Prime Minister Tomasek
WAR IMPLICATIONS
Presidential Palace, October 29, 5473: After a meeting of the Royal Council concerning legislative initiatives, ZLATENICO OKO asked Prime Minister Milos Tomasek what was likely to happen to Majatra because of the recent war between the Yeudi and Lourennais forces, and Tomasek replied:
As you know, we have been preoccupied with dealing with internal affairs for some time and were quite surprised by the outbreak of actual armed conflict between Moledet Medinat and Royaume Uni de Lourenne. When Jumhuriat al-Badara and the Kundrati Union became involved a wider war seemed likely, and when Jumhuriat al-Badara became concerned about being invaded, we offered military assistance for its defense.
The State Directorate for Intelligence (DROD) reports that the war is winding down and likely many issues will be resolved.
The most obvious results were trade disruption and economic fallout from the two most powerful economies going to war with each other. Less obvious is the Majatran Security Cooperation Organization has likely been damaged. We believe in the long run it is still viable but that is only our opinion.
It is obvious in the wake of this conflict our rearmament program must continue. The next focus will be building another aircraft carrier, additional troop sea transports and additional combat aircraft.
Asked by ZLATENICO OKO if nuclear weapons was a likelihood, Tomasek replied:
DROD intelligence is six nations have definitely built nuclear weapons in the past, and two more claim to have, one of whose claims are definitely baseless. Only one of these is close to being able to afford to do it again anytime soon.
Three others have been in a position to develop a nuclear weapons program but have not done so. Two of these are still in that position and have the economic resources to start to commence to begin the arduous process.
One hopes they will abide by the will of the people of Terra and not do so. We have no intention of restarting the construction of nuclear warheads.