In yesterday's simulation my group, group 4, was attacked. Why was my country attacked? The rationale behind this, according to other countries, was because my country seemed that it had a strong military power, yet is was the least powerful- making it the easy one to fight. Also, a point was brought up that the other countries were afraid of my country because we were not making allies with anyone, so it seemed as though we may actually attack someone. This didn't particularly make sense to me, why did they think they my country would attack? Why didn't they just come talk to my group and try to negotiate?
Also, according to the other groups, they felt secure because they had allies, but may I ask why they felt so secure by this? In the beginning of the simulation Mr.Stewart clearly said that people could lie, he never said the treaties would be properly enforced by him. Why was it that the groups had faith in their allies, but not my group who was quietly sitting in the corner. Many groups argued that the treaties wouldn't e broken because there were fines the country would have to pay if they broke the treaty, but that argument didn't seem too valid. Group 2's leader said that 'ten economic units would be a chip off the shoulder', which meant that they were planning to break off their treaty and pay the minuscule fine that came with it. But what would happen if group two didn't pay the fine? Probably nothing. If group two, the most powerful group, promised their other alliances something if they allowed them to break off from group five (the next smallest group) and they all conquered group five together then group one probably wouldn't lose much, if anything.
So, why was it that groups were afraid of the quiet, unpowerful Group 4 but felt secure under their treaties?
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