...". While this is partly true as the Arstotzkan Marine Corps, which were founded twenty days before the Arstotzkan-Confederate War, were the main force to be used during the war, it wouldn't come until 2021 when formal military action would take place under First President Zion Ormsby.
The second mistake and inaccuracy is more of a grammatical one than historical. In the second paragraph it states, "...will be willing to lay down their arms in pursuit...". This is a fallacy as Brinkman was trying to say they would take up arms not lay them down. Or it is believed that he was trying to say lay down their lives but changed approach midway through saying it.