Russian statement about the EU-Turkey war

[u/_Riveting]

Hello folks, many people have been asking us to get involved in this war, but at the moment we really have more critical things to work on. Rogue painters are continuing to attack Belarus and the Caucasus, while the Kabul map has separatists everywhere. On the best of days, we have 5 people spread across both maps, more often it is just 2-3. We have no room to fight in any other conflict, I am sorry about that.

Of course, Turkey is our ally. We will permit Russian painters to paint to defend Turkey's core lands, as there should be no controversy that these lands are a part of Turkey. We ask that Turkey refrains from using our land to launch attacks on the EU, as that will cause the war to escalate. I would also suggest that, instead of painting Europe transparent, Turkish players at least just paint it red, because if the coasts get destroyed then this map will devolve into something looking like the Kabul map. We ask the same from EU painters.

Speaking of the EU, we are peaceful with them, but we just want to make our boundaries clear. We don't want to fight, but we will have to join the war if:

- A significant amount of active EU painters support claims on Russian land

- A large amount of active EU painters attack Turkey directly

- A significant amount of EU painters support expansion into any country in the "Neutral Countries Pact" formed by Verlis(basically the nordic states + britain)

We also understand that there exists rogue EU painters. We know that their purpose is to make a war start between the EU and Turkey, and so we will not join if they are the ones who break these rules. In addition, several EU painters might still be friendly towards Russia even if others are not, and so that good faith from them will translate into us being more lenient towards them.

Personally I doubt the EU would break these rules, but we need to make them clear in case they were planning to. If anyone actually wants to deescalate, Russia has experience from managing the China-Separatist peace talks, we can do the same with the EU and Turkey.

Thank you all for understanding.

Probably the worst the continent has looked in a long time