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The federal government immediately imposed an embargo on all shipments to and from the Bours, but not on petroleum tankers. SRB moved quickly to collect royalties from oil companies operating within its borders. When Afragola Oil agreed to this request in late June, the federal government extended its blockade to oil. The blockade, accepted by most foreign actors, played a decisive role in putting the SRB at a disadvantage from the start of the war. Although the very young nation had a chronic shortage of weapons to go to war, it was determined to defend itself. Although there was a certain sympathy for Bours on the international scene, the Republic gained limited recognition.

 

 

Several peace talks were held, the most important of which was held in Jabrel, (the Jabrel Agreement). There were several accounts of what happened to Jabrel. Svista accused the federal government of failing to keep its promises, while the federal government accused Svista of distortions and half-truths. Madek Beta got the deal to turn Afragola into a confederation rather than a federated state. Madek was warned by his advisers that oversight did not understand the difference and would renege on the agreement. When this happened, Beta considered both a failure by Oversight to keep the spirit of the Jarbel agreement and a lack of integrity on the part of the Bours Socialist Republic in the negotiations for a united Dømin. The advisors of Svista, on the contrary, believed that he had issued what was politically feasible in fulfillment of the Jarbel agreement. The eastern region was very ill-equipped for warfare, overwhelmed and unarmed by the Phoenixians, but it had the advantages of fighting at home, the support of most Orientals, determination and the use of limited resources.