The GTVA needs to
- Accept the UEF is not a threat (or eliminate what was a threat from them) , and try and make-do with its ideology
The problem from the GTVA's point of view is that the Ubuntu ideology is extremely appealing to the people of their practically bankrupt government. The GTVA can't risk its populace being converted to Ubuntu, cuz that would leave everyone defenseless (again, from their point of view). The solution to the problem was (apparently) war, to paint the Ubuntu ideology as a primitive ideal that can't work in the real world, and then crush it. The GTVA and UEF can't coexist.
- Convince the Elders that protection against the Shivans is a mighty big priority, and that their hippy bull**** can stay the **** at home when the Shivans come out to play. Resulting in the two coexisting and working together in the event of a third incursion.
The Elders are special and all that. In their divine wisdom they'd probably refuse to allow their populace to become subjects of a militaristic regime that clearly does not work (the NTF, Capella, colonial strife and basically the crisis the entire Terran species is experiencing all point to the GTVA being a fundamentally flawed regime).
The Elders, if they are communicating with a higher power (Vishnans?) probably won't come down to the GTVA's level of thinking, since they're enlightened and all that. Likewise, the GTVA won't see things from the Elders' point of view because they're not likely to believe the inane rantings of a group of old farts any time soon.
The UEF needs to
- Accept the GTVA's way of doing things, and work together for the better of the two.
As I said above, the Elders simply can't do this. The Ubuntu ideology is a polar opposite to the GTVA's hard-power militaristic regime. From the UEF's point of view, the GTVA, while large and equipped with a massive military, is really struggling to keep itself together and is, like the GTA before it, on the verge of internal collapse. It's only managed to maintain its integrity by crushing colonial rebellions through the use of force.
The UEF on the other hand doesn't have this problem, barring the fringe Kupier factions that aren't really much of a threat anyway. The Elders have been able to keep their population under control simply because their regime works.
- Understand the Shivans from the Alliance's point of view, and agree to help out to the best of their ability in terms of a Shivan invasion. (since well, that's one of the key points here.)
The Elders are enlightened.
They probably understand the Shivans better than the GTVA do. The GTVA don't know **** about the Shivans apart from the fact that they're invincible and can't be stopped. There's no reason why the Elders should bend over to this way of thinking.
- Stop their state sponsored terrorism.
Yeah, the UEF isn't without fault in this area either.
Both sides need to have some kind of free information exchange, so we won't have black ops events going on every two seconds between the two sides.
An information exchange would help, yeah. I think it'd allow both sides to better understand each other. However, I doubt it'd solve the problem.
Some of the points are fundamentally flawed, but eh.
Yeah. The most fundamentally flawed point is the entire GTVA's reasoning.
In Capella, the GTVA saw the true power of the Shivans. What we've learned from Capella is that the Shivans can't be stopped with military force. And yet, the GTVA continues to try and build up its military to fight something that clearly can't be fought on equal terms.
