General disclaimer, i have not read IW and all my information is from the thread here.
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Kurt Feltenberger wrote: > >The way I read it, this 'world government' started out as a fig leaf > >to cover the power-grab by the first world. Two generations later, > >the numbers of the third world started to make themselves felt. If > >anything, there are too few Chinese and Indians ... > > If the first world, specifically the US and EU, were the driving > force, then I can see good old fashioned nepotism and nationalism > favoring those nations while passing over the others. > Lobbies in the first world keep "dependents" originating from the third world? Like "You still owe us the costs of your first world education, if you do something we don't like we might ask you to pay it back". > No offense to any Spaniards on the list, but I wouldn't count Spain > as being a first world country. Five hundred years ago, yes, but not > in the 21st century. Second world, absolutely. > Spain is EU. Assuming a united EU military or at least some all EU-units for special types of operation like space stuff, spaniards can come on an EU ticket. And it is not so uncommon that proportionally more soldiers come from poorer parts of a country/nation/state. > And of them, only one comes from a country that's currently got > anything in the way of a military that would form the core of > anything that might be considered a "world military". I'll give > Japan it's due, for Japanese nationals, as they have the economy and > ambition, but the others? I just can't see it. > EU people (in that case a Spaniard) can be put in for idustrial support for the space programm (even if there is more industry in Germany, France, Skandinavia, GB or wherever then in Spain) If you can still make money from oil, Arabic countries might simply buy their representants in. One mans groundfloor is an other mans earthmissle @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Johannes Trimmel @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
