SIN War Declaration Against SHARK

Legoman, Hansa neighbors VIC and Shark so it is my concern post-war. If they Shark/Vic win we'll be removing the land claim since it's not worth the hassle dealing with superpower alliances who don't even recognize them. The terrain on Hansa's land claim isn't even that good though, so I don't see why military players would want to settle here anyways. And I'm just saying if vic sent players to shark rather than having their whole alliance get involved, it wouldn't look as bad to the illyriad community(as in terms of 2vs.1 rather than 1vs.1).

well as an officer in T-SC, this is the first i am hearing about an arrangement between us and SIN with us reducing sharks troop count before SIN declared.  i know i have stated previously that i was a junior officer in T-SC but about the time of the declaration T-SC was going through a major officer revamp and i basically was appointed to speak for T-SC while we decided who was actually in charge(the reason i was appointed is because i took myself out of the running completely so for a few days there i was basically running T-SC while we were hashing out who would lead us in the future) In fact the decision for T-SC declaring was completely my call and i made it during that leadership change over due to the fact that our previous leadership had agreed to back any DSD alliance in BL that had made a land claim if the backing was requested.

now if TVM made an agreement with SIN idk but that really doesnt matter to me because we made an agreement with TVM to back them if they requested our help, which they did.  as for the surrender, that was TVMs call, they decided to ask for terms and called the ceasefire, since we were only in the war at their request we honored it and when shark offered us terms we could accept we ended the war.  in fact most of my members were not ready for the war to end, the only reason the terms were accepted was because 1. they were acceptable, 2. the officers of T-SC had RL issues going on and could not successfully run a warring alliance with those issues, 3.  the rest of the DSD and SIN both informed us they would not back us in a solo war with shark if the rest of the DSD south alliances signed the treaty. and 4.  we knew we were not capable of bringing the war to any shark enclaves, we could keep them out of our area for a time but we did not have the troop mix to place sieges by ourselves outside of SE BL(which shark exoed all of their cities out of this region within 2 weeks of us declaring war).  

apon the dissolution of T-SC and merger into STORM i sent feelers out to SIN to see if they would accept any of our members that still wanted to fight shark because i could see that the next war shark had was going to be with SIN.  i was informed of conditions to join that none of my members could meet in the forseeable future and i took that as a nice way of them telling me "f*** no."  but then again those conditions did highlight the major difference between T-SC and SIN in settling the SE BL, we were both military based alliances but had different city placement requirements due to the way we were both planning on handling wars.  so it could have been simply that and they were completely willing to take my members.

now as for the timing of SINs declaration, i had a conversation within 24 hours of T-SC declaring on shark with a major SIN figure were he complained that we beat SIN to the punch, so based on that convo i am pretty sure the only reason that DSD south went against shark first is because we declared first otherwise it may have been SIN vs Shark and if SIN left anything for DSD south(which honestly i doubt, even with VIC in the war now i still think SIN will win it because VIC has the same problems SHARK has with waging a war in TBL, simply because DSD south could not take advantage of those weaknesses doesnt mean SIN cant) then we would have taken them on.  in fact during the entire newlands war all my regular SIN contacts were constantly asking me to "end the war already so we can take a turn" which tells me they really did want a 1v1 match because if they just wanted to attack shark why wait for them to make peace with DSD south?  in fact most of shark leadership has already commented they were suprised it was DSD south that declared first and not SIN.  

and yes i did take advantage of the fact that shark was worried about SIN entering the war when i took the 2 SS mines from them.  i knew T-SC did not have the troops to defend both mines and still fulfill our troop garantes to TVM so i leaked the arrival times for our clearing forces to SIN on the one mine we were not planning on capturing ourselves and i timed the capture to coincide with a SIN/T-SC temp confed due to a terraform/exo on a planned city placement that was agreed to before the war.  simply to make shark think we were trying to drag SIN into the war even though i knew SIN would not join this war until after DSD south had come to terms with shark(i did ok this ploy with SIN leadership first and they were like "will it piss of shark?  then sure lets go for it").  i already had a discussion with Hal about this, he believes that is an unacceptable ploy in a war while i think anything that can get the job done works but that is between the 2 of us and i am pretty sure we can both see the others point of view whether we agree or not.

now to bring this back to the post i am quoting, no i dont think this was a planned op, i think shark has just pissed off too many TBL only players/alliances with their actions and the repercussions are all hitting them at the same time, honestly my question would be, "if SIN doesnt teach them a lesson then who is the next TBL powerbloc that will try?"

is this for a 2 years old kid? 

Because it seems like I am reading a bed time story...