Austria officially joins the Southern Maritime Defense

After the recently announced changes concerning alliances, /country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7achad to search it's place once again in this rapidly shifting political landscape. A lot of discussions and exploratory talks followed, we were waging our options carefully and had multiple internal votes to finally come to a conclusion. Our membership in https://app.warera.io/alliance/6a2b13879c8c99640b9c4963 convinced us that neutrality isn't the correct path for us and that we need reliable alliance members.

But during this shift from neutrality to being part of an influential alliance, we also build up our top MU https://app.warera.io/mu/69e67fdb8515e0b0715f4623 and got a taste for efficient perma war builds and merc life. Our support was especially appreciated by https://app.warera.io/alliance/6a29edc6ee031e842c839766 countries, which we fought a lot for, to protect the production sites in https://app.warera.io/country/683ddd2c24b5a2e114af1609 and https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac829.

When it became clear that https://app.warera.io/alliance/6a2b13879c8c99640b9c4963 had to split into three to keep up with the demands of this new update, we got approached by https://app.warera.io/user/69a5cfe665f1b8bd9492123a who sensed the opportunity to win Austria over for the https://app.warera.io/alliance/6a29edc6ee031e842c839766 and secure our services for his alliance.

With this offer in mind and being certain that territorial expansion won't be the destiny of https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7ac in the near future we made the decision to join the https://app.warera.io/alliance/6a29edc6ee031e842c839766 and step closer to our old allies https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac829, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac87d and our new allies https://app.warera.io/country/683ddd2c24b5a2e114af1609.

We didn't make this decision lighthearted, especially because we didn't want to leave any of our allies in https://app.warera.io/alliance/6a2b13879c8c99640b9c4963 behind. But right now it feels like the necessary strategic decision to act in the best interests of https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7ac.

We feel sorry for this unexpected leave from https://app.warera.io/alliance/6a2b13879c8c99640b9c4963 and will keep making efforts to maintain good relations with every member of this alliance, which really became dear to our heart.