Governor-General Ewald Raises Concerns Over Hanzen
Hulstrian Governor-General Says Indrala's Foreign Policy "Not Sensible"
Kien, Hulstria- With the Imperial Crownlands of Greater Hulstria just coming off the death of Emperor Alexander I and the introduction of the new Monarch under Emperor Godric II, the government of Hulstria is facing a new challenge; no not getting adjusted to a new sovereign but to deal with the recent unprovoked invasion of the independent nation of Hanzen, located at the tip of south-western Dovani by military forces from the communist regime in the State of Indrala and calls by former leaders to act on this issue. The invasion, more than likely fueled by the anti-Hulstrian, anti-imperialist rhetoric coming out of the government of Indrala, has drawn many in not just Greater Hulstria but around Terra to raise not only eyebrows but grave concerns. The supposed anti-imperialist "Zen-Socialist" movement has been going on almost a year now verbally attacking various foreign nations and even expelled at one point Hulstrian and Kafuristan diplomats residing in that island country, going as far as permanently closing and possibly destroying the embassies of those respective nations; with communist Indrala getting almost no attention from the outside world up until this point, this invasion many say is just an attempt for the communists there to save face and to show that they mean business, even if their invasion basically contradicts all their Foreign Ministry’s calls for isolationism and anti-imperialism on the world stage. While the communists in Indrala did attempt to legitimize their invasion by “taking it away from imperialist Talmori forces” and "Hanzen was under de-facto control by Indrala for awhile", they failed to realize that Hanzen was no longer jointly ruled by Talmoria and Indrala nor was it under "de-facto" control of Indrala, with it becoming an independent nation a decade or two ago thus again the so called anti-imperialists did a very imperialist thing by seizing Hanzen leading to more questions than answers on the exact structure of this country's foreign policy.
Governor-General of Greater Hulstria Friedrich Ewald II in a special press conference yesterday afternoon in Kien spoke about the recent events in Hanzen and touched on the foreign policy of the Indralan regime. He first noted a moment of silence for the deceased Alexander and presumed to go on with the rest of his conference; Ewald, who called the Hanzen invasion “completely disgusting”, said that Hulstria at this point is going through their current options and the domestic government of the Imperial Crownlands is meeting to discuss this to work out an official stance towards all this. The Governor-General said that Indrala is “walking very thin ice” with their aggressive foreign policy and instead of them “building a glorious socialist paradise where the fountain of youth is found in every tree”, they are “isolating and creating very negative images” of themselves on the world stage. “Hanzen is an independent nation with their own government and own people, Indrala is putting unnecessary military force upon them,” said Friedrich Ewald. “Indrala already have a sizeable colonial stake in southern Dovani, this aggressive expansion was unprovoked and stupid; Indrala is digging a very big hole for them by going out both verbally and militarily attacking nations, I don’t know if they will get themselves out of that hole and build some common sense”.
Ewald continued on by saying “Hulstria is very concerned as am I; we are concerned about the state of which those people are being subject to, we’re concerned about our allies who are in their and their interests in the region as their safety as well as ours”. Indrala, said Ewald, should have never went into this venture and suggested by leaving Hanzen for it to become independent once again, the island nation “may still have a chance to not be looked at as the pariah of Terra”. The domestic government as mentioned is going to meet on this matter and Hulstria as a whole to possibly come up with a single, united stance; the Monarch, in particular the Emperor Godric II, has not released a statement on this nor has any other royal member of the Rothingren-Traugotts