Do you really think that you're fooling anyone?

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Probably. But by a thin margin.
It's not unreasonable to consider it cause for war footing, or reason to pick one nation over another to attack.

But I don't think ignoring an offer to a NAP is an act of war. I consider an act of war something that requires retaliation, such as ghouls or assassins, and results in you suffering harm.

If ignoring nations was an act of war, why guess where America would be, these last few years.

[Tichy]

Agree with Lazy P: I would take ignoring a request for NAP as a presumption that war *will* occur, but not the same as a declaration that we are at war. Just that we aren't not at war.

...which I think is my guess for that last bit as well.