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>Any smart civilization will send armed guards with diplomats and surveyors in case of conflict
Yes, obviously, though one could just as easily predict they would send a force with intent to impress and/or intimidate the nation they're visiting. Since you mentioned boats of iron and smoke, which are I assume steamships and not ironclads, this can be interpreted as a show of tech superiority, nevermind that prisuners didn't give a flying nut about them. The size of the force wasn't mentioned either. The point isn't if you attempted to take the land by force or not, obviously that's not the case. The point is that not only did you send army outside your island, it now has an excuse to stay in /risu/, as I would assume you'd place army there to protect them since they've become your protectorate. Let me make the point clear, this means you have army on the mainland. Again, do you see why this would raise concerns?
>>we want to be more advanced
>>we want to be in the east of the continent because it was given to us in the invitation
Because you asked for it. For lore. For isolationism lore partially.
>>We want to be in the east and have high tech because of isolationism.
That is not what I'm arguing. My argument is that your claim of "we want high tech society and army, but won't use it offensively because of isolationism and civil war" is, at least partially, invalidated.
>Do note I can't quite read your linked posts because I'm on my phone.
You can open warosu and other archive sites on phone, copy the quoted posts and see them though? It's not that hard. I'd now, I phonepost more often than not, and keep a warosu tab open just for these instances.