User:Sycamore/How to become an unproductive predator nation
“Really, there's no need for any of this!”
“Better to die on ones feet than to live on ones knees”
Of all the ailments in social contract, no doubt this achicvemtn is the greatest: To have loopy politicians oversee your industrial collapse whilst pursuing initimidation and harrassment of other weaker nation states.
Oh by Jingo![edit | edit source]
Like all of the empires in history, a curcial zero point is often reached between a question of balance in the world and the need of some nations ot feel they have a right to moralise based a violent and adveturist foregn polcy arudn the globe.
However the usual trick is the merger of company as an arm of the state whereby multnational (formally trading companies in 19th century Europe). For nations the models have ususlaly been Roe, and like Rome wars, espcially small wars have been ideal. Ideally
Astroturfing in democracies[edit | edit source]
One of the most crucial areas to understand is that the wars and performance that an unproductive predator nation undertakes is at home. It is sadly people and not machines that build the who keep the whole charade going.
Utililising the people power is essential and this, by virtue of technology itself, come in the form of the media....
Intimidation and harassment in police states[edit | edit source]
The alure of madness[edit | edit source]
“To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace”
It's a mean world out there... and it needs a nation that can be mean and perhaps a little psychotic back. This is where you can really shine