Over the course of their various games, I had played everything from dukes to galactic viceroys, but my road to victory was always the same: seize resources, always militarise, and be willing to make strategic sacrifices.
Over the course of its various games, I had played everything from dukes to galactic viceroys, but my road to victory was always the same: Seize resources, always militarize, and be willing to make strategic sacrifices.
It is coming from wealthy donors, from extortion, from kidnapping and from seized resources such as oil fields and smuggling networks.
"This entity has been uniquely vulnerable to a city administrator seizing resources without the checks and balances of an electorate".
With the Soviets wary of mounting tensions with Germany and the Japanese planning to take advantage of the European War by seizing resource-rich European possessions in Southeast Asia, the two powers signed the Soviet Japanese Neutrality Pact in April 1941.
The nomadic economy also needed to develop similar institutions to mediate inter-group conflicts over pasturage, as well as organize armed forces for defensive purposes or to seize material resources, property, and population.
The wars the West has fought in the Middle East over the past decade and more are often attacked as being little more than attempts to seize natural resources, but I'm sure this isn't the whole story.
We'll no longer have the spectacle of a Larry Summers, President Obama's outgoing Director of the White House National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, overtly declaring the Keynesian axiom that if consumers don't spend on a scale satisfactory to such economic commissars as himself then the government must seize their resources and spend them for them.
The sanctions were aimed at pressuring Japan to abandon its involvement in China; instead, the Japanese government planned to seize the resources of South-East Asia from the European nations by force.
He also repeated the dubious claim that he had opposed the Iraq War "from the beginning" and criticized both the war and the subsequent withdrawal of US troops, before saying that "we should have kept the oil in Iraq"—a long-standing position of his that, on its face, amounts to an endorsement of the idea that the US should engage in wars to seize foreign resources.
The strategic choices discussed in the West today resemble quite closely the strategies developed in Europe during past centuries to deal with resource scarcities: to overcome them by means of market mechanisms leading to efficiency improvements and substitution, by global trade enhancing resource availability, or by forcefully seizing foreign resources.
