05-25-2018, 12:17 AM
Laeral's diplomats and government officials have something of an inferiority complex about Laeral's place in the world. This is partially due to Laeral's history of being a colony, as well as Laeral's period as a poor and unimportant nation, lasting up until the economic boom in the 1980s. Upon being elected President in 2010, Nicholas Brennan announced that Laeral would pursue a greater role in the world. Aspects of this include an aggressive expansion of the Foreign Service (Laeralian diplomats working abroad), the bid for Laeral's representative to serve as Delegate to the WA, and the recent intervention in the Northeastern Sea. This has led to pushback recently, particularly the Northeastern Sea Crisis, which opposition politicians criticized. Laeral's presidential elections and elections to the National Assembly will take place in late summer, and President Brennan knows that the public doesn't have an appetite for extensive intervention in Lauchenoiria, unless there is an excellent excuse for it.
Nicholas Brennan's government largely feels that intervention in Lauchenoiria is necessary. The governing coalition consists of the Progressives, Conservatives, and Socialists, in that order of importance. The Progressives are largely in favor of diplomatic or military intervention given their support of intervention abroad to promote democracy and human rights (as well as some Progressive leaders understanding that Laura Moore is likely more friendly to Laeralian interests than Suleman Chaher). The Conservatives are generally in favor of intervention, especially given the communist rhetoric spouted by Chaher. The Socialists, however, are opposed, seeing this as an unnecessary and bloody foreign misadventure (and, although they refuse to admit it, it's possible that some of their higher-ups may have sympathies for Chaher's communist ideology).
Nicholas Brennan's government largely feels that intervention in Lauchenoiria is necessary. The governing coalition consists of the Progressives, Conservatives, and Socialists, in that order of importance. The Progressives are largely in favor of diplomatic or military intervention given their support of intervention abroad to promote democracy and human rights (as well as some Progressive leaders understanding that Laura Moore is likely more friendly to Laeralian interests than Suleman Chaher). The Conservatives are generally in favor of intervention, especially given the communist rhetoric spouted by Chaher. The Socialists, however, are opposed, seeing this as an unnecessary and bloody foreign misadventure (and, although they refuse to admit it, it's possible that some of their higher-ups may have sympathies for Chaher's communist ideology).