I agree, friend.
But first, a rather... stupid issue. America's junk food influence is reaching my country, and since America has been bothering me greatly since I started attending meetings, I need advice as to how to deal with him.
I remember when Ita-chan used to streak in your territory; how did YOU deal with that? Is going trigger happy on America practical?
Your comrade/ally,
Nikola/Croatia
Junk food and a country streaking through proclaimed neutral territory during war time are quite different things. As much as I like the idea, I do not think that shooting America would do any good. After all, you promised me not drag us into any unnecessary wars. America, the idiot he may be, is not even as close as cowardly as Italy.
How resilient your population is to junk food influence really depends on how wealthy they are. Fast food is a cheap, yet unhealthy alternative to normal nourishment. My population ranks fourth richest in the world, so they never have problems buying quality food. Plus I have laws in place that help weaken that sort of influence and I give money to the few farmers I have so that they can maintain their businesses and produce organic food for my population. You have a much larger agricultural sector than me, so it should not be a problem to arrange something along those lines. I also advice to regulate the number of fast-food joints that America wants to build, or forbid them altogether if you can manage that.
If there is one thing that can bring down a nation, it is a fat and lazy population. It happened to Rome, it will not happen to us.
Diin Eidgenoss,
Vash/Switzerland