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sup /tg/ I'm interested to see this popping up on my gaming board I've loved for so long. I got my master of arts in International Relations and specialized in security topics so this is actually pretty well trod territory to me. It's interesting to see the opinions and analysis from you guys, who I can only assume have a cursory or nonprofessional interest in these areas: that is to say post-colonial civil war zones.
It's fascinating don't you concur to observe these places, these people, in real life the battle for survival and resource dominance. The almost primal competition as society breaks down, and those that still struggle onwards to rebuild their shattered state. North Korea is of particular interest to me since I specialize in nuclear security and China as my focus for professional and academic work. But it never hurts to be able to branch out and studying resource locii and conflict zones simply because they provide real time tests of our theories for state and group actions. Conflicts such as these demean humanity as a whole, we see the most incredible and uncanny acts that we thought we were above. But this is our species, and these lives that we think remote and shattered are very much so connected to the games of power and control that we in the west are part of. I won't moralize on these points, I think it's ignorant to assume that there can be a stark moral compass for decisions that affection millions of lives at once. And I'd be a hypocrite not to admit that I have enjoyed the good fortune I had to grow up in the dominant state/economy of the world today, I'm lucky to say the least. But I think it's important that we don't lose sight that these things are occuring around the world still, there are legacies to exploitation, colonization, and military occupation that we don't often consider because we are so removed. That's all.
Once again /tg/ is the best board |