[Discuss] cheating or just smart?

[Matt Runyon]

Jeff J. Wilson wrote:
>
> How is that power-gaming? Deceitful, yes. Evil, possibly. But it gets 
> around an IC treaty, not any game mechanics. Things like that happened 
> in real life, too. <wryly points to his own country financing puppet 
> states to fight communism, and to the Crusader states for more period 
> examples>
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>
> Chopping off a portion of your country so they can fight without hinderance
> of a treaty is believable?
>   
Um...Yes?  Why not?  Plausible deniability if they lose.  "We didn't 
attack them, it was those war-mongering separatists!"