Game News Colony Ship RPG Update #8: The Jackson Riflemen

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I was reading a book on the Punic War (Rome vs Carthage): so there was a neutral city-state; half the city leaders were leaning toward Rome, the other half were pro-Carthage. Rome "helped" their supporters to organized a revolt and hang the influential pro-Carthage citizens for treason. So Hannibal and his army show up to sort it out, but the Roman envoys stop him and say "whoa, bro, you're about to interfere into the internal affairs of this here totally independent city-state. not cool!" Hannibal says "it was an independent state until you arseholes cooked this fucking uprising, so get the fuck out of my face". The Roman envoys leave and where do they go? To Carthage. To complain about Hannibal's destabilizing actions and pour buckets of money into the pockets of the city leaders who liked money more than they liked Hannibal.

The methods, the reasons, even the arguments, those stated for the plebs and those offered in private, didn't change at all and can be easily applied to today's conflicts. Why? Because while tech changes, people don't. The human nature didn't change much since we discovered fire and I suspect it wouldn't change much in the future. Why would it?

Looks like story of Maidan revolt in Urkaine which was organised, financed and supported by US.