I assume this was to make a point about the West's divisions of African and Middle Eastern regions. But this map still has way more cultural awareness than the West did when drawing their straight lines.
There was a post, probably by Basedball I think, about how Europe would look like if it was colonized by Europe, but instead of being the same borders but all square, was actually a funny map where for example south italians, greeks and turks were the same country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya%E2%80%93Switzerland_relations
there was a diplomatic crisis between the two nations the time
he was a complicated guy. definitely socialist.
but he did shady stuff, a lot of cooperating with NATO, allegedly dictatorial in his country, and a few pointless wars with Libya's neighbors.
despite this Libya had the highest quality of life in Africa. Gaddafi took oil revenue and actually invested it in the country instead of doing gulf state bullshit. healthcare, home ownership, irrigation and shit. he's cool for that alone, and the West's vilification & actions against him were fully motivated by the fact Libya had oil it wasn't letting them steal.
“Bird Flu, Swine Flu...What’s next?? Fish Flu??” Was hilarious and oddly prophetic.
serious question, why don't 3rdies just ask China to put a little nuclear base on their soil as a treat so that this stuff doesn't happen anymore
the Chinese dont want to do that. the time the USSR tried something like that the US proved it was willing to kill us all so...
When the US killed him slavery came back to Libya. Good place to start investigating
no more tiny countries hidden between relevant countries. looking at you andorra, belgium, switzerland, liechtenstein
Andorra's cool
all the shops there sell is Tobacco, Huge bottles of alcohol and pork legs
fun times to be had
from what I remember Belgium exists only for the purpose of being a buffer state between France and the Netherlands. get rid of it
While I'm happy to take things away from people, I'm loathe to give anything to Italians
: D Super excited for the expanded and voice acted version releasing this month that's free for existing owners. More voice acting and 4 new major political quests, it's low key the most exciting thing on my calendar.
I was unaware a new version was coming out, I just played the game for the first time a couple months ago. Now I’m gonna have to play it again!
My only regret is I obviously went full communism builder in my first playthrough, and now with the new evidently robust (they even change the user interface?) political quests I'm torn between... Failing to build communism again, or opt for one of the other three inferior options for new content
I feel like it will be hard to resist choosing the communist dialogue options again lol
I may roleplay a completely delusional rockstar style libertarian, but even in a fantasy picking the fascist options is troubling to my dumb sensitive brain
Also make sure to split Romansh speakers into all 4 countries and ignore any demands for recognition of culture or language.
I think it's more dividing up the banks than the land that would be the problem
While this is a good proposal I'm generally opposed to giving any land whatsoever to G*rmany :germany-cool:
even betterer take: bavaria, provence, england, and siciliy all become independent countries
