How can you even imply you are neutral? You have shown that at the first instance of losing a war you will ask the UIF for help, its a bit silly calling yourself neutral when we all know you are not.
of course we asked the UIF for help
when our choices were
"ask the UIF for help who you are on very good diplomatic terms with"
or
"die to half the factions on the map, who are attacking you because you are on very good diplomatic terms with the UIF"
we chose to survive
now, however, we are neutral, so if the mercs want to continue buying weapons from us, they can.