La Conferencia de Altéa

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Lady Michelle Pavlina Ananto-Sandoval:

With respect, delegates: as Kalistan has been singled out and represented as a power hungry warlord and a state with "positions", rather than "visions" or even "ideas", we will ask your indulgence for a moment.

It is the desire for peace and free cooperation that motivates our "position".  It is a desire to keep obviously malevolent forces like Kalistan out of your part of the world that guides our vision.  Since South Dovani wishes to paint Kalistan as a cynical and voracious monster, we encourage them to help us build a fence between monsters like us, and people like the poor benighted visionaries in South Dovani, who want nothing to do with our sort of nation-eating.  Nothing would make Kalistan happier, in fact.  We say that in full good faith:  I absolutely mean it.

Had there been this world order, which posits an explicitly liberal world view as its operating principle and forces that liberal ideology down the throats of those who do not want it, as our colleague from South Dovani proposes, things might have been different. 

Perhaps, for example, had other nations been a little more active in denouncing fascism and extremism in Kundrati in the first place, because, to borrow the liberal phrase, that ideology "belongs in the dustbin of history;"

Had other nations of the world contributed anything meaningful to the sanctions regime --a VERY liberal policy option, by the way, aimed at encouraging defectors to begin cooperating with international norms of good behavior; 

Had other nations been as liberal internationally as the speaker wishes to suggest we all are by default, and fought to defend international norms against a regime which clearly has been enslaving and systematically murdering their own people for going on 4 decades now--as I am sure the Etxean delegates can easily and far more effectively outline than we can from their own first hand knowledge;

Had all this happened, then Kalistan would not have had to be the ones to introduce sanctions against them, which we were also forced to attempt to enforce almost single handedly, due to militant ambivalence by the other nations of the world, who could have helped, but opted instead to actively circumvent those sanctions, so we could try to deny their regime the materials that they used to subsequently murder 30,000 of our citizens while they slept with chemical weaponry. 

Which, we will add, literally nobody --certainly not anyone sitting in this room currently-- nobody that is, with the exception of Kalistan's long standing rivals in Luthori, denounced, or even commented on.  Because like Kalistan, Luthori is a rapacious monster, bent on denying the poor helpless masses any semblance of peace or security, and as such, our relationship cannot possibly be based on humanitarian concerns, but a blood curdling, irreconcilably Manichean rivalry to divide the world between us.

We don't know why the world, save a handful of nations, refused to help us punish the fascists for their wanton and deplorable attacks against the sleeping civilians of Metz-Leonid, Kaliburg, Port Swedes, and Eshar-- Maybe you think we deserved the chemical weapons attacks launched by fascists against sleeping civilians.  Maybe the oppressed nations of the world, that our colleague from South Dovani speaks so eloquently for, secretly wished that Kundrati would have gotten more of us than they were able to.  We will likely never know the truth of that.  What we do know is the world sat by as Kundrati destroyed three of our cities, and Kalistan could count our friends on less than one hand.

But the fact is, only Kalistan, Lodamun, Gaduridos (The Anantonese Empire), Luthori, Mordusia (The Luthorian Commonwealth), Alduria and the brave men and women of Etxea ultimately took a stand against the Fascists, while all those here asking for a world order based on liberal principles stood on the sidelines and contributed nothing.  Will your so beloved liberal world order perform at that same high level of commitment that was demonstrated by its current proponents during the Kundrati War, when you had the opportunity to demonstrate international cooperation to address a global threat, and chose --yes, I say chose-- not to?  Because if so, we are all in trouble.

Put plainly, Kalistan doesn't trust a liberal world order to come to anyone's aid except those from whom some advantage can be gained by the powerful nations of the world, because, as we see from the Kundrati War, not even the liberals really believe in that nonsense ideology known as liberal internationalism.  And a security council made up of the world's powerful nations would necessarily include cynical monsters like Kalistan, who is, whether some wish to admit it or not, one of the most objectively powerful nations in the world at the current moment. 

We find calls for a new planned global order based on explicitly liberal principles like international law now, after all the fighting and dying is over, to be risible at the very least, and note that its biggest champions were themselves absent when they could have actually done some good and helped us and Luthori permanently deal with a major source of conflict and chaos in the world, but instead chose to sit on their hands, and watch us be exactly what they always thought we were anyway, because nobody else was going to, but someone had to. 

Kalistan is ruthless and uncompromising in our own defense.  That is all we are, that is all we have ever been. 

We only hope that the nations of the world consider our proposals.  We are under no illusions that they will adopt them--Kalistan is not well liked, for many reasons, and only some of which are our own authoring, so we obviously don't have a lot of hopes that Kalistan's "positions" will receive much, if any attention here at this conference.  But I can say honestly, and in all fairness to my nation, that we are here, to sit at the table with you not out of a desire to force Kalistani hegemony down everyone else's throats, nor because we feel that there should be some international system that constrains the very sovereignty that the South Dovani speaker centers in their speech, but because we felt that it was important for regional and bilateral relations that Kalistan support Egelion's call. 

In fact, Kalistan has no interest whatsoever in continuing to involve itself in the conflicts of other continents, and would simply like other continents to restrain themselves similarly in the Anantonese Region.  Unlike most of our colleagues sitting here in this room, we are the ones who have paid dearly, and far too recently, for our failure to adopt that policy, and we would like to learn from our mistakes.