EDIT: I realize this is off topic, but tried to keep it somewhat related to CIV anyway
Plus i think it is an interesting perspective to imagine what you would do in CIV given the current situation would happen in one of your games.
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Gabryel Karolin said:
So where are the WMDs then?
Oh, forgot, theyre in Syria and Iran now, wonder where theyll move when those countries are occupied too
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The idea of this mod made me think about the current world politics / economic situation from the CIV standpoint.
"I'm playing as the USA, being a major military / scientific power, controlling the continent. Other countries occupy asia / africa / europe, with the european countries allied and having mutual prot agreements signed.
One turn, my oil source runs out, and the Arabs / Ottomans refuse to trade their excess oil for my burgers.
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Reloaded a few turns earlier, and started an invasion against them (they had no real military to speak of), so i was able to secure a few more oil sources by the time my original one ran out.
I was able to convince the Europeans - and my own people -, that this war was made necessary by the ever increasing terro *cough* barbarian activity on my continent, so war weariness was manageable.
While i was at war, the european countries continued to develop their economy. Looking at how much they have, and how fast they advance i soon realized, that unless i act, they'll take the lead farily quickly.
The next logical step, given i want to win this game, is to take the europeans while i can, before they outresearch / outproduce me."
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Conclusions
1) If the USA intends to keep its leading position, he has to act actively against the EU soon. Otherwise EU will take over. Thats the next logical step for winning the 'big' game.
10) Luckily, life is a bit more complicated than CIV, so the above decision is not that easy to make
11) Sadly, Bush is warmongering enough to still decl. war just to keep on fighting.
Those who believe, that wars can be fought over abstract 'terms' like terrorism, obviously have no clue about how human mentality works. Soldiers do fight for causes, leaders do create/fabricate causes to make the soldiers fight for resources.
Who knows how many million US citizens France killed during the last 50 years? I bet the US Intelligence keeps a few documents on the French genocide / world domination plans, just in case they need it. (Obviously France never did/does that, but in light of recent events: who cares? A document is reason enough for fighting. If its not true, then they can still apologies when the fighting is finished.)
I can do nothing else but quote from one of my favorite intro videos:
"War.
War never changes.
The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth.
Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory.
Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower.
But war never changes.
In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired.
Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons.
Petroleum and uranium.
For these resources, China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada, and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarreling, bickering nation-states, bent on controlling the last remaining resources on Earth.
In 20??**, the storm of world war had come again.
In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders.
And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise."
** The intro had '2077', but i wouldn't be suprised, if we would see a massive, world-wide conflict well before that...
As much as i would love to see a united earth, the future suggested by that quote above is much more likely to happen. I just hope i do not live long enough to find out.
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BTW: This being my first post, lemme say hello to this great community.
(There are 10 types of people. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.)
