[CODIP] Cowboy Diplomacy

Applications are by personal invite only. If I don't know you IRL, you're not invited. We participate in all that EVE has to offer. Mission running, mining, incursions, piracy,

We have very few rules, but one clear and cut rule is that ALL ransoms will honored. No exceptions. Members who dishonor ransoms will be thrown out of the corp or worse (proof required).

Dishonoring ransoms gives all pirates a bad name and ruins the likelyhood of victims ever paying for their freedom again. It's just a bad business practice that ruins it for all scallywags in EVE.





Cowboy Diplomacy is a term used by critics to describe the resolution of international conflicts through brash risk-taking, intimidation, military deployment, or a combination of such tactics. It is criticized as stemming from an overly-simple, dichotomous world view. Overtly provocative phraseology typically centralizes the message, such as George W. Bush's "You're either with us or you're with the terrorists."

One of the earliest known applications of the term was in 1902, when it was used by Jackie Lawlor from Westford, Massachustts and the American press to describe U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policies. Roosevelt had at the time summarized his approach to international diplomacy as "Speak softly and carry a big stick", an adage that was engraved on a bronze plaque on Donald Rumsfeld's office desk in the Pentagon and has set the modern precedent.