I said we took on an alliance 2x our size to prove it can be done
You do have to agree that this statement is a bit cheap, seeing as STN have been randomly hitting the largest members of boat since Enmity went down, which is a fair few days before this topic was opened.
So yeah, you took on an alliance 2x your size, but it was an alliance where a lot of resources were tied up by having multiple random incomings by STN on their largest members (which probably stopped them from retaliating on any of your attacks).
And before you say "we never asked STN to hit them, what they do is outside our control", that's all quite true, but this was a known factor before you started a war on Boat, so you knew before you took on this "challenge" that it was hardly just you vs an ally 2x your size.
S2N have been hitting us too.
Battle Report - Defending Sir Oggie vs a large SA from S2N
[middle] 50,000,000 allied Psychopathic Android attacked, killing 25,820,391 hostile staff.
[middle] 42,933,199 allied Biker attacked, killing 25,732,976 hostile staff.
[middle] 45,000,054 allied Striker attacked, killing 3,574,022 hostile staff.
[middle] 30,281,097 allied Terrorist attacked, killing 147,497,032 hostile staff.
[middle] 60,000,000 allied Secret Agent attacked, killing 241,781,416 hostile staff.
[middle] 74,205,706 hostile Secret Agent attacked, killing 193,886,568 allied staff.
[middle] 27,504,900 allied Assassin attacked, killing 17,882,555 hostile staff.
[middle] 89,671,261 hostile Assassin attacked, killing 56,966,455 allied staff.
[middle] 12,368,249 allied Hooligan attacked, disabling 4,813,060 hostile staff.
[middle] 124,601,544 allied Terrorist Leader attacked, killing 210,821,181 hostile staff.
[middle] 116,506,998 allied Sorcerer attacked, killing 72,349,608 hostile staff.
[middle] 22,370,568 allied Nutter attacked, disabling 2,086,255 hostile staff.
[middle] 17,433,816 allied Cybernetic Warrior attacked, killing 18,066,976 hostile staff.
[middle] 3,469,642 allied Grenadier attacked, killing 2,093,134 hostile staff.
[middle] 66,343 hostile Ninja attacked, killing 107,473 allied staff.
[middle] 63,355,464 allied Petrol Bomber lobbed Molotov Cocktails and killed 28,507,141 hostile staff.
[middle] 9,749,048 allied Apache Longbow attacked, killing 25,293,697 hostile staff.
[middle] 43,423,982 allied Marine attacked, killing 16,375,770 hostile staff.
[middle] 22,995,396 allied Jeep attacked, killing 3,933,117 hostile staff.
[middle] 2,292,523 allied HQ Humvee attacked, killing 1,327,500 hostile staff.
[middle] 15,875,331 allied Tyrant Drone attacked, killing 21,844,680 hostile staff.
Disabled: 6,899,315 [£193,159,352,800] enemies disabled.
Died: 862,901,196 [£18,254,931,842,400] enemies dead. 250,960,496 [£3,438,372,995,900] friendlies dead.
Getting inc from higher allies happens. It just doesn't always turn out so pretty